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  • Facebook New Privacy Setting Changes: an e-Safety perspective

    In the next few days Facebook will be rolling out changes to its privacy settings options to all users. Facebook state that they believe the new privacy settings will offer more control to users and will make managing personal data more visual and straightforward. One of the key changes for users to...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-24-2011
  • New research on Cyberbullying published

    Anglia Ruskin University has published a study which identifies how bullying via texts, e-mails, social networks can have detrimental effects on mental health for people aged 11 to 19.This reseacrh would estimate that nearly one in five UK youngsters have been the victim of cyberbullying, with more girls...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-01-2011
  • First Cyberbully jailed in UK

    A Worcestershire teenager is thought to be the first person in Britain jailed for social network bullying after threatening to kill someone on Facebook. In jailing 18-year-old Keeley Houghton up for three months in a young offenders institution, District Judge Bruce Morgan described the online bullying...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 08-25-2009
  • The Big Stand - take a stand against Cyberbullying

    Beatbullying is asking every every person in the UK, young people and adults, to stand up at 10am on Thursday 14 May, as a national sign of defiance against bullying and cyberbullying and in solidarity with the millions of young people being bullied and cyberbullied. A free lesson plan and worksheet...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 05-11-2009
  • Generation "sexting"

    90 young people in UK "have been cautioned as a result of posting sexual material of themselves or their underage friends online or on their mobile phones," the Daily Mail reports. This phenomena known as "Sexting" is becoming increasingly commonplace with children and young people...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 03-24-2009
  • New support for Children and Young People experiencing Cyberbullying

    New websites and support have been launched this month with the aim of supporting the increasing numbers of young people experiencing Cyberbullying. One in five 11-16 year olds in the UK say they have experienced cyberbullying and three quarters say they don't feel that there is appropriate support...
    Posted to e-Safety in Schools (Weblog) by averyr01 on 03-18-2009
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