internet safety

To continue our "Are you ready for this?" series, I've received a slew of questions recently about when it's appropriate to give kids an e-reader or tablet like the NOOK Tablet and Kindle Fire . Overall the assumption is that they're a m…

It doesn't seem like a week goes by without Facebook making more changes to its privacy settings. The company gets a lot of flak for seemingly loosey-goosey privacy policies, but the forthcoming changes (and there are a lot of them) may …

It seems everyone is jumping on the location-based bandwagon, these days. But the big question has always been whether Foursquare is right for parents. For me, the answer is yes, but the safety issue is key. This is where some common sen…

Are your kids on Facebook yet? Mine is 8 years old, so I'm not yet at that worry stage. But I know that by the time he's ready for it, he'll also be dealing with so many other issues in his life that I'll want to know about. (Kinda glad …

Remember that song, "Parents Just Don't Understand?" Definitely a blast from the past, but every generation of kids thinks the same thing about their parents. What's different about Generation Z--aka the "Net Generation"--is that it's no…

I'm not quite ready to have all those internet safety for kids discussions. I'm already preparing myself for the moment when my oldest asks if he can set up a Facebook account. Granted, he doesn't even know what Facebook is, and he's in …

Have a question about tech? Whether you need recommendations, a source, or just something utterly splurgetastic to dream about, we're here for you. As these five posts of the past week demonstrate. 1. Got a question about online safety a…

We're so pleased to be partnering with our sponsor Capital One to help celebrate National Consumer Protection Week . We'll be sharing cool, smart surfing tips on how to keep you and your family's online privacy as safe as you can. Now we…

I love taking pictures and videos of my son and would like to email them with others but I am always concerned about where my shared pictures and videos may end up. I was wondering if you know of any websites that have a "sign-in" featur…

As my oldest reaches the age where she can read and potentially search the web on her own, I'm much more vigilant about privacy and safety online than I ever was before. Combine that with the growing use of social media outlets like Twit…

If you have kids old enough to play on the internet on their own, but not quite so old to do it without you wanting to be over their shoulders the entire time, you'll be as happy as I am about batteryPOP , a new online entertainment netw…

As familiar as I am with Internet ads, it's easy for me to forget that my kids do not, which is especially important now that my two oldest children are using the computer on a daily basis. Not matter how tech-savvy your kids are, this a…