{"id":816,"date":"2013-12-17T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=816"},"modified":"2013-12-17T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:11:16","slug":"wwr_17dec13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_17dec13\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading: Parents – Don’t Panic, Twitter Flips on Blocking, Social Media War for Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\"<\/a>By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of December 16, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n

To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week.\u00a0 What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet\u00a0@TrendISKF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PARENTS-DON\u2019T PANIC<\/b>: In her forthcoming book It\u2019s Complicated: Teen Privacy in a Networked World <\/span>(due out February 2014), renowned researcher danah boyd (yes, no caps) wants parents to know that their kids are going to be okay. \u00a0Her book is a recap of her research on social media habits<\/a> which covers challenging issues like cyberbullying but also champions the idea that the best way for parents to help their kids is not by telling them what to do, but by asking questions and being truly present.<\/p>\n

danah also reinforces the message that teens do in fact care about their online privacy, saying \u201cThey want to be in public. But that doesn\u2019t mean that they want to be public.\u201d\u00a0 See danah discuss these issues<\/a> in her keynote speech at the Family Online Safety Institute\u2019s 2013 conference last month.<\/p>\n

TWITTER FLIPS ON BLOCKING: <\/b>Last week, amid huge protest, Twitter reinstated the original way in which users could block followers.\u00a0 Twitter had wanted to change the feature by letting someone block a follower without letting that follower know they were blocked.\u00a0 The reason? \u00a0To protect the blocker from retaliation.\u00a0 Protesters of the change stated that this did nothing to solve that problem because the blocked person could still see and retweet the person who blocked them, but their actions would simply be invisible to the blocker.<\/p>\n

The Twittersphere was definitely loud and clear: change it back.\u00a0 And they did.\u00a0 Kudos to Twitter for the fast response and good intentions.\u00a0 As stated in this Tech Crunch article<\/a>, the safest thing to do is keep all your tweets private.\u00a0 Let\u2019s also remember: regardless of what you or anyone else is doing online, if someone\u2019s out to get you, Twitter isn\u2019t the only place they can do it.<\/p>\n

SOCIAL MEDIA WAR FOR TEENS:<\/b> \u00a0Instagram vs. Kik vs. Snapchat.\u00a0 These are some of today\u2019s biggest social media contenders for the youth crowd.\u00a0 This past week, Instagram launched a feature called Direct<\/a> which is basically a messaging feature and answer to Snapchat popularity.\u00a0 Kik reached 100 million registered users last week, and wants to figure out how to monetize its service<\/a> much like Facebook does.\u00a0 And we all know how much teens love Facebook these days\u2026<\/p>\n

In my opinion, if a social app starts to make its service more cluttered and is more willing to monetize its users actions and info for its own benefit, the more likely it won\u2019t be popular with youth long-term.\u00a0 To the next hot social media app: keep it simple and useful.<\/p>\n

ALL THE BEST FOR 2014:<\/strong> This is our last post for 2013, but we\u2019ll be back the week of January 6. \u00a0Until then, have a wonderful holiday and see you in the new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week. <\/p>\n

This week: Parents: Don’t Panic, Twitter Flips on Blocking, Social Media War for Teens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[80,84,58,7,8,47,6,16,75,5,101,48,66,25,10,57,23,76,88,12,21,67],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-advertising","tag-apps","tag-bullying","tag-cyberbullying","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-internet-safety","tag-kik","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-snapchat","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-teens","tag-twitter","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}