The Right Anti-Cyberbullying & Internet Safety Strategy
Social networking are getting hammered by the press following several high profile cyber-bullying cases on Twitter and Ask.fm. Politicians and parents are being vocal, wanting to ban social networking usage, and pass laws to regulate the internet, both of which are pointless and rather concerning exercises. The answer is education, and "privacy on" default settings. It should be mandatory for all UK primary school children to be properly educated on how to use the internet safety, learning about their online privacy and how to use social networking safely.This should be akin to the cycling proficiency test, as with kids riding bikes, all kids are online. Indeed many UK primary school aged children are using social network sites despite the teenage age limits, the problem is some parents are complete luddites, and are alien to such communication technologies, so cannot teach their sons and daughters even the very basics of online safety. Default privacy ...