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How to Keep Kids Safe from Cyber-Bullying

With changing times, as parents or guardians our worries for our kid’s safety have grown. While we try our level best to maintain a balance between managing their privacy and at the same time also trying to keep them safe, occasionally we fail to the likes of many luring threats like cyber bullying. This is new yet much dangerous form of bullying that preys on youngsters through computerized networking.  Young adulthood and teenage years tend to bring out the worse in kid. This is the time in their lives where they are learning and exploring all the possibilities around them. However this is the time when they need the most supervision as well. But providing round the clock supervision is usually not practical therefore as parents we need to take some other precautionary measures that can help us monitor our kid’s social circles. Here are a few tips on how to keep kid safe from cyber bullying. Monitor SMS (Text Messages) Activity Every teenager has an active messa...

North Vancouver 'Sextortion' Case Prosecutor Wants Jail for Man Who Posted Explicit Video Internet

Public prosecutors have requested that 23-year-old Mark Webber should go to jail for threatening to post a sexually explicit video of a young woman on the social media site Facebook unless she sent him nude photos of herself – and did this within two days of his asking her, when she did not do so. Prosecutor Lee told the presiding judge that Webber also posted the explicit video to a pornographic website which caused severe psychological harm to the victim, and distress to her family. The prosecutor told the public outside the court that this case was like the 2012 Amanda Todd case where Todd committed suicide after Cyber-bullied. Lee asked Judge Steven Merrick that the case merited exemplary punishment and that Webber should be sent to prison for nine months so that potential perpetrators get a strong message that such actions are criminal and unacceptable in society. Like minded persons who have a desire to do similar acts should get a strong message that use of soc...