Some of the funniest Twitter responses to #GoogleCalendarDown
If you’ve tried to access your Google Calendar on your desktop (or laptop) today, you might have gotten a 404 error. And as people do these days, they took to Twitter to air their grievances about being without a calendar. Though, the Google Calendar app on...
Tokimeki Unfollow helps you Konmari your Twitter feed
We know lots of folks have been cleaning up their social media feeds, which is why we had to share Tokimeki Unfollow, a twitter plug-in that allows you to Konmari your Twitter feed. Related: Spring cleaning your tech – the best tips and tricks Once you sync...
How do I keep kids safe on social media? | Guide to Digital Parenting
We couldn’t create an Ultimate Guide to Digital Parenting without including tips about how to keep your kids safe on social media. After all, for our tweens and teens, the Internet is social media, and they could sooner give up the games, the videos, and even...
Web cool: Game controllers for users with disabilities, a gold Royal Wedding iPhone X, and the smart luggage ban
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them too! Some of our favorite tweets about the Royal Wedding. Yeah, we’re capitalizing it. Speaking of which: got Royal Wedding fever? Check out this gold iPhone X to commemorate...
If you’re a Twitter user, you must update your password STAT. That’s 330 million of you.
As Twitter has just informed all 330,000,000 of its users in an apologetic but so far underreported post, you should really change your Twitter password right now, this very second. Not to be alarmist — but out of an abundance of precaution. Evidently, a bug...
Twitter tricks: The smart accessibility features you never knew about.
Thanks to Twitter user Red Long, who describes himself as blind in his bio, I found a terrific tip to use a feature in your Twitter accessibility features to help your visually impaired readers. However in digging deeper, turns out there are a whole bunch of really...
New study about kids’ online behavior might surprise you, parents. And not in a good way.
A recent survey of more than 1600 U.K. kids revealed some fascinating results when it comes to kids’ online behavior, leading the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to make some pretty strong recommendations for parents....
Got internet trolls? Troll Cakes kill them with sweetness.
I can’t stop laughing at this concept: It’s called Troll Cakes and yes, it’s real. The premise is that you send Brooklyn baker Kat Thek any hateful message you’ve received — Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat — and they will...
4 tips for creating a social media policy for your babysitter, nanny, or childcare provider
Whether your kids are with a full-time nanny or you just use a babysitter (or grandparent) for an occasional date night, creating a social media policy is an important consideration. It could be a formal written contract, or just a short discussion, but either way,...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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