|Teen online safety mostly about behavior| How kids act on and
off-line is has more to do with risk than what technology they
use by Larry Magid The Internet and the way young people use
technology are constantly evolving, but the safety messages
change very slowly, if at all. Like technology itself, Internet
safety has to evolve. Back in 1994, when I wrote the first
widely disseminated Internet safety publication, I advised
parents not to let kids put personal information or photos
online and — because of what turned out to be an exaggerated
fear of predators — I urged them to avoid online conversations
with strangers. Back then, along with trying to keep kids away
from porn, Internet safety was mostly about protecting children
from dangerous adults. But starting around 2005, a new phase of
the Web — often referred to as “Web 2.0″ — prompted some
Internet safety advocates to focus on ways kids could get in
trouble for what they post on social networking sites like
MySpace and Facebook. It was in that year th