Archive for November, 2006
Video Site “Veoh”: What Parents Should Know
Another video site for parents to keep their eye on. Veoh is a way to post video clips to the Web. Anything from your favorite TV clips to your own, home-grown movies. But like any other site that allows hard-to-monitor content from a wide audience (e.g., YouTube and Myspace), some of the content you find [...]
4 Ways to Protect Your Email Inbox
Everybody knows how annoying, offensive, and downright vulgar spam can be. Here are a few tricks to help you keep these messages from making it to your inbox. Step 1 – Read a site’s privacy policy Just because it says “privacy” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s about protecting yours. Specifically, it’s supposed to tell you how [...]
“I Wish I Could Disappear”: A Victim of Cyberbullying
She said, “I wish I could disappear”. She was the victim of cyberbullying, and one that was victimized in a way you don’t often hear about. Typically you hear of bullies web sites or instant messaging to harass their victims. Even sending emails to them. But in this situation, someone was pretending to be her [...]