Social Media, Apps and your Tween
Technology has been a wonderful addition to our world, with many great benefits. Those benefits have come bundled with dangers. In this series, I’ve outlined the benefits and dangers of several… Read more »
Tag: social media
Social Media Highlight: Snapchat
Snapchat Overview Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app most popular with millenials and younger. While the site stared with individual users only, it has evolved to include companies and personalities. Users create… Read more »
Social Media Highlight: Skype
Skype Overview Skype is a free messaging, and video and voice calling app that lets you send images, video, text, audio, or documents. Communication from Skype to Skype users is free; SMS and calls… Read more »
Social Media Highlight: YouTube
YouTube Overview YouTube is the premier video sharing website in the world, and it is owned by Google. The sites’ users are both individuals and companies. YouTubers (people who use… Read more »
Social Media Highlight – Whatsapp
WhatsApp Overview WhatsApp was launched in 2010. It is an ad-free, encrypted, free messaging, and video and voice calling app that lets you send images, video, text, audio, or documents (up… Read more »
Social Media Highlight – Instagram
Instagram Overview Instagram is an app first released in 2012. According to its website, Instagram is a “free photo and video sharing app”. Although the company doesn’t use those words, it is… Read more »
Social Media Highlight: Musical.ly
Overview of Musical.ly Musical.ly is an app first released in 2014. It lets children create and share music videos 15 s – 5 minutes long. In addition to home grown stars,… Read more »
Under 13 in the Online World
What is COPPA Thirteen seems to be a magic number for children to create and access accounts on the Internet. This is due to the Child’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),… Read more »