trackingyrkidz

although being sick is kind of awful, i am given the opportunity to watch good morning america. today they featured a family who is now taking advantage of OnlineFamily.Norton, which was made so "non-techy" parents could see what their kids do online. it shows your child's online history, and potentially worrisome things show up in red, which is kind of cool, and is more effective than just showing a list of different urls. what i am not so keen on is that they can check social networking profiles and read IM conversations. i mean, if a parent has something to worry about in an IM conversation, then yeah i guess it's okay for them to read it, but a large part of what i talk to my friends about, online and in real life, might not be inappropriate, but might not be something i feel comfortable having my parents read. i don't want my mom referencing an IM conversation i had last night. the motive of this particular program is that if kids know their parents are watching, they're more likely to talk about it irl. i do not know how true this is. i feel like this program will only make kids paranoid that even if they accidentally come upon an inappropriate website, their parents might mistake it as intentional.


maybe they'll check back with the example family and see how it goes.

internetisscarii

i am sure that everyone has heard about Philip Markoff, the "craigslist killer," who allegedly killed a woman who advertised on craigslist. while it's terrifying to think that he found his victim, Julissa Brisman, on the internet, what is interesting is how he was caught. they traced the email he used to contact Brisman to his internet provider, and then received an address. the footprints you leave on the internet make hiding a crime almost impossible.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/04/22/2009-04-22_internet_craigslist_killers_ugly_domain.html

but anyway, blue planet is on, and you should probably watch it if you are interested in shouting "WOOOOOAH" every time a bio-luminescent fish comes on screen.

maaaaaaam

my mom has become obsessed with posting everything she does to her twitter, plurk, and facebook. i can now know every single thing that she does by just going to her twitter. this is unsettling. i would like to have to give her a phone call to know that she is playing scrabble. i do not appreciate this in the slightest mom if youre reading this please get help.

VOOOOOOTE

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TWEETINGINTHEMILKYWAY

aaaahahahahaha sorry.

anyway. HEY TWITTER WHAT ARE YOU DOING TAKING OVER THE WORLD.
an astronaut has been tweeting about his training and preparation for his trip to the Hubble Space Telescope!

maybe he will tweet from OUTER SPACE WHAAAAAT!

i don't like twitter, but i am very impressed.


http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131323&intsrc=news_ts_head

bulyinncybastalkinn

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UGH. so instead i watched a movie.

from the old nokia cellphones whose most advanced feature is the ability to take a video to the shocking realizating that "kids can wander through cyberspace all by themselves," the CWKNetwork's "Cyberstalking & Bullying" seems slightly outdated despite being from 2008. The message is still there though, that the internet holds numerous threats for children.

once you get past the background music that is reminiscent of a 1980s horror film, it's actully terrifying. this video seems to try to scare kids from the internet, which obviously isn't happening very soon. the scariest part was probably kurtis sawyer, a convicted child molester, who said that he felt as though he was just talking to another human being, not a young girl. and another story about a girl named kylie, who was abducted and kept prisoner by someone she met online. the anonymity of the internet is the scariest aspect.

toomuchtime

i realized i spent 7 hours on facebook yesterday. i rule lolol. :(


i got invited to become a fan of carl bergmanson yesterday on facebook. that's pretty smart of him, to take advantage of the internet like that.

corzine has one too! this is weird. but exciting!

http://www.baristanet.com/2009/03/have_you_fanned_jon_corzine_on.php

supersuper

LOL

aprulfoools

i like that websites choose to celebrate april fool's day.

"GO TO YOUTUBE. ITS UPSIDE-DOWN," shouted my brother as soon as he got home from school.
i also almost fell for the washington post's "conficker worm" joke.

then i realized i could just read a list of all of them and never be fooled again.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512050,00.html


this made me lol
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html