From The Blaze: Sexting, or sending sexual text messages to friends, is a surprisingly common phenomenon among the youth. As of 2009, about 20% of teens admitted to “sexting,” according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. In the New York Times, there‘s a sad and shocking story of how sexting altered one young girl’s life. She was [...]

At the Indiana Youth Institute’s recent conference I was introduced to an great, inexpensive, program to help you and your children deal with cyber bullying online. Cyber Bullying Alert is a program you can download and install to your computer. When your child feels that they are being bullied online they can click on the Alert button in the toolbar [...]

Cyber Security Tips describe and offer advice about common security issues for non-technical computer users. Dealing with Cyber bullies Bullies are now taking advantage of technology to intimidate and harass their victims. Dealing with cyberbullying can be difficult, but there are steps you can take. Read the whole article here: http://latest-tech-news-updates.blogspot.com/2010/12/cyber-bullies-security-tips.html

Ninth grade was supposed to be a fresh start for Marie’s son: new school, new children. Yet by last October, he had become withdrawn. Marie prodded. And prodded again. Finally, he told her. “The kids say I’m saying all these nasty things about them on Facebook,” he said. “They don’t believe me when I tell them I’m not on Facebook.” But [...]

Recently I’ve been having a lot of talks with teens and their parents about cell phones. Parenting with cell phones is a new thing. It’s not something we grew up with so I’ve been doing some research on what’s being said about the issue. I’d suggest you check out these sites! Parenting Teens Contract: Cell Phones Common Sense Media Cell [...]

Check out this video from News Channel 15 about what’s happening at the East Noble Middle School. The mother in the video, Robyn Funk, has contacted Zach Hayden, founder of Noble Bully Project, about how we can do more to stop this issue in Noble County. We’ll keep you up-to-date!

In the wake of several high-profile cases of cyber bullying, a Denver-based company has created a Facebook application for youth to report violations to Facebook officials and connect to safety and crisis-support organizations. SafetyWeb’s application, launched Monday, links teens to organizations including the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and Facebook’s abuse [...]

Cyber bullying is a rising issue today, and is one of the biggest fears of parents. There has been an increase in the reported cases of it and to find out more of cyber bullying care had recent carried out a survey in United States to find parents views. In the month of October the experiment was conducted for 3 [...]

It’s no secret that in this age of burgeoning social media, cyber bullying is also on the rise. In response to this issue, MTV has launched an interactive visualisation tool called “Draw Your Line” to help kids band together to fight online abuse. Draw Your Line is a part of MTV’s larger campaign, “A Thin Line,” which focuses on keeping [...]

(Find the original article at http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/07/ways-parents-protect-kids-cyberbullying/) Concerns about cyberbullying have moved back to the front burner amid the agony over a Rutgers University student’s suicide after two fellow students were accused of secretly streaming video of him in a sexual encounter with a man over the Internet. Cyberbullying is particularly scary for parents; it goes beyond simply keeping your kids [...]