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"What Makes a Great Digital Citizen? Digital citizenship has many great benefits and responsibilities. A good digital citizen can experience all the advantages of our connected world, but there are crucial responsibilities to be practiced along with such privileges. Like a part of any established nation, the digital citizen must: consider that they are identifiable and are creating a "digital footprint" with any online activity always communicate using the appropriate language serve their duty to judge what is appropriate and ethical behaviour within the laws of the land uphold their social responsibilities always be virtuous and act with integrity in all digital and non-digital communications and interactions To navigate and to survive in this dynamic digital world, we need some basic rules and guidelines. We call these the tenets of digital citizenship. The Tenets of Digital Citizenship"

"But a slew of new apps - including Wut, Secret, Confide, Popcorn and Telegram - that have come out in recent months are offering hope to the Anthony Weiners of the world, and to the rest of us, too. They are intended to let users either talk secretly with people they know, or blurt out random comments to total strangers."

"At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive. Perhaps she hadn't realized that colleges keep track of their social media mentions."