Teens in the digital age embrace technology extremely quickly. Many of the older generations become entrenched in a platform and are reluctant to change. This is not the case with teenagers. When they see a new platform to try, often…
New social media apps are born just about every day. Some of them explode in popularity, while others end up on the discard heap with the other “never was” or out of date applications. It is difficult for parents to…
A while ago my sister came to me desperate to find a way to monitor her teenager’s phone activities. I helped her get something installed and she handed the phones back over to her children. Her daughter immediately lost her…
We are all about starting conversations about technology user. Kids with Android devices will send notifications to their parents’ Android or iOS device when new app installs are performed but our iOS child mode is growing fast lately so here are top 10 apps that chat with your…
We have our very popular Always Allowed app list feature where parents can choose apps they feel are of high quality for screen time use. Once on this list, these apps do not count down the child’s daily usage limit. Typically we see parents adding apps…
Written by Sarah Kimmel from Family Tech Zone. We live in a social world where we feel compelled to take pictures of our lunch and post them online for all of our friends to see, and comment, and like. Everywhere you…
It can all start with an innocent photo or comment… We live in a world now where Social Media surrounds us and has become an extension of our social lives. Yet, as adults, we don’t seem to know a lot about it…
About Snapchat Snapchat allows users to capture and send photos and short videos that self-destruct after a certain amount of time. The user sending the post decides how long the snap will live for (between 1 to 10 seconds) on the…
Children are definitely visual beings and social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat are enabling a world of visual sharing that wasn’t possible even just 4-5 years ago. I previously wrote about why my son wanted an Instagram account and…
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