Nowadays, Social Media can be used to educate young people. While talking to and advising your kids and teens daily is considered ideal, social media can do the same much more effectively and is also able to reach a broader audience at the same time. “Influencers” create content such as online videos in
What is TikTok? TikTok it’s a social media app that enables users to film short videos of themselves lip-syncing to songs or comedy sketches. They can share these 60 second short videos with friends, family or the entire world. Currently, the app is available in 34 languages with 150 million active users. The innovative short-form
“Every year, over two million people experience domestic abuse. This includes 100,000 people who are at high risk of murder and serious harm: 95,000 of those are women. Perpetrators – partners and ex-partners are increasingly using technology to facilitate their abuse of the women.” What is Tech Abuse? Nowadays, technology gives perpetrators
What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullies use the internet or a mobile phone to hurt, harass or embarrass someone. It’s receiving nasty, threatening or hurtful messages through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, WhatsApp and other social media It’s sending photos and videos of you to others without your permission to embarrass or hurt you It’s
Everything started last year when from Asian Mums Network and Cyber-Safe Zone, we launched an Internet Safety program in order to provide Internet safety training to mums from all different backgrounds. With the knowledge they acquire after the training and online education, they can feel secure on Internet, be aware of the most
The best way to understand the Dark Web, for instance, is to use an iceberg as an illustration and analogy of how content is shown on the Internet and that most of the things we see, publish and share online, represent just 4% of everything existent. To begin let’s call the top of the Iceberg World
Asian Mums Network won funding from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue and Google.org to develop an Internet safety campaign and tools for parents, in particular, targeting mums from hard to reach communities. During our scoping phase, we wanted to connect with European partners and gauge what issues families and young people across Europe faced in
Parents should be aware of the dangers that exist online. It’s fundamental to ensure that your children are safe when they browse the Internet, use online gaming or interact on social media. Online child sex offenders often log into chat rooms, social networking services, and gaming sites in order to gain contact with children. The prevalence
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