Social sites safer than chat, IM: Study
Parents, don’t just talk with your kids about social networking – chat sites and instant messaging really need to be in the conversation too. Despite the news media’s focus on social-networking sites...
View ArticleLive chat in social sites
It sounds like a cross between Facebook, Second Life, and Habbo Hotel, and it’s coming soon to a Facebook profile near you, the New York Times reports. It says there are several products in the works,...
View ArticleChat, Webcams used to trick teen girls
A Canadian man could get a life sentence for allegedly tricking or coercing at least 12 teenaged girls, one as young as 14, to pose nude for him in front of a Webcam, The Register reports. Daniel...
View ArticleGoogle’s new avatar chat
Google’s Lively.com, introduced this week, is kind of Second Life Lite. Both provide software you download to create your own avatar (a cartoon-like digital representation of yourself). But instead of...
View ArticleGerman teen shooter’s threat in chatroom
The 17-year-old German boy who killed 15 people and then himself this week warned about his plans “in an Internet chat room six hours before” he went on a shooting spree in his former high school, the...
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