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How to keep teens safe on social media as cyberbullying, online impersonation cases persist

When rumors about 19-year-old DJ Phillips, of Macomb County, began spreading online, almost everyone believed them. The posts looked real. The account looked real. And for a while, DJ kept to himself and didn’t report what was happening. Now that DJ has shared his story, Carrie Krawiec, a licensed marriage and family therapist at Birmingham Maple Clinic and Peter Hoffman, an Ok2Say program specialist, joined Local 4 to discuss how parents can keep teens safe on social media.