Description: CNN’s Samuel Burke looks at the new Snapchat Leaked website, which reveals people’s private photos.
Source: cnn.com
Date: May 31 2013
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http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tech/2013/05/31/exp-idesk-snapchat-leaked.cnn.html
Questions for discussion:
1. Do you see this issue with Snapchat as a problem? Why or Why not?
2. What are some possible downsides of this service?
Description: Relieved your kids aren’t posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They’re probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead.
Source: THEGLOBEANDMAIL.com
Date: March 18, 2013
Educators say they have seen everything from kids using their mobile devices to circulate online videos of school drug searches to male students sharing nude pictures of their girlfriends. Most parents, they say, have no idea.
“What sex education used to be – it’s now the ‘technology talk’ we have to have with our kids,” said Rebecca Levey, a mother of 10-year-old twin daughters who runs a tween video review site called KidzVuz.com and blogs about technology and educations issues.
Eileen Patterson, a stay-at-home mom of eight kids in Burke, Va., said she used to consider herself fairly tech savvy and is frequently on Facebook, but was shocked to learn her kids could message their friends with just an iPod Touch. She counts nine wireless devices in her home and has taken to shutting off her home’s Wi-Fi after 9 p.m., but Patterson calls her attempt to keep tabs on her kids’ online activity “a war I’m slowly losing every day.” READ REST OF STORY
Questions for discussion:
1. Do you feel parents should monitor their kids social media activity? Why or Why Not
2. What can parents do to secure their kid’s privacy and protection in the social media world?
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