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One in seven parents has found unsuitable content on their child’s mobile device

There’s a new wave of apps helping kids learn while they tap away. From helping them organise their revision schedule, practicing their arithmetic or learning one of the most difficult subjects to teach, apps are becoming an increasingly popular way for students to learn and for teachers to teach.

Whether they are chatting to their friends on Xbox Live or FaceTime or viewing their profiles on Instagram, these days it seems that there is always a virtual guest in our house.

Facebook has launched a photo-messaging app one week after accidentally releasing it on Apple's app store. Known as Slingshot, the app's features include sharing photos and videos with friends and sending "reaction shots".

Twitter has told Newsbeat it continues to "learn" about the best way to keep its users safe.

Children's unorthodox spelling and grammar while texting does not stop them learning the rules of formal English, suggests research.

The mother of a teenage girl who took her own life is warning about the pressures social media can have on vulnerable people.

A total of 1,544 UK 16-24s were recently surveyed and able to say whether they like, love, dislike or hate Snapchat – or whether they have no feeling towards the app.

New research from AVG Technologies indicates technology is accelerating the end of childhood innocence by making parents discuss awkward adult topics sooner

The stereotype of the Twitter troll is of a sexually aggressive male, so when Natasha Devon found herself a victim of manipulative female trolls, she was completely unprepared

The Well Versed project has finished and the result is an esafety film created by teenagers who love, live and breathe the internet.

Post-exam discussions about what answers you gave have been replaced by social media frenzies, writes a student blogger

Video games are getting scarier - much scarier. Is a line about to be crossed?

Facebook has revealed a new photo-messaging app after accidentally releasing it on Apple's app store. Known as Slingshot, the app's features include sharing photos and videos with friends and sending "reaction shots". Like Snapchat, all images are deleted once sent and users can scribble or type over their photos.

A disturbing internet creation is being blamed for a series of near fatal stabbings - carried out by children.

'Every time I criticised her, she would post screenshots and get more support which would make me even angrier'

A stand-in teacher has been banned from the classroom for sending sexually explicit Facebook messages to a pupil after prom night.

The most bizarre aspect of the case by far, though, is the involvement of Slender Man, an internet phenomenon that's sent journalists around the world scrambling for their Google machines with predictably miserable results.

The US Secret Service is seeking a Twitter sarcasm detector. The agency has put out a work tender looking for a software system to analyse social media data. The software should have, among other things, the "ability to detect sarcasm and false positives".

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