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Your online reputation or digital footprint is both real and valuable. Your Facebook or Twitter page is your digital CV and valuable to your reputation and future career. Celebrities can afford to employ Reputation Managers to trawl through the net to clean or hide the unsavourable and to trend the positive news about them and their lives. Can you?
The best online safety strategy is to talk to your child. The online world is very much part of young people's world today, they are "growing up digital", and technology is embedded in every aspect of their lives. As parents your natural desire is to keep your children safe.
The theme for Safer Internet Day (SID) is Connecting Generations and to help connect the generations for SID the Webwise Youth Panel have come up with some tips for teachers who use Facebook
Facebook is the latest in a long line of what we now know as “social networking” websites. But what sets it apart from the competitiors, is its popularity. At last check, some 900 million people worldwide had signed-up for profiles on the site. But, if you’re not quite on top of technology or are new to the internet, as a parent, or a teacher, you probably have a few questions.
Worried about something you have seen online or concerned about your child? Childline and the National Parents Council Primary offer free advice and support service.
Childline is a support service for young people up to the age of 18.There is a 24hr telephone, online and mobile phone texting service.
The National Parents Council Primary enables and empowers parents to be effective partners in their children’s education.
Sometimes you might unwittingly stumble across illegal online content like child abuse imagery. Always remember: you can report it and get it removed using Hotline.ie.
Hotline.ie exists to combat the distribution and proliferation of illegal content, like child sexual
abuse content, in conjunction with police and Internet Industry