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5 Ways Social Media is affecting your Child's Body Image
Today, we’re going to explore five ways social media is harming your teen’s body image, and more importantly, what you can do to help it.
5 Dangerous Social Media Challenges Happening Right Now
For every harmless or well-intentioned challenge, there are darker social media challenges, too. What’s more, with how prominent the internet is, it’s easy for your children or teens to get caught up in these challenges.
3 Instagram Risks To Children
Instagram is popular. In fact, there are over 1 billion active members in 2021. Now, while the average age-range of those users is 25-34, Instagram’s terms of use allow anyone over 13 to have an account. However in our view, just because it may be allowed, doesn’t mean that it is necessarily a good idea!
5 Signs Your Child Is Being Bullied Online
The internet is vast — with over 1 billion destinations on the World Wide Web. With that, it’s often hard to track what your children or teens are up to online. For all you know, they could be victims of cyberbullying. What’s worse, if they are, chances are they won’t tell you about it.
Coming Soon - Online Safety & Wellbeing Master Class
Launching in 2024, we are super excited to announce our Online Safety & Wellbeing Master Class. This video-based course will teach you everything you need to know for keeping your Family safe, online & on social media.
Snapchat Dangers: Is It Safe For My Child?
If you’re here, it’s no doubt because your child has found their way onto Snapchat — the popular iOS and Android app developed by Evan Spiegel and other founders back in 2009. Now, let us be the first to tell you: as a parent, whatever concerns you may have about Snapchat aren’t unwarranted. For, like with all social media types, be it Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Snapchat can be a huge problem for young kids.
3 safe(r) messaging apps for kids
Last week we looked at 3 of the top risky texting and multi media messaging apps kids and teens use at the moment and why we strongly recommend avoiding them. This week, we want to give you some potential alternatives that are safer. When I say safer of course that doesn’t mean risk-free. Simply safer, with less risky features.
3 risky apps you need to know.
Learn about 3 apps we think are high risk for kids - and why you should care.
EU gov’t and public health sites are lousy with adtech, study finds
A study of tracking cookies running on government and public sector health websites in the European Union has found commercial adtech to be operating pervasively even in what should be core not-for-profit corners of the Internet.
How To Create Healthy Social Media Ecosystems In The Era Of The 'Momo Challenge'
45% of the total world population are using social networks. Global social media advertising spending increased by 32% in 2018, and it does deliver business results.
The social apps teenagers are using — and keeping him or her safe online
Keeping up with the social messaging apps used by today's teenagers can feel overwhelming.
Teen screen time linked to feelings of loneliness
A new study has found that as digital media use has increased among teens who are part of Generation Z, aptly dubbed iGen, so have their feelings of loneliness and depression.
Why Instagram’s anti-vaccine problem isn’t surprising
The image-based platform has for years been a gold mine for hucksters selling medical misinformation or outright lies.
Facebook Admits It Can't Control Facebook Live -- Is This The End For Live Streaming?
In the aftermath of Christchurch has come the admission from Facebook that they can’t control Facebook Live. There’s too much content in general but not enough abhorrent content in particular to properly train their AI.
EU member state websites laden with third-party cookies
A new report reveals that the vast majority of EU member state websites are laden with third-party cookies that are not disclosed to visitors.
How does taking a break from social media really affect your mental health?
Psychologists believe social media can affect users both positively and negatively, depending on how they use it.
I didn't delete social media, but this small tweak I made to my social media feeds has had a huge effect on my happiness
Research has begun to show that constant connection to the digital world may have a negative impact on users' mental health.
SMART TOYS BRING OPPORTUNITIES AND PRIVACY CONCERNS TO PLAY
The smart toy industry has been plagued with security and privacy concerns, including MiSafe’s smartwatch which was found to be easy to hack, revealing unencrypted data including the child’s name, weight, date of birth, and the parent’s phone number.
Your Health Data Are a Gold Mine for Advertisers
In the hospital and at home, illness data can be lucrative.
Privacy Tops List of Consumer Smart Home Concerns
PCMag surveyed more than 2,000 US consumers about smart home preferences, including their biggest concerns with the technology. Unsurprisingly, privacy was number one.