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Parents, help the Identity Theft Resource Center by taking a survey on social media & kids

Our friends at the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nationally-recognized non-profit focusing on identity theft, want to learn more about how parents monitor their children’s interaction on social networking sites.

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Facebook privacy settings: own your online presence

A lot has been written in the last couple of days about the Consumer Reports study on Facebook (Facebook is an NCSA Board Member company) users use of privacy settings. According to the report 13 million of Facebook’s 150 million U.S. users don’t use or aren’t aware of Facebook’s privacy settings and some people also engage in other risky behavior, such as posting about their current location, which could provide information to others, say a burglar, that might want to do them harm. And 28 percent shared all, or almost all, of their wall posts with an audience wider than just their friends....

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New guide to Facebook helps school counselors create better digital citizens

The guide has four suggested action items for school counselors: develop school policies, respond to online incidents that impact learning conditions, detect at-risk behavior and learn about technology literacy, online reputation and social awareness.

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