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Michele Borba blog: 7 Crucial Internet Rules to Keep Our Kids and Teen Safer Online

Posted: December 2nd, 2009 by Michele Borba

REALITY CHECK: One survey found that half of three thousand U.S. children surveyed during the previous six months said they or someone they know had been victims or guilty of cyberbullying. Talk to your kids and monitor that computer! Our kids are called the “Net Generation” and for good reason. After all, this is the [...]

Michele Borba: 6 Tips To Help You NOT Become an Online Victim or Get Lost in Cyberspace – How to “Own” Your Virtual Image

Posted: October 14th, 2009 by Michele Borba

From parents to teens, teachers to principals, lawyers to landscapers, doctors to truck drivers, no one is immune to Internet slime. Sue Scheff’s book, Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet stresses why it is critical that you learn to maintain your cyber presence. Are you [...]

Cellphone Rules to Keep Your Kids Safer from Cyberbullying

Posted: August 1st, 2009 by Michele Borba

Michele Borba REALITY CHECK: Did you know that 30 percent of girls who have gone into online chat roooms say they have been sexually harassed, but only 7 percent of those girls say they told their mothers or fathers about the incidents immediately? That disturbing finding comes from the Girl Scout Research Institute survey “What [...]