The Facebook Conspiracy – Cambridge Analytica – What Now?
The great Facebook Conspiracy you cry! How could they do this? I can't believe how much of an intrusion into my privacy this is. I am so glad Cambridge Analytica alerted us to this! Facebook conspiracy, who cares! These are all things you have probably heard or...
‘TBH’ To Be Honest and Facebook – The Acquisition
TBH is short for To Be Honest – a new app released by it’s developers Midnight Labs in Oakland. TBH was released to help people feel good and after initially launching in a school in Georgia, it spread like wild fire and was in thousands of schools within...
Live Streaming Platforms Becoming the Channels of choice for Sex Offenders
Live streaming has been gaining more and more traction throughout 2017. 2018 is just around the corner and it’s predicted that in the next year, video is going to account for nearly 80% of traffic on line. How is that? Well live streaming is going to play...
2 Step Verification – Your Teenager – Why You Need It
What is 2 Step Verification ? Firstly 2 step verification is not new and has been around for a number of years. Most, if not all of the major social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp have a feature within their...
Back To School – Proud Paparazzi Parents
It's back to school time and therefore social media channels are flooded. Flooded with the images of our children in their uniforms ready for the first day. Either the first day of school ever, or going into a new grade. It's a time of pride and also...
Roblox – what is it? And what do parents need to know?
Roblox itself is not a bad thing. It's a multi player online game platform that actually encourages young developers and gamers to create their own games. Not a bad thing at all. In fact if they are going to spend time looking at screens, which they are and will...
Resurgence of SimSimi (pronounced ShimShimi)
Welcome back Sim Simi! This previously not well known Korean app has been around since 2012. It's pronounced ShimShimi and is actually the Korean for 'bored'. The little yellow ball with a personality is a chat bot that learns from all the conversations...
Parents – Snap Codes – What you need to know!
Some of you may be aware that Snapchat has been in the news quite a lot recently. They went to IPO not long ago and were touted as the most valuable stock on the market. That wasn't strictly true, but they've been talked about a lot and more and more people are...
Monkey App – Get Facetime with people you don’t know on the internet
Two teenagers have developed an app that allows you to connect with people you don't know and have a video chat with them! Ben Pastarnak, one of the developers of the app, 17 years old, suggests that in the first 5 weeks of being launched the app...
Instagram Live and Your Disappearing Content
So Instagram has been taking a lot of queues from one of it's main competitors in the fight to keep users interested. Earlier Instagram stories was introduced - can you say SnapChat - and now Instagram Live is coming. Well, for some parts of the world it's here, but...
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