A Wired Family Update: PART 1 Social Media & Teen Depression
This year we have had more parent presentations than in any of the last 5 years. It’s been great meeting so many parents from across Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. However, we [...]
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A Wired Family App Update: Tumblr
I’ve been using Tumblr to distribute my articles for about two years. However, I’ve spent very little time reading other people’s content… until recently… and [...]
A Wired Family App Update: Hot Or Not
Growing up can be difficult. Teens are almost by design concerned with how they look, sound and whether they fit in. Many of today’s apps don’t help – as many teens are [...]
A Wired Family App Update: SnapChat’s Speed Filter
Recently an 18 year-old woman in Georgia, was allegedly using an app while driving three of her friends home in her dad’s Mercedes. The young woman apparently wanted to [...]
Managing Your Home’s Router & Network: Beam Me Up Grandma!
Recently I was speaking to a group of parents that were frustrated with the hoops they must jump through to manage their family’s wireless networks. So many households [...]
How To Secure Your Privacy Settings On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Vine
The question I get the most from parents and students generally relates to, “How do I adjust my privacy settings on social media”? Since there are so many [...]
Jailbreaking & Rooting: All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
Over the past few months I’ve seen more and more interest by teens to jailbreak or Root their phones. For most parents those are foreign terms. However, in reality your [...]
What’s In A name: Apple, Microsoft & the New Peach App
I started my career in the technology business at the intersection of stuffed white shirts and T-shirts and jeans. That was in the spring of 1981 when the honeysuckle and [...]
A Wired Family App Update: 4Chan
As I mentioned in my October 6th blog titled: Today’s Headlines: 4Chan, Katy Perry & DewPie most of us have not heard of 4Chan. However, it played at least a small [...]
Today’s Headlines: 4Chan, Katy Perry & PewDiePie
For many Americans, the first we’d heard of the 4Chan site was following the deadly mass school shootings in Oregon on October 1st of this year. The attacker had posted [...]