California school district begins monitoring all students’ social media activity
Southern California's Glendale Unified School District will spend $40,000 this year to monitor its students' behavior on social networking sites. Students in Southern California may have a few more social media followers than they realize.

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California's Glendale Unified School District Hires Company To Track Students On Social Media
The program tracks the social media habits of about 13,000 high school and middle school students, according to the Glendale News Press. However, some parents and students feel that the program is an invasion of privacy. “I think it’s a bad

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If you've been waiting for the tipping point on social media to arrive, your wait may be over. Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released a report that shows nearly three quarters of all online adults

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