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Parents please be ware! Social media lurkers are everywhere. Follow possible guidance and help your kids stay safe.
Parents please beware! Social media lurkers are everywhere. Follow guidelines and help your kids stay safe.
As soon as I read this tweet following a recent news report on a 12 year old being sexually harassed, I felt a lump in my throat. I couldn’t agree yet I couldn’t disagree. Parenting is a balancing act, just that at times we do not know how to balance it right. Not just in the real world, a plethora of social media platforms have raised the stress levels of the new age parent. Is it okay to let my child WhatsApp her friends? Should I go through my son or daughter’s facebook friends list? Is it okay if my teenager posts photos on Instagram?
With a rise in social media platforms and dating apps, intruders are finding new ways to honey trap people. Sextortion is one such cyber crime that blackmails victims with sexual information or photos to extort sexual or monetary favours. Though men have been the most common victim so far, ConnectSafely.org (a Silicon Valley, Calif.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating users of connected technology about safety, privacy and security) has published safety tips and precautions and advice to parents with regards to sexting and sextortion.
Kids and teenagers are often reluctant to share sexting and sextortion issues with any elders they trust because of fear, guilt and confusion. They fear being judged, criticized, disciplined, punished or worse, being marginalized by their peers. Here are few things you could do to assure them of your support and to get them out of the situation.
Have more questions about sextortion and how to prevent it? Watch Manjula Sridhar, who runs ArgByte that helps businesses and individuals to identify fake profiles and prevent fraud, help us understand the situation.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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