Archive for the ‘Social media’ Category
We know we live in a digitally connected society, with 92% of adults attached to their cell phones, 52% of them are fully engaged in social media (Facebook being their favorite by 71%) and now research has revealed that it’s not only women (which has been leading the social media force) men have arrived! In […]
If you haven’t seen the social media experiment video that has gone viral by now, it’s about time you view it and share it. (Kudos to Colby Persin for addressing an important topic.) Let’s take some facts. 92% of teens visit the Internet on a daily basis, as a matter of fact, 24% of them […]
I am someone that truly knows the gift of social media. The support it can give you when you are feeling down. The friends you can make and the groups you can join that have common interests. PEW Research just released their latest study on Social Media, Teens and Friendship. Like adults, teenagers can find […]
Today almost everyone, not only teenagers, are connected to social media. A Pew Research Center study found that 92 percent of U.S. teenagers use social networks at least once a day, with 24 percent reporting that they are online “almost constantly.” Adults love their social media too. According to PEW Research Center study, 74 percent […]
My colleague and good friend Chris Duque has a phrase I love, #TechnologyDoneRight. He refers to it when we see the kindness and good things that social media and tech has done for many people and kids. Recently I wrote about how teens reached out with their digital wisdom in helping others. Then we have […]
June is Internet Safety Month. It’s great that we designate a month for Internet Safety Awareness, as we do for Bullying and Cyberbullying Awareness in October, but this doesn’t mean that we ignore it the other eleven months of the year. I think it is great we will see many articles and resources through this […]
One of my constant mantra’s is offline parenting will help your kids, and especially teen’s, make better online choices. The fact is when your children are in their digital world’s you are not there to protect there. With all the parental controls, filters and monitoring, your teen is in that moment and will make that […]
Research was just released by GlobalWebIndex that shows adults love social media almost as much as the kids do. The average adult spends one in four online minutes on social media according to the recent research. What is the most popular social media platform for adults? Facebook – by far it revealed, as did the […]