Comments on: Misrepresenting Internet Danger Stats to Boost Sales

By: Twitter – a follow up « Web 2.0 and Beyond

Twitter – a follow up « Web 2.0 and Beyond — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:46:14 +0000

[...] so many people are saying, managing your digital footprint, or digital identity is how people are going to [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:41:46 +0000

Thank you! My wife teaches 8th graders and I work as the IT director in the school. Every year I see kids struggling as a result of mom and dad being their child’s friend instead of the parent. The time to bring back the family dinner is upon us.

By: Reality

Reality — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:49:55 +0000

What to protect your children from sexual predators? It’s so easy. 1) Limit their use of the Internet to only directly supervised activities. No chat rooms, none of that toxic social networking garbage, but only research and homework. 2) No cell phones with text messaging. Kids DO NOT need cell phones. No, they really, really don’t. Young children should never be anywhere where a cell phone would be required, since they’d be under the direct supervision of adults. A argument can be made that teens may need a cell phone (a weak on — we never had them and we survived), but no argument can be made for texting. It is simple is never necessary and, indeed, undesirable. We are allowing our kids to exchange the reality of direct social interaction for an artificial world, where people aren’t always what they seem. That’s not god parenting.

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:19:29 +0000

@Janet: I think we duplicate ourselves in contexts like this through media education efforts with students, parents, and other educators!

By: LSolansky

LSolansky — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:16:56 +0000

Thank you for exposing how ludicrous it is for a parent, or whomever, to rely on such false advertisement! There are so many things out there that people put there full faith and trust is later found to be faulty. In my opinion, this whole software seems completely absurd in the fact that they believe that investing in swaying a parent to believe in such a program would hinder a child’s ethical and moralistic decisions. Therefore, it is great that you are taking the time to point out how everything is not what it seems and if companies want to sell a reliable item, they need to take the time to do the research.

By: gladman9

gladman9 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:57:26 +0000

with all this tracking, my kids use http://www.smstextnow.com you can send free text messages and they do it from my own home where I can see it!

By: Janet Clarey

Janet Clarey — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:54:09 +0000

Thanks for exposing the weaknesses of Mobile Sky’s “research.” Now, if you could just duplicate your process say, a zillion times for all the other fearmongorss who rely on such irresponsible tactics.

By: Abimbola Akanwo

Abimbola Akanwo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:53:48 +0000

Thank you for a good, well argued post…

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:30:53 +0000

Goodness I hope you’re wrong! That’s one of the last things I’d like to bring down on myself at this point…

I need to make friends with more “white hats” fast….

By: Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:12:45 +0000

Ooh… now you’ve done it, Wes. The black hats are going to come after you! Don’t turn your back on your computer(s) ‘lest a keystroke logger be installed without your knowledge. And if you see black helicopters…