Parents lying to get their kids to join Facebook?

A new study, collaborated on by boyd and Palfrey, talks about adults that lie in order to sign their own children up for Facebook. Many studies are also finding that younger children are more and more likely to join Facebook both in America and in Europe. Do you think that the age restriction should be

Was this type of bullying in fashion in the 90s?

We didn’t have any share buttons in the 90s as far as I can remember. But bullying was definitely happening. The Internet existed in the 90s as well. This commercial, recently put out by Microsoft, shows a family having fun together in their living room. The father is ‘dancing’ to one of Microsoft’s new Kinect

The word “bullying”

What do you think? Think we should use the word bullying? John Fugelsang argues (in this video): “Bullying is a flaccid, outdated, archaic, Archie’s comic term. It’s quaint. It’s useless. It’s toothless. […] It doesn’t do any justice to the kind of brutalizing that would drive a kid to kill him or herself. […] The

Steve Jobs will be missed.

I noted, earlier today, how sad I was that Steve wasn’t there to present the iPhone 4S and someone else said, “well, he’ll be there to present the iPhone 5.” Tragically, a couple of hours later, I saw the announcement on the Apple website that Steve Jobs had passed on. Quite a legendary individual, if