Category: Tutorial
E-mail for Kids
Kids will need to sign up for their own e-mail account depending on their school projects or interactive accounts. Here are some helpful tips and guidelines to keep your kids safe and secure with their first e-mail account.
What is Instagram?
Have you seen this logo before? Either on your kids phone, iTouch? What is Instagram? You just got used to using Facebook. Your kids have accounts but haven't posted anything in months. Why do I always hear and see stuff coming from Instagram?
What is Instagram?
Instagram is a social media app with 100 million users. The application can link to an existing Facebook,Twitter, Tmblr, foursquare, Picassa account.
Istagram is a social media network built around photos. An Instagram user can take a picture or use an existing photo and resize it to a nice square image with filter options. The Instagram user can tag other users and use hashtags to better organize and interact with other Instagram users.
Typically people like to take artsy “Slice of Life” pictures and post them with hashtags to get more likes and increase their following.
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YouTube Safety Tips
YouTube Safety
We have all tried to be vigilant in monitoring what our kids do on the Internet. Even with my best intentions, my kids have often 'clicked too far' on YouTube. So what should a parent do to keep YouTube Safe? Keep reading for some technical and practical tips you can follow to keep YouTube entertaining and fun!
YouTube Safety Tip #1 – Turn on SafeSearch
I have previously written a post on how to turn on YouTube SafeSearch. See YouTube for Kids. The safe search will block all content that is identified as 'inappropriate, violent, lude.'
However, since I wrote that post, I have realized many shortcomings with this safesearch setting. This isn't a one-step solution. The Safesearch feature relies on YouTube users to be accurate in their descriptions and titles for their movies. As you can imagine with the millions of … Read More »
How to detect a Phishing scheme?
Phishing e-mails are designed to steal personal information by gaining access to your computer through malicious software. Phishing is any attempt to steal personal information while posing as a trusted source. This article will help you recognize and detect phishing attempts.
Because of the advances in security prevention and detection technologies, hackers have turned to exploit users in order to steal information or hack into company networks. Phishing e-mails are looking more and more legitimate.
How to Detect Phishing: What does a phishing email message look like?
Here is an example of what a phishing scam in an email message might look like. See the clues highlighted in the picture below.
How to Detect Phishing: 1. Impersonal greeting
The e-mail will have an impersonal greeting such as ‘Hello’ or ‘Webmail user.’ Companies which do store your information know your name and will have your name … Read More »
Snap Chat Mobile App
Snap Chat Mobile App – What is it?
SnapChat is a mobile app available on Apple and droid devices. that allows users to connect and take a picture and write a short message and share it with other Snapchat users that are listed as friends. You can set the time allowed to view the picture. Once the timer is up, the picture is no longer available on either the sender or receiver's phone.
SnapChat – Why Should I Worry?
1. SnapChat & Sexting
SnapChat was built seemingly to conquer the ill's of sexting and taking inappropriate pictures. Just look at the marketing picture provided by SnapChat. It's difficult to tell if those girls are clothed or not. Our kids should understand the consequences of taking and sending inappropriate pictures. This application may offer a false sense of privacy to young users.
2. SnapChat friends
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