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Facebook has released a new Location feature that already has critics — including the ACLU — worried about privacy concerns. As someone with a Facebook account, I found myself once again wondering why it was that I was hearing of new features on Facebook from news sources, rather than being notified of them when logging [...]

This article is part of an online course: Digital and Social Media Ethics for Psychotherapists for 8 CE credits Media psychology To begin with, let’s be clear that media psychology has some competing definitions. A new generation of media psychologists is fighting to make clear distinctions between the traditional view of media psychologists: clinical psychologists [...]

Last February, the Google Buzz fiasco affected lots of people who did not want their email relationships exposed to the world. At the time, Dr. Kathleen Young and I shot a bunch of emails back and forth sharing our concerns over the situation. Dr. Young, who also maintains a professional Twitter account pointed out to [...]

Facebook released news of some big privacy changes this week. As always, changes that affect our privacy settings are important to  fully understand. The biggest changes allow third-party websites to access and store information about individual users. You can find out more information here along with some instructions on how to restrict information. Just to [...]

I have been getting frequent requests for certain archived blog posts on Social Media for therapists. As a result, I’ve decided to compile them on a separate page. I will continue to blog here, but I am launching a new page: For Clinicians Using Social Media on which I will summarize all of the posts [...]