Being obnoxious online now comes with a price. This year, two English football players were fined for posting homophobic tweets; a Swansea University student was sentenced to 56 days in jail for posting racist tweets about an ailing British footballer; an Indiana high school student was expelled after tweeting an F-bomb; and a U.S. Marine [...]
Jul 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: ACLU, anonymous commenting, Australia Facebook, California, cyberbullying, Daytona 500, Fabrice Muamba, Facebook, Liam Stacey, Manhattan District Attorney’s office, Marine Twitter, Occupy Wall Street, online commenting, Social Media, social media accountability, social media punishment, social media trends, SoMe, Suneel Mehta, Swansea University, Trayvon Martin, Twitter | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on Euro RSCG’s Social Life and Social Media blog.] This week, Facebook confirmed that it is developing parental control technology that will allow children under the age of 13 to use the site. My first question: What took it so long? Currently, those aged 13 and under are supposedly prohibited from creating a [...]
Jun 11, 2012 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Youth | Tags: bullying, children, Consumer Reports, cyberbullying, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, parental control technology, parents, social network, tweens, Wall Street | Leave A Comment »
On Korea’s Hug Day (Dec. 14), Twitter was a hotbed of niceness: The hashtag #stopcyberbullying trended when Miley Cyrus tweeted against cyberbullies in defense of her friends Kelly and Sharon Osbourne. Sadly, though, bullying continues—despite widespread efforts to stanch it, including new laws in Michigan, a movement in the U.K. to broaden the definition of [...]
Jan 10, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends, Youth | Tags: #stopcyberbullying, anger, anger management, anti-bullying legislation, anti-bullying policies, behavior, bullies, bullying, career, cyberbullying, Miley Cyrus, office, Social Media, Steve Jobs, teen suicides, Twitter, workplace | Leave A Comment »
This is the 12th in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. As I wrap up my series of predictions for the very near future, I want to go a bit more personal. I’m [...]
Dec 15, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: alone time, alpha male, BlackBerry, brain, braininess, cancer, cell phone, clean water, clothing swap, concussions, Connecticut, craniotomy, credit, cyberbullying, debt, dopamine, e-mail, female, forecasts, home office, Indo-Chinese spices, juggling, listening, Madoff, male, Mark Zuckerberg, mobmedia, NFL, real estate, reunion, soldiers, Stamford, TBIs, Technology, Time, transparency, traumatic brain injuries, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, tumor, tweet, Tyler Clementi, water, WikiLeaks | Leave A Comment »
When most people think of bullying, schoolyard scenes of children being terrorized by bigger kids often come to mind. I would never have thought about cyberbullying being a problem in today’s society. Although I grew up digital, cyberworld (or in today’s terms, social media) bullying never came up. According to Stop Cyberbullying, cyberbullying is “when [...]
Aug 29, 2010 | Categories:Features, Social Media, Technology | Tags: 4chan, Adrian Chen, Brands, bullying, child, cyberbullying, Gawker, Gawker Media, harassment, Internet, Jessi Slaughter, mobile phones, preteen, Social Media, Stop Bullying Now!, Stop Cyberbullying, teen, vlogger | Leave A Comment »
Trendspotting: Payback Time
Being obnoxious online now comes with a price. This year, two English football players were fined for posting homophobic tweets; a Swansea University student was sentenced to 56 days in jail for posting racist tweets about an ailing British footballer; an Indiana high school student was expelled after tweeting an F-bomb; and a U.S. Marine [...]
Jul 06, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media, Trends | Tags: ACLU, anonymous commenting, Australia Facebook, California, cyberbullying, Daytona 500, Fabrice Muamba, Facebook, Liam Stacey, Manhattan District Attorney’s office, Marine Twitter, Occupy Wall Street, online commenting, Social Media, social media accountability, social media punishment, social media trends, SoMe, Suneel Mehta, Swansea University, Trayvon Martin, Twitter | Leave A Comment »