Best Practices for educational establishments Seeing this spurred us to analyse some of the negative impacts that could be suffered by your children through the erroneous use of social media. While the intentions of the campaign could be entirely harmless and are for the most part an attempt in attracting new registrations as well as …
As part of our ongoing analytical investigation into the cyber-bullying and cyber exploitation crisis that seem to be gradually on the rise in Sri Lanka and around the world, we decided to talk to the pros in the battlefield; The Grassrooted Trust, an organization that was established with the purpose of providing a “safe space” …
Fighting Mindsets – An Interview with Grassrooted Read More »
Here’s our latest weekly update on social media hot topics for the past week in Sri Lanka and across the world This week our team wrote about Our Blogs: Fighting Mindsets – An Interview with Grassrooted What Went Viral in Sri Lanka? Victor Rathnayake’s son’s social media outburst Victor Rathnayake and his recent marriage to …
Sri Lanka Weekly Social Media News Update 13/03/2017 Read More »
– Social Media Grooming, Rape and Murder – As part of our ongoing analytical endeavour to unmask as many pitfalls of cyber bullying and social media grooming possibilities that seem to be on the surge recently, we decided to speak about several instances of online grooming and how we can analyse situations carefully to avoid …
The inner-workings of a cyber-bully’s mind “Cyber-bullying is the use of information technology to repeatedly harm or harass other people in a deliberate manner. According to U.S. Legal Definitions, Cyber-bullying could be limited to posting rumours or gossips about a person in the internet bringing about hatred in other’s minds; or it may go to …
