TechCrunch Article Says 13% of ChatRoulette is Pervs

Goes to show we don’t issue warnings for nothing.
RJMetrics, an analytics firm, has done some digging on the new web phenom ChatRoulette and found that like most interesting ideas on the Internet, it’s being dominated by lonely dudes and pervs. Specifically, of the users sampled (2,883) that were alone, 89% were male, and only 11% [...]

Why the .XXX Domain Won’t End or Save the World

The decision on whether or not we will see sites with a .xxx suffix on their domain has been delayed…again.
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) deferred the decision until June, citing the need for a proposal outlining various options. The proposal is slated to be submitted March 26 and will then have [...]

How To Survive FourSquare, by Ron Davis

FourSquare is a mobile/geolocation/social-network/meetup app that allows people to post their current locations to their friends—OR, it’s a great way to get into trouble.
Or both.
Ron Davis, blogger and InternetSafety.com employee, quickly found that the social app could very easily lead people to sharing more information than would be safe or sensible. After receiving a friend [...]

David Schwimmer’s “Trust” Delves Into Internet Safety Issues

David Schwimmer has a strong personal motivation for taking the issue of online predators to the stage and the screen.
Schwimmer has long been a champion of women’s issues and is on the board of the Rape Foundation in Santa Monica. His interest in online predators and online safety began when he noticed an increase in [...]

ChatRoulette: “Odds Are Worse Than Russian Roulette”

Our CTO Aaron Kenny says that his concerns with ChatRoulette go beyond just concerns of minors being exposed to indecent or pornographic content

YouTube Safety Feature A Wonderful Fix, With a Fatal Flaw

This past weekend YouTube rolled out a rather impressive security feature, acknowledging that much of the content on the site is not exactly family-friendly.
The immensely popular video-sharing network is owned and operated by Google, and Safety Mode is similar to the “safe-search” we know from their search engine. In its blog post on the new [...]

Good and Bad News from the Kaiser Family Foundation Study

The most recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation on teen media use presents an interesting portrait of the younger generation.
While the report shows what many of us would expect, that teen screen time is rapidly expanding and that emerging mobile technologies are keeping kids aged eight to 18 glued to rich media more than [...]

We’re Off to CES 2010!

Shane Kenny, President, COO, and Founder of InternetSafety.com, gives his thoughts on what it takes to present your company at a mammoth trade show like the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
On Preparing for the Show
Planning gets into full swing for CES in mid-October and everything has to be done and on its way to [...]

How to Keep Your Facebook Profile off Search Engines

Facebook has recently rolled out more user-intensive security measures in order to guard users privacy and encourage members of the site to actively select how they want their content shared. If you’ve been to the site this week you’ve seen a screen asking you to determine or redetermine who can view your postings, photos, etc.
One [...]

Parenting Through the Predator Paradox

My first introduction to Internet safety was the story of Alicia Kozakiewicz, the girl who was abducted by an Internet predator and underwent unspeakable horrors while held in his basement for four days. (read her story here.)
Though Alicia’s story is a clear-cut warning about meeting online strangers, the topic of online predators is probably the [...]

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