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Digital citizenship is one of the big things we talk about on Passnowow. It’s basically being a good person online. Being a good person involves a lot more than just not spamming or trolling, mind you. It involves keeping yourself and your friends safe. One of the biggest ways to do that is to know […]

A teenager in the US has revealed how he sold the family jewels to pay off a blackmailer and stop an embarrassing video of him going public. Hector Hernandez, 17, claims he is the victim of a computer virus, known as a R.A.T (remote access tool) which allows anonymous hackers to gain control of a

Facebook announced Tuesday it was working on new ways to keep users from stumbling across gruesome content on its website following an outcry over the discovery of beheading videos there. The controversy — which has drawn critical comment from British Prime Minister David Cameron — illustrates the difficulty of setting a universal standard across the

A fourth teen was charged in the rape of a 12-year-old Chicago girl that was eventually posted on Facebook by her attackers in May. Dyquier Garrett, 16, was charged Friday with aggravated criminal sexual assault and ordered held on $500,000 bail. Three other teens, Scandale Fritz and Justin Applewhite, both 16, and Kenneth Brown, 15,

No, your friends haven’t just discovered how adorable giraffes are. An emerging trend on Facebook has people changing their profile pictures to images of the long-necked animal after failing to solve a tough riddle. Here’s how it works: Someone posts the riddle on Facebook, challenging their friends to answer it in a private message. If

Facebook wants to get inside users heads with new capabilities to track and analyse their behaviour across the social network. Not content with collecting huge troves of data about users’ lives outside of Facebook, executives want new capabilities to track users’ minute interactions with the service itself. New technology would allow them to start collecting

Teens these days, constantly with their noses in their phones, texting their friends who are nine feet away from them. And if you had to take their phone away from them, you probably can barely decipher what they’re saying. While some of the abbreviations are pretty mainstream and/or understandable (LOL has been around for ages,

  (By Ruby Karp) I’m a teen living in New York. All of my friends have social networks — Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, etc. Facebook used to be all I could talk about when I was younger. “Mom, I want a Facebook!” and other whining only a mother could put up with. But now, at 13,

  Here in the U.S., it’s nearly time to head back into the classroom and to once again mold young minds. Teachers are organizing their thoughts, figuring out what they learned at all the summer conferences they attended. Students are coming to grips with the fact that their long vacation is winding down and making

  (By Folksy) How could we live without the Internet? That’s how most of us keep in touch with friends, find homework support, research a cool place to visit, or find out the latest news. Besides the millions of sites to visit and things to do, the Internet offers lots of ways to waste time