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"The sharp increase in mobile phone ownership amongst children has resulted in cyber safety experts calling for parents to ditch smart phones for "dumb phones'' ... Mobile phones have also saturated the teenage demographic with 94 per cent of 16 and 17-year olds now owning a phone."

We need interventions that focus on building empathy, identifying escalation, and techniques for stopping the cycles of abuse.

This website is aimed at high school students, as it is at this age that most children are affected. Students direct themselves on an interactive journey through a detective's office to learn more about cyberbullying. These young teenagers get to hunt and explore their way through a fun website uncovering clues and information about cyberbullying and how to recognise what to do.

"2010 will be forever commemorated as the year Twitter matured from a cool but undecided teenager into a more confident and assertive young adult. While there's still much room to mature and develop, Twitter's new direction is crystallizing. With a new look, Dick Costolo as the new CEO, and an oversold new advertising platform, Twitter is growing into something not yet fully identifiable, but formidable nonetheless."

The explosive growth of social media, smartphones and digital devices is transforming our kids' lives, in school and at home. Research tells us that even the youngest of our children are migrating online, using tablets and smartphones, downloading apps. 

He is 16, an Australian living in London and recently scored $US250,000 in investment from a billionaire for a technology that could change the way we read emails, news articles or any other text on our computers.

Think Before You Upload is a great new animation from Privacy Victoria which aims to highlight the possible risks for young people of using on-line technologies such as social networking and gaming sites. It explores a number of familiar scenarios in a humorous way to re-inforce the need to consider the consequences of uploading to the interent. The only pity is that it is at present only available in a Flash version without any embed code.

This report from Common Sense Media "reveals that social networking is moving communication from face to face to cyberspace - and that parents have a lot to learn when it comes to their children's behaviors online." You can download a range of associated material here including the press release, executive summary and the report in total. Having checked out the report you might also like to http://www.ypulse.com/parents-clueless-about-teens-lives-same-as-it-ever-was for another take on the figures.