A proposed federal law would prohibit schools and libraries from allowing access to social networking Web sites or chat rooms. It was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) in May. The Deleting Online Predators Act would require public schools and libraries to bar minors from "commercial social networking Web sites" and "chat rooms," such as MySpace and Facebook.

A proposed federal law would prohibit schools and libraries from allowing access to social networking Web sites or chat rooms. It was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) in May. The Deleting Online Predators Act would require public schools and libraries to bar minors from "commercial social networking Web sites" and "chat rooms," such as MySpace and Faceboo

Some say it is right, some say it is wrong, but everyone agrees it's a way to save money. For people who download music, it's a matter of thrift and convenience to get music from many different Internet sources. For people opposed to it, it is stealing or pirating copyrighted material. Teens who download music have used the argument "one more person won't hurt" many times since Shawn Fanning, crea

Imagine you arrive home from school, exhausted. You plop down in front of the computer, and an e-mail pops up from someone you've never met, pouring her heart out about her suicidal thoughts. For most teens, this would be terrifying, but the young volunteers at Teen Advice Online receive e-mails like this almost every day. Teen Advice Online, or TAO, is a Web-based organization that uses a team of

"Cyberathlete Amateur League." An online training camp for athletes? A new fantasy football league? How about a massive cyber-network of video-game players, meeting online to play games such as Halo, Doom or Counter-Strike competitively? To most people, being an athlete involves things such as kicking a soccer ball into a net, turning a somersault or scoring touchdowns. But at the Cyberathlete Ama

This is the second of two Y-Press stories on blogs. To read the April 16 story, visit www.indystar.com/living. When Christopher Columbus set out for India, he didn't even have an accurate map. Today, millions of people are setting out into another uncharted territory called the Internet. Never before has so much information been so readily accessible to so many people. While much focus has been on

This is the first of two Y-Press stories about blogs. On April 23, Y-Press will examine new uses for blogs, such as in classrooms and in advertising. 'Instruct your children to never arrange a face-to-face meeting with someone they met online; to never upload (post) pictures of themselves onto the Internet or online service to people they do not personally know; to never give out identifying infor