Ever more mobile social Web
Like our children now, we in the future may have so many people in our phone address books that we’ll need help remembering where we met them. At least that’s what Yahoo’s new social app for phones...
View ArticleCellphone to be No. 1 access tool: Study
By 2020, the mobile phone will be the main tool for connecting to the Internet for most of the world’s people, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s latest “Internet Evolution”...
View ArticleOf mobile social networkers: Survey
This is a pretty digitally advanced group (active mobile social-networking users aged 16-52), and itsmy.com was surveying 15,000 of its own users, but the findings from this big early-adopting group...
View ArticleParental social networkers multiplying
Well, an actual group labeled “parents” wasn’t measured, but I suspect parents figured prominently in a Nielsen study that found 35-to-49-year-olds are the fastest-growing group in social-network...
View ArticleCellphones = wireless connected computers
Landlines may be going away (see CNET), but don’t think of cellphones merely as their replacement for voice communications – at least not if you’re a parent. Because to get a better handle on how young...
View ArticleMobile Net use not just kid stuff: Study
Every day, it seems, the social, media-sharing Web is more mobile and cellphones are used more as full-blown computers – and not just by people under 18! The latest Pew/Internet study , released today,...
View ArticleGood or bad ‘Deals’ for FB users?
Add the mobile piece to social shopping + social networking and we just might have a new killer app (i.e., huge uptake). What I’m talking about is Facebook’s just-announced “Deals.” Analysts are saying...
View ArticleParents’ own cyberbullying struggles
The parents of kids targeted by digital bullying and harassment often face some serious challenges of their own, as they work toward ending a child’s ordeal. That’s a key take-away from New York Times...
View ArticleIndia’s very mobile social networking
US parents may be interested to see the Times of India’s account of single mom Darshana Verma “who never learned to use a computer and saved for 10 months,” spending more than half a month’s income on...
View ArticleThe meta-trend behind the teen (& everybody) mobile trend
As the news stories about teens’ mainly mobile (digital) socializing multiply, parents seem to be turning a corner too. Monitoring kids on Facebook is “so 2009,” Yahoo! News reports. Even the very...
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