The disturbing teen phenomena of Sexting

I’ve seen this pop up more and more and decided to post about “Sexting.” Apparently, teens are using their camera phones and messaging systems in ways no parent probably considered when they first gave their kid a cell phone.

Sexting New form of Child/Teen Cell Phone Abuse

It’s called sexting-sending graphic images and pornographic videos via text message to friends. It’s becoming such a problem that major cities, such as San Diego, have an entire team on their police department dedicated to sexting and …

tampabays10.com, 11/7/08, “Sexting” and the fight to protect teens

The trend is known in popular culture as “sexting” and its grown so serious that Verizon is funding a new Web-based program to educate youth about its dangers. Web Wise Kids, a non-profit designed to offer children challenging and …

Sexting Concerns

Sexting Concerns.

Teen Suicide Online

A horrifying trend captured by the media recently has been Internet enabled teen suicide.  It’s frightening, disturbing and difficult to even gather all the details, but awareness and figuring out how these types of events can be prevented is on all of us.

More:

MySpace Suicide Trial

What Does Teen’s Suicide Say About The Myspace Generation?

If you’ve been following these posts or have been plugged into the media in the last week, you’ve probably come across the story of Abraham Biggs, a Florida teen who digicast his own suicide, overdosing on medications, his webcam baring witness to his last breath…

iPods are the new Starter jackets…unfortunately

An unsettling trend of iPod crime amongst teenagers may bring you back to the early nineties, when the hot commodity for kids were Starter brand jackets. The upside is that Starter jacket crimes were often violent and even worse. Not that theft is anything blow off, but young iPod owners should keep a watchful eye over theirs and consider where they take them.

The Dangerous Side of iPod Defense

What lengths would you go to protect your iPod from a mugger? While most of us would hand it over rather than risk our lives – kids up in Canada are doing the exact opposite. They will fight, kick, yell, scream — just about anything to keep their gadgets away from thieves….

Sacto 9-1-1: Teen thieves target Elk Grove iPod owners

Teen thieves target Elk Grove iPod owners. From Sandy Louey:. Elk Grove police arrested two teenagers Monday for robbing a man of his iPod. The incident took place at 3:01 p.m. at Babson Drive and Haack Way when two 16-year-old boys …

Teen Charged with iPod Theft in Carlisle

eileen mary damiano was charged with theft and receiving stolen property after $595 and an apple ipod were reported stolen, according to state police at carlisle. read more here.

Economy Woes Impact Teens

The best way for Americans to not get bit again by a credit crunch would be to spend and save more wisely. Habits such as this are best learned at an early age, that why I think it’s important to recognize and take a look at how the teen population is affected by our global economic woes, and what teens can do to learn a powerful lesson during this time.

Here are a couple of interesting samplings:

Economy hits teen workers hard

Meanwhile, the number of people over 65 in the workforce over the last year grew, Sum said. Sum predicts teens in the year ahead will be thrown out of the labor market at record levels. Copyright 2008 by United Press International …

5 Money Saving Tips for Teens

Setup an Online Savings Account – When you help your teen set up a bank account, be sure to establish two accounts: one for saving and one for spending. Although you can give your child a debit or ATM card for the spending account, …

Keeping Teens Safe from Online Predators

There are plenty of dangers to be found online for teens. None, perhaps, are more frightening than online predators. Parents of children who spend a lot of time online MUST be aware of safety issue online. Find out what you need to know to keep your kid safe from online predators.

Check out these informative articles:

How To Keep Yourself Safe From Online Predators

If you think online games are just for boys who are into strategic war games or role playing games for warriors and wizards then you might not have been introduced yet to the colorful and exciting world of girl games on the Internet It ..

Top 30 Creep Speak Terms

This topic harks back to old “Internet Lingo” posts my pal Joe wrote so passionately about in September. There is Internet language and verbiage… and then there is creep speak. You know… the abbreviations and euphemisms predators love to use while trolling the Internet.

Hacker makes the Internet safer

Not exactly the traditional hometown boy makes good, nevertheless the former teen hacker known as “Mafiaboy”, has been reformed and now is about to tell his story and how he is working for the good of Internet security in his new book. Fascinating stuff!

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Mafiaboy Makes Good | Teen Checkup | Internet Safety

Mafiaboy is now singing the praises of Internet safety. The Montreal, Canada – based teen was only 15 years old when he was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Before his ordeal was over, he pleaded guilty to 56 charges and …

Hacking Mafiaboy

Michael Calce would like the chance to reintroduce himself.
Most people, even the computer illiterate, know him as Mafiaboy, the online nickname he used while causing havoc on the Internet in 2000 by temporarily shutting down websites like Yahoo.com and CNN.com.

Reformed Teen Hacker Contributes to Online Safety

You may have heard a similar story of a criminal who becomes reformed and turns around to help prevent the crimes he partook in.  Think Frank Abagnale Jr. (the guy who inspired the movie “Catch Me if You Can”), but only a cyber version of Frank Abagnale Jr.

Perhaps we’ll see the former hacker known as Mafiaboy someday solve one or more of the top 10 unsolved cyber crimes.  Nevertheless, it’s an interesting read:

Reformed teen hacker Mafiaboy preaches Internet safety

The Montreal teen credited with launching online attacks against the world’s Internet giants eight years ago says people are crazy to have all their personal information on Facebook and other social networking sites.