Technology Resources
Our Technology guru, Jonathan Wylie, offers tips and resources for the whole family.
Kids today are so comfortable with technology that some of them can just pick your iPhone up and instinctively know what to do with it–even if you haven’t figured out how half the apps work. For some of More »
Tags: Bullying, Child, Child Safety, Cyber-bullying, Facebook, Internet safety, iPhone, Parent
Skype and Facebook: Friends for Life
By Jonathan Wylie
This week Skype and Facebook teamed up to offer a seemingly natural integration between their respective platforms. In Facebook you can now make video calls, and in Skype you can now post updates to your wall, instant message your friends, ‘Like’ comments and more. Here’s how it works.
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Tags: Facebook, Instant messaging, Skype, Social Network, technology, Videotelephony
No Laughing Matter
By Renee Bogacz
Yesterday morning, I checked Facebook and noticed that one person I am friends with had made many, many posts on another friend’s page. I’m talking 50 or 60 posts. I cringed because I knew what this meant: I was eventually going to see a comment something More »
Tags: Facebook, Rape, Sexual assault, teens
Play It Safe: Parents’ Role in Technology
By Renee Bogacz
Recently, The Huffungton Post published articles (one here and another here) where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg talks about his position regarding whether children younger than thirteen should be using Facebook: he says yes. One article indicates that according to research done by Consumer Reports, there are already 7.5 More »
Tags: Consumer Reports, Facebook, Internet safety, Mark Zuckerberg, Online Communities, Safety Mode, Social Network, technology, YouTube
Moving Up! Meeting the Needs of Middle School Girls
By Evangelia Biddy
Growing up girl is definitely not what it was even a few years ago! Today’s girls receive so many confusing messages via popular music and media that focuses on sexualized images of girlhood, consumerism, violence and the unattainable body images presented in teen and young adult magazines. A More »
Tags: education, Facebook, girls, K through 12, media, middle school, MySpace, peer pressure, Philadelphia, self-esteem, United States, Youth
A Facebook Guide for Parents: Taming the Social Network
By Jonathon Wylie
Facebook is a global phenomenon. It has over 500 million active users that post around 30 billion links, stories, posts, photos, and news items each month. However, Facebook can be a constant source of worry for parents. Its privacy settings always seem to be in the news, and More »
Tags: Facebook, Social Network, technology
