If your kids spend their nights using cell phone when they should be rather sleeping, it’s an intimidation that your kids can affect their grades, health and social life. The issue seems thorny at the first glance, and no doubt, it’s not something that parents can ignore, but with some tools available, parents can easily […]
The first lesson that parents usually teach their kids is to never talk to strangers. And this parenting lesson is generic across generations and cultures for a good reason. In real life, it’s very much easily avoided, but when it comes to internet, it’s not that easy. Users are encouraged often to interact with anons. […]
It’s a universal truth—in a world that’s agglomerated with technology, much of our communications embrace it. So be it social interaction, or building relationships, it’s not shocking at all to see how even teens are using social media to explore their sexuality. And one such app that’s used for this purpose is DOWN. DOWN—what exactly […]
Last year was more like a technological breakthrough for new apps. For parents who are always busy with their usual stuff i.e. work and only work, it was just another year of hardships to keep up with the technological trends. But parents who are worried about their kids never take a break from keeping their […]
You have debated with your kids about getting them a smartphone, and finally the time has come: You are getting a smartphone for your child! No doubt, it’s a very big step, after all, it’s about getting them access to almost everything that’s placed over the internet. But you need to ensure that your child’s […]
In the first part, we discussed top IM and dating apps that parents should have their eyes own. They include Snapchat, Kik, Tinder, Blendr, Omegle and Down. Now, we need to discuss the “Anonymous apps”. These are the apps that can let users to post without revealing their identity. So this would mean that when […]
Samantha had taken every possible precaution required to keep her daughter safe from online threats like that emanating from predators, harassers and stalkers roaming around in the digital world. She knew of all her daughter’s friends, online and offline— and had also installed parental controls like Netnanny on her computer, ensuring she was providing her […]
Just 11 months ago, a video streamed over internet that took everyone by storm—a video by a father whose daughter was bullied. Diedra, an adopted and an African american child, who received several messages containing bullying and racial slurs. The bullies were from her school who had sent her messages using a very famous social […]
A new application is still on its way to hit app stores late this November but has already attracted a lot of controversy even before its release. Peeple is the first of its kind, which let user to rate other people. It works just like Yelp, except that it doesn’t rate restaurants, hotels, businesses or […]
Health apps are gaining some popularity, especially after smartwatches came into the business with health sensors like heart rate monitors, gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer etc. while we have these dedicated sensors each one for a specific purpose, there is a lot that can be learned through tracking the variation in the vocals of a person that […]