The Girl Scouts Tackle Online Safety

Have you ever been cyberbullied or approached by a sexual predator while online? Do you know all the do’s and don’ts of online safety? If you’re like many teens, your parents are the ones who try to talk with you about how to be safe while blogging, IMing, Facebooking (is that a word?), and the like, but do they really know enough about what you’re doing online and how the technology works to be helpful?

Enter LMK: Life Online. Created by the Girl Scouts (in partnership with Microsoft), LMK was created to empower you so you can educate others on the reality of being a teen online and help adults understand the real issues that affect you every day. The cooly-designed, interactive experience allows girls to share their online concerns with peer “tech-perts” about the issues that affect them while raising awareness about how to help keep girls safe while surfing the Web.

Every month on LMK, the all-girl editorial board explores a different internet safety topic, including: Social Networking, Online Sexual Predators, Cyberbullying, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Netiquette, and many more. Each topic is explored through articles, quizzes, and videos.

I love this site… kudos to the Girl Scouts and Microsoft for empowering girls to be smart about their online lives!