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Facebook Announces Suicide Prevention Plans

By Lisa Shaw – April 6, 2012

Suicide prevention is making headway online.  Social media is often similar to what is happening in real life.   In fact, social media is real life to many people. In the wake of the suicide of a 31-year-old Taiwanese woman who told friends on Facebook she was planning to kill herself, Facebook’s managers announced they have plans to work with other leading websites to provide more robust suicide prevention resources to web users.

Read the article here:  http://abcn.ws/ISapoJ

 

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What do five kids ranging in age from kindergarten to high school, a Harvard MBA and years of protecting kids online get you? It gets you Lisa Shaw, COO of her very busy household, and a Senior Director at SpectorSoft, the number one leader in monitoring and protecting your kids online. She's an expert on the technology and trends that you need to arm yourself with to be the best parent you can be in today’s digital world.

One Response

  1. TopPop says:
    May 11, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    Suicide … a parent’s worst nightmare … can’t imagine it and hope I never experience it. Learning more here will help, I know …

    Reply

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