Unsupervised access to the internet is too dangerous no matter how much we trust our own children. There are just too many predators out there who are extremely good at what they do. And, its not just the adults we have to be leery of; peer bullying can be equally hazardous.

Canada’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into whether Facebook is breaking the law when it passes on sensitive personal information to advertisers and other profit-making companies without securing meaningful consent. The complaint, filed Friday by law students interning at the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, alleges 21 other violations under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

This award is presented to MySpace members who use the social networking site as a tool to help make a positive change in their community and the world, according to Jin Yoon, a MySpace public affairs coordinator.

48 hours is too long a time to wait before responding to someone. Don’t let emails sit in your inbox for weeks on end. Send a reply and be done with the thing.

“duh . . .”, a 16 year-old girl who has just met the boy of her dreams on Facebook often does not think of the potential consequences of meeting strangers. Not every other user on Facebook is a convicted sex offender, but neither is everybody online a member of the National Honor Society.