If you're new to our site, please consider subscribing to our full RSS feed. Subscribe now, and you will get an offer that's only available to folks who read our feed! Some would argue that, in order to more rigorously protect children, social networking sites should be more aggressive in their use of age verification. [...]

As indicated in our introductory piece, this will be the first of a three part series on the cyber-bullies, trash-texting and happy slapping. While every generation seems to find its own way of “doing its own thing,” the recent popularity of social networking, absent responsible background checks, seems to have placed countless children and [...]

In a perfect world (yeah, right), parents would know what their kids were up to 24 hours a day, health care would be universally available, and a gallon of gas would cost no more than a gallon of water. OK, back to reality. We don’t live in a perfect world, few of us [...]

This is a continuation of my previous post on “Growing up with Facebook, Part 1.” Where I left off at, I was explaining how . . . “Nowadays, virtually all kids have cell phones, many of them have computers, and they’re now able to make and stay in relationships, using Facebook and other social [...]

I’d like to pass on some things that have crossed my mind since I’ve gotten into Facebook. The more I thought about it, the more I wrote, so I’ve decided to break this up into two different posts. This is the first one, and it basically lays out a framework for the points [...]

Insofar as Facebook has become a sprawling, social networking community . . . . . . it’s (might as well say) inevitable that some people will act in ways that will annoy fellow members. So, based on online blogs, articles and using Facebook religiously, here are our Top 10 tips on Facebook Etiquette. 1. Don’t be Afraid [...]

Michael Jordan was a phenomenal basketball player in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Many consider him the greatest of all time, and he’s probably best remembered for winning championships and literally “hanging in mid air.” However, I remember Jordan for something else . . . his head fakes. Never before had one player made entire teams look [...]

This article is the last of a three-part discussion on the nature of, and relationship between, cyber-bullies, griefers and the legal concept of harassment. Because the terms “cyber-bully” and “griefer” are often tossed around interchangeably, I began the first part of our discussion by clarifying the term “griefer,” the second part by clarifying “cyber-bully,” and by [...]

This article is the second of a three-part discussion on the nature of, and relationship between, cyber-bullies, griefers and the legal concept of harassment. Because the terms “cyber-bully” and “griefer” are often tossed around interchangeably, I began the first part of our discussion by clarifying the term “griefer,” and explaining when and under which circumstances the [...]

This article is the first of a three-part discussion on the nature of, and relationship between, cyber-bullies, griefers and the legal concept of harassment. Because the terms “cyber-bully” and “griefer” are often tossed around interchangeably, I’d like to clarify when and under which circumstances they are meaningfully distinguished (at least for our purposes), and when they [...]