Category: social media
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Migrate to Feedly Now!
If you use Google Reader you’ve seen this every day for weeks. So, if you read my blog via Google Reader, and about a thousand people do, you need to act now. Here’s how you fix it in about 60 seconds. You just move to Feedly. It’s a free service that’s filling the void left…
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Why Blog Comments are Necessary
“I don’t comment on blogs anymore. I don’t see the point.” This has sadly become more the norm. To put it politely, engaging with blog content has morphed from leaving comments and engaging with the author to liking or sharing on social media and only engaging with your own self-cultivated audience. And the world is…
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Should we worry about our kids screen time?
Media-centric families (39% of the sample), in which parents used electronic media for an average of 11 hours a day and children averaged 4.5 hours. These families were most likely to leave TVs on most of the time (48%) and put TVs in children’s rooms (44%). Media-moderate families (45%), in which parents used media nearly…
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How to Lose an Internet Debate
Ah, the internet debate. The NASCAR of the web. Simultaneously enjoyable and infuriating. Dangerous and alluring. Two sides duke it out in a non-face-to-face battle of “intellects.”
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Should I filter the internet for my teenager?
Should I filter the internet for my teenager? My default answer to this question is “No.” I think it’s better to set-up healthy internet habits which you can all agree on and abide by. (Meaning parents follow the same rules as teenagers.)
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In Social Media You Are the Product
You are not a social media customer, you are the product. In this post Adam McLane tells users about a change to the way Facebook delivers ads and what to do about it.
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Making Sense of Social Media for People Who Don’t Get It
Some people just don’t get social media. They know all about it but they just can’t answer the “why” question. In this post, we dig into one “why” reason.
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Sexting and the Attack on the American Teenager
This is what I call “The Slow News Day” story Make no bones about it, stories like this raise eyebrows and get people talking. When USA Today ran this piece last week it was run and rerun over and over again at newspapers around the country. It is a well-articulated story. It seems so… true.…
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Talking to Parents about Principles of Social Media
Last week, I had the opportunity to spend some time chatting to Paul Turner, a longtime friend in youth ministry from the great state of Alabama, about some of the principles we teach in A Parent’s Guide to Social Media.
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Snapchat: Good for teenagers?
Snapchat is popular photo sharing service among some segments of teenagers. In this post, Adam McLane points to some principles that should help navigate teenagers away from the service.