Search results for: “snapchat”
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What’s the deal with Burnbook?
Last week, San Diego county schools went coo coo for cocoa puffs about the social media app Burnbook. Megan, our 8th grader, missed school on Monday. When she came home on Tuesday she said the joke on campus was an assembly she missed on Monday. “No one had the app or had even heard of Burnbook.…
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Social Media Safety and Security
Uh oh. Something went wrong with several social media applications late last night. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were unable to use Facebook and Instagram for around an hour today. Hackers from online group Lizard Squad have claimed they shut down the two sites at around 6am GMT – but Mark Zuckerberg’s social media…
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What is Swipe?
Question from a middle school administrator – Over break I was invited by students and former students to JoinSwipe. It has a smiley face. What do you think of this app? What is it? Any advice would be great. What is Swipe? First off, their logo is a wink. The logo alone is a bit of a…
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Why Ephemeral Matters
Ephemeral – lasting for a very short time. “fashions are ephemeral” synonyms: transitory, transient, fleeting, passing, short-lived, momentary, brief, short In the social media world, most of what took off and gained traction among teenagers and young adults in 2014 fall into the category of Ephemeral Apps. Things like Snapchat, Tinder, Yik Yak, and others are built…
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A Call for a Better Adult Verification System
“How many of you guys have a cell phone?” [most hands go up] How many of you guys have an account on Instagram or Snapchat?” [nearly the same amount of hands go up] This gymnasium of 4th through 6th graders in Northwest Kansas was just another example of our failed Adult Verification System. “Age gating”—…
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Yik Yak Threats Are a Bad Idea
CBS News 8 – San Diego, CA News Station – KFMB Channel 8 [Link to the above video – I appear in a phone interview talking about the situation at Torrey Pines High School and Yik Yak, in general.] Yik Yak has a problem. The harder they try to market themselves as an app for college…
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Paris? As in France?
As I write this, Kristen is on her way to meet me in New York so we can continue on to Paris, France (for Open Paris) and St. Andrews, Scotland. (to visit friends) That’s as weird a sentence to write as it likely is for readers to read. It’s Always a Big Deal This year…
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Speaking Opportunities for 2015
With the latest round of social media leaks making waves today, this time impacting Snapchat users, I’m in the odd place of looking like an Old Testament prophet. I’m not a prophet. I simply applied long-standing principles of social media to the current wave of ephemeral apps popular today. And here’s the deal: I love to share those…
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When should I allow my children to get a social media account?
In the past 6 months I’ve spoken to dozens of parent groups, seeking to build understanding between parent and child about social media. The highlight, for most parents, is an unlimited free-for-all Q&A. Without fail, a parent will ask me… “What is the right age to allow my child to get [insert social media app…
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The Power of Understanding
Five months later, I’m still processing some lessons from the explosion of the Snapchat post. In a week, nearly 4 million people read something I wrote, it was exciting and terrifying at the same time. It was a confusing dream come true for a blogger. It was awesome. Who doesn’t want a few million people reading something they’ve…