Technology

Encouraging Safe Surfing Habits with Teens

December 7, 2011

Childhood is nothing like what we experienced when we were growing up, fellow Boomers. When I was a kid the only trouble we could really get into was with drugs, alcohol and — for boys way more socially advanced than I was — girls. Nowadays the online world has opened up a Pandora’s Box of [...]

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How Will Texting Teenagers Fare in Future Business Communications?

July 16, 2011

It’s typical today to see a crowd of teenagers sitting together, and at least half of them sticking their noses into their cell phones while texting someone. In fact, most teenagers are becoming more comfortable with texting as a way to interact than actual face-to-face conversation. Teenagers have embraced text messaging as their main form [...]

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7 Sites and Apps for Expectant Parents

May 3, 2011

Expectant parents, especially if it’s their first child, spend more time than almost any other group surfing the net for information and ideas. This exciting and anxiety-filled time brings about more questions than any non-parent could ever imagine. To satisfy your quest for knowledge about all things natal, check out these pregnancy-oriented sites and apps: [...]

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Parental Controls for Television

March 10, 2011

My two boys, now eight and ten, enjoy watching television while I prepare dinner. They especially love being in charge of the remote, like most boys do. In the past, they would stumble across programming that was unsuitable, and I would find myself constantly having to check in on them or taking the remote from [...]

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Need to Know: Social Mapping and Your Child on the Internet

March 10, 2011

What is social mapping? Social mapping is a process where information about online use is used to create a map of historic usage, as well as a predictor of future digital usage for a person. It is basically a way of creating a digital fingerprint for a person. It is a collection of data about [...]

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Texting: The New Way for Kids to Be Rude

March 9, 2011

” My 14 year old daughter is a texting addict! She will even sit and text when our family is at a restaurant. It drives me nuts. If I tell her to stop, she just does it under the table. It’s like this little secret that we can’t be in on, plus it’s just plain [...]

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