Pandora’s Blog

It comes down to this: if parents can’t start talking to their kids, showing them how to behave online and showing them how to act like decent human beings to other people, then this, my friends, is only the first of many cyberbullying lawsuits we will see.
I don’t understand at what point people forget that [...]

Internet safety is no doubt the hot topic for parents and government these days, as far as child safety is concerned. I just finished reading a book entitled “How To Keep Your Child Safe on the Internet” by Wendy Davies, and I gotta tell you, this is one book that every parent needs to read!
Subtitled “A [...]

A new study from the Journal of School Health has been published that looks at the correlations of real world bullying and cyberbullying. Below is an article that summarizes the results. The actual study can be found here: Extending the School Grounds?—Bullying Experiences in Cyberspace.
My 2-cents: you will read in the last paragraph below that [...]

Here’s another weekly round-up of dirtbags that got caught soliciting sex for minors on the internet. In one story, which furthers the reason parents need to utilize monitoring software like PC Pandora to keep an eye on their kids’ Internet activity, a 13-year-old girl willingly ran away with a man she met on MySpace and [...]

Seriously, folks, we need to do something here. I’ll let the article below speak for itself, but the statistical data is astonishing and shows a much worse off problem than I think any parents think there is. It’s time parents invest in monitoring software like our PC Pandora and watch what their kids are doing [...]

I found another pretty cool article on cyberbullying. Though it states a bit of the obvious (bullying is easier online due to anonymity), it’s still a good read.
However, there is one glaring omission: in both the “seeking solutions” and “calling all parents” areas, there is no mention of PC Pandora, or monitoring software for that [...]

Not going to get into the political discussion here, but I am very very happy to stand behind this bill, no matter who authored it.
There are a few people and websites out there that insist this is a bad thing and will bring about a flurry of lawsuits… so… what? RSOs are going to sue [...]

More international news (kind of slow here in the US): Props to the UK government for creating this council. Now let’s hope they sharpen their fangs and deal with the issues they have highlighted.
Also, as a reminder, PC Pandora will work overseas. It works on any PC running windows. Parents in the UK can utilize [...]

The other day I posted some domestic news; well, here’s some international news for y’all.
The commissioner for the Information Society and Media in Europe gave a speech recently on Social Network. A little late to tackle the issue, but better late than never. The huge recent growth of social networks along with an increase in [...]

Not much in the way of Internet predator sting ops this past week. So instead of the weekly round-up of scumbags, I am going to play the other side of the coin and talk about one of the groups that has made a name for itself by going after online predators trying to lure minors [...]