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Facebook Guide for Parents is a step by step guide focusing on using Facebook as another window into your children’s life, friends, attitudes and online actions. This Facebook user guide provides you with information that will help you learn quickly the how-to’s of setting up your Facebook profile, securing it with Facebook privacy settings, tips on how to handle cyber-bullies along with strategies for being on Facebook without being in your kids faces about it… More >>

A New Jersey public school principal has had enough of the harm — from sexual predators or mean girls — that can come to young teens on sites like Facebook and MySpace.

So Anthony Orsini, principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, N.J., wants kids blocked from the sites at school and at home.  Read more…

BATON ROUGE, La. – Harassing or intimidating someone by text message, e-mail or posts on social networking sites like Facebook would be deemed “cyberbullying” and would be a crime under a bill that advanced Tuesday in the Louisiana Legislature.  Read more…

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Facebook Launches New Safety Center

… That’s what the Safety Center is for, at least in part. With Q&A’s for how to deal with abuse, stalking, cyberbullying and unwanted wall posts, messages and chats, a good bit of the Center’s guidance is aimed at reporting and stopping this unwanted behavior. Even in other Safety Center sections outside of “safety for teens,” this information is essentially just rehashed for others, like parents and teachers, for example. (Teachers and law enforcement professionals get a few extra tips about Facebook, too, like how to maintain a professional presence or how to report a sex offender).  Read more…

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