A good, if somewhat alarmist, book. I would have excised about 100 pages, but then, that's how I feel about most books.
Her basic gist is that there needs to be more regulation and oversight online, especially for children and teenagers. And while I'm sympathetic to the plight of parents, trying to monitor their children's online interactions, I don't think the situation is quite as dire as she makes it out to be. Get a filter. TALK to your children, keep up a dialogue about online harm and what's happening in their cyber life. Then trust them. If you're talking, things can only get so bad.
Now, maybe I'm naive. I did go to hippie school after all, and didn't particularly have an online presence until I got to college. Introversion is not a new thing for me, and I was remarkably uninterested in breaking the rules as a child and teen - so if my parents had said, This internet filter is the way it is, I probably wouldn't have tried to circumvent it.
BUT.
Talking is key. (That's why we have so much talk therapy, after all.) Even surly teenagers respond when there's a culture of trust and support.
Finally, change your passwords. The hackers are out there.
xo,
Devo
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