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This guy is great! He started International Delete Your Myspace Account Day. I actually created an account about a year ago to get in touch with ONE person — who never even responded. I used today as the day to officially delete my membership. I hadn’t even created my page yet – why bother, the [...]

The news of the day is this – the year’s 2nd “most useless” idea for online safety. The first, of course, being the MySpace agreement. Now, my own state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo – along with Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno and Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver – has proposed legislation that would require [...]

I stumbled across this article the other day and was happy by what I saw… it seems that slowly, even the teens are realizing the new MySpace deal is just a PR stunt – in a manner of words. More or less, they agree that elements of the agreement will be hard to maintain and [...]

I stumbled across this guy’s page where he basically outlines the measures taken to ensure family Internet safety. This includes the restrictions placed upon their 9-year-old web surfing son. EXCELLENT. This is one parent who is not afraid to tell his child who the parent is. Too many other parents are afraid of rousing their [...]

Thought I’d give the shout out for some television programming tonight. The PBS series, Frontline, which is fantastic, is airing an episode tonight dedicated to the generation of kids growing up now that are, in reality, the first ones to fully grow up in an online world. The piece, entitled Growing Up Online, touches on [...]

We sent out a release today that is basically our offical response to the MySpace agreement. It’s just extra food for thought. Have a fun and safe weekend… PC Pandora Urges Parents to Increase Online Safety in the Home In the wake of the recently announced MySpace-Attorneys General agreement, PC Pandora reminds parents that the [...]

Big news today concerning MySpace; I am sure you have heard, as every state is creating their own localized story, that the infamous social networking site (famous for being a breeding ground for sexual predators) has reached an agreement with 49 states’ (and the District of Columbia) Attorneys General to make several changes that will [...]

Yes folks, that’s right… our soon-to-be-released PC Pandora version 5.0 got a sneak peek review on pcmag.com. The article may soon appear in the print edition as well! Overall, we are happy with our review. While it was noted that we could improve actual parental “control,” we are the leaders of the pack in actual [...]

My good friends on the ChildLaw blog did a scary round-up of the year’s pedos… Check it out. While many of them are not necessarily a case of an Internet seduction, all involve the exploitation of children via pornography, and many are computer/internet-based. 2007 Pedophile Roundup – the Year in Review As we start 2008, [...]

I know my posts have been lackluster this week, but I had hundreds of stories to sort though after almost 2 weeks off! So, here are some tidbits from the beginning of this week and the New Year. Do know, that our PC Pandora version 5.0 is going to be released soon and I will [...]

So here are a bunch of stories I came across as I caught up with the end of the year’s news… Missing Teen Left With MySpace Friend, Mom Says From Cincinnati OH, a 13-year old girl in Mason (OH) left her parents house with a boy/man she met on MySpace – who was old enough [...]

2007 was a great year for our industry of online safety… The basic foundation of awareness spread like wildfire. We are hoping to see a lot more awareness and more parents smartening up and watching their kids online. Just because they are at home, doesn’t mean they are safe; the internet is a “world wide” [...]