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We
were recently featured on Good
Morning America
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Where
Are Your Kids Hanging Out On the Web?
by Michael Haaren
Parents who don’t get
to know the Web better may be in for some discomfiting surprises. Many
of us may think that sites like Facebook, MySpace or YouTube are the cool
hang-out sites for kids, and that the ultimate thrill for the young is
watching a Google video of someone exploding from a mix of Mentos and
Coke. But as a recent New York Times article points out, there’s more
going on than that.
Young people, as every parent knows, hunger for places where there are
no rules, and in a society where we spend the first two decades of our
lives in institutions (and often the last decade as well), one can
certainly sympathize. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep an eye on
things, and “things” these days may often involve sites like Stickam.com.
“Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent
of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their sites can
see and do by cracking down on piracy and depictions of nudity and
violence,” the article points out. Because of the rules, however,
“young thrill-seekers” are heading to new sites like Stickam, “which is
building a business by going where others fear to tread: into the realm
of unfiltered live broadcasts from Web cameras.”
According to the Times, Stickam users aren’t monitored by any of the
company’s employees, and often have face-to-face video chats from their
bedrooms. (Stickam’s site posts rules for users, with a minimum age of
14, but the company’s chief executive admits that users are expected to
monitor each other.)
Other sites, like Dailymotion
and LiveLeak
(also mentioned in the article), appear to be following similar
approaches, although a visit to LiveLeak, which features “raw media”
footage (such as the Saddam Hussein hanging), indicates that employees
must approve content beforehand.
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Rat Race Factoids
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Work
From Home Scams
There
is a 42-to-1 scam ratio among "work from home" ads on the Internet, and
that is not counting the ones that arrive as spam in your inbox. [Read
our press release on this statistic.]
Average
Annual Vacation Days by Country:
United
States...........13
Japan...............25
Canada...............26
Great
Britain............28
Brazil..............34
Germany...............35
France................37
Italy.................42
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