In March, 15-year-old Joshua Brumfield got a shiny new BlackBerry Pearl, and his parents got a new way to watch out for their son. The Brumfields signed up to be early users of Radar, software ...

MIDDLETOWN — Emerging software is granting parents more significant access to their children’s behavior on social networking sites. Programs such as SafetyWeb or Checkpoint’s ZoneAlarm are designed to ...

(WSPA) – With new apps that pop up every day, it’s hard for parents to keep track of what might be harmful to their teens. In this Consumer Exclusive, 7NEWS Here to Help got expert advice and some ...

Sam Chapman and his wife, Dr. Laura Berman’s, 16-year-old son, Sammy, died after taking a pill he bought on a social media platform that they believe was laced with fentanyl. The parents say their son ...

WASHINGTON - After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - dramatically, as it turns out - and these ...

Net Nanny Mobile Needs Some Work As ever more children and teens carry cellphones, some parents may opt for mobile monitoring software. But as Jonnelle Marte and Lauren Goode find, one provider, Net ...

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) - Social media is going mobile. And the dangers for young people online are traveling with them. "In the last 30 days, 27 percent of parents found objectionable content on ...

You walk into your child’s room and there it is: her cell phone, left unattended on the nightstand. Do you grab it and give it a quick browse? Check who she’s texting, what her text messages say, what ...