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• Growing Up Online

  I tend to play down the effect of computers on kids, probably because my oldest is only 6. But she likes to do stuff on the computer -- take care of her Webkinz, check out PBS websites. I'm fooling myself if I think that's where it all begins and ends. Sooner than I know it, she'll be all over IMing, and Facebook and whatever else will no doubt come along to grab her attention, ask for her personal details, dumb down her education, etc. Tonight, a PBS Frontline airs the documentary Growing Up Online, which looks at all the different angles of kids and the Internet and their parents who are often in the background feeling (as I do) fully in control but actually are not.   Read More... Posted Jan 22 2008, 04:09 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: PBS, internet, internet safety, children and parents, child development, kids health, child abuse prevention, children and media, children and education, documentary, internet goodness, internet scams, child rearing, internet use, frontline, internet and kids

• Update on Megan Meier Story: The Drews, and Making Online Harassment a Crime

  Since the story of 13-year-old Megan Meier's suicide broke, the lives of Lori and Curt Drew have gotten real different. Lori Drew was the neighbor who created, along with an 18-year-old employee, a fictitious profile of a boy named "Josh" on MySpace. Megan considered Josh her boyfriend, and Lori Drew, her daughter, and the employee sent messages to Megan as Josh. When "Josh" abruptly broke off the relationship, saying he heard she wasn't nice to her friends, and others joined the online fray, sending insulting messages to Megan, she went upstairs to her bedroom and hung herself. Lori and Curt Drew's personal information was widely circulated on the internet... Read More... Posted Dec 01 2007, 09:09 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: MySpace, legislation, suicide, megan meier, internet use, hoax, lori drew