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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 behind by Google Reader, and one that I think is actually a nicer product than the old standby.
Here’s how you do it.
“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 worse off as a result.
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 five hours a day and children were plugged in for nearly three hours.
Media-light families (16%), in which parents averaged less than two hours and children averaged about 1.5 hours of screen time each day.
“Parents set the family style,” Wartell says. “Children are not the driving force here.”
My kid is wasting time online. All they want to do is play video games. Should I limit their screen time? Video games are so violent today, should I be worried about that?
These are all common questions I get at parent seminars on social media. I get it. I really do. In our own house we face the same questions.
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.”
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.)
Facebook announced Tuesday that it had started a small test to let advertisers and agencies use Facebook Exchange (FBX) to serve retargeted ads — specifically called “Page post link ads” — to your News Feed, which, of course, is Facebook’s prime real estate. These ads take into account people’s browsing behavior outside Facebook, as captured through cookies, with the aim of offering up messages about products they’ve already shown interest in.
A lot of youth workers have been asking me about Snapchat, a mobile picture sharing service that is popular amongst some segments of teenagers.
I know there are some innocent uses out there. I’ve even heard from youth ministry folks who use it to connect with their students and crowd-source ideas. But I also know of some horror stories. Stories of regret and exposure to things their eyes didn’t want to see.