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A Wired Family App Update: Live.ly
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By: Stephen J Smith NOTE: This video was first published in 2016. Live.ly has been purchased and is now part of Tik Tok — which was…

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A Wired Family App Update: Your Digital Tattoo
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If you  look around the pool, the office or your gym, you’ll notice more and more Americans are sporting tattoos. In fact, Pew Research reported in…

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A Wired Family App Update: MY3
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According to a July 2016 publication by the American Academy of Pediatrics,  Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children between the ages of 15-19…

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A Wired Family App Update: CRISIS TEXT LINE
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As I mentioned in our program on the MY3 app, an American Academy of Pediatrics report  from July 2016,  stated that Insert Graphic 2 suicide is…

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Privacy: Fingerprinting, Stingrays and Stick Figures
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The other day I pulled up behind a mini-van at a stoplight. I laughed at the stickers affixed to the driver’s back windshield: Hot Moms Drive…

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A Wired Family App Update: Tumblr
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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 that’s…

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A Wired Family App Update: Hot Or Not
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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…

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The New Pokémon Go App: Remote Trap, Dead Body and Other Family Fun
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Just when you thought there was a lull in the onslaught of apps for your child’s device – out pops Pokémon Go. On the surface, this…

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A Wired Family App Update: SnapChat’s Speed Filter
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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…

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Angry, Unfiltered Words: The Digital Tattoo
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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 –…

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