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 [...]
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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 [...]
Angry, Unfiltered Words: The Digital Tattoo
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or a Tibetan Monastery, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the young boy that had walked away from his mother – and in the moments [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Wired Family App Update: After School
Every year it seems that a new app surfaces and is adopted by teens and young adults. In 2004 it was Facebook — which was only available to college students with a [...]
Andy Griffith, Dr. Breen and Hidden Apps
One of my all-time favorite TV shows when I was a kid was THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. In fact, years later while working in the video/film production business, our crew would [...]
Privacy: The Life & Times of Dinosaurs, Crocodiles and Ricky Ricardo
Last week I was speaking with my wife Mary Beth about her 30 years in the field of education. She joked and laughed about being a dinosaur. I responded by saying, [...]