Adults Face Fears about CyberBullying

Jennifer Pittman wrote an article in The Santa Cruz Sentinental about adults coming face to face with the issue of teen cyberbullying.

She writes:

SANTA CRUZ -- Adults who ignore the unfamiliar and sometimes daunting world of the Internet often fail to offer children and youth much needed guidance about safe and appropriate online activities, according to experts who spoke Friday at the 12th annual Jon Nadherny/Calciano Memorial Youth Symposium.

"Kids are growing up inside the Internet," said Frank Farley, professor at Temple University and former president of the American Psychological Association.

Farley, a keynote speaker for "Cyberpsychology: The Internet and Youth in the New Millennium," held at the Cocoanut Grove in Santa Cruz, calls himself "a digital immigrant" who struggles to understand the Internet world of his own two teens.

"They're not consumers of it; they live there," Farley said.

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