Posts Tagged ‘safety’

As a parent, do you ever feel like your teen or young adult children are speaking a completely different language when they start talking about Facebook or Twitter?  Have you any idea what they are “blogging” about?  As if text message abbreviations aren’t bad enough, now there’s even more on the internet for your kids to get into.  It’s not as strange and complicated as it may seem, and your children will benefit from the wisdom you can share to guide them along the savvy social media path.  Plus, you’ll gain a few cool parent creds along the way.

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AT&T appears to believe that teenagers’ phone of choice is a BlackBerry (8xxx and 9xxx models). At least that is one possible theory based on the release of an app for BlackBerry phones that automatically sends customizable replies that the recipient is driving and unable to respond.
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Feel like you need an app just to protect yourself from your other apps? Yes, now, in today’s crowded marketplace, there’s an app, even for that. Introducing the “Net Safety Tips On The Go” (Net Safety Tips OTG) app, the first-ever digital safety and security advice app, as brought to you by the Internet Education Foundation (IEF). Now that you know there’s an app for that, what can it do for you?

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Social media is breaking into the realm of safety. We all have ideas about how to make our streets and our homes safer, but only recently does it seem that Twitter might factor into the average police officer’s duty. Officers in the United Kingdom have started using Twitter to communicate to the public…could this be coming to a neighborhood near you? Read more

A group of young boys, aged 10 to 11 years, were shooting a YouTube video in Bellingham, Washington when one of the boys accidentally chocked himself to the point of unconsciousness. According to the county Sheriff, “As part of the skit they were performing they were using fake blood and one of the children tied a rope around his neck and attached himself to a swing, and when he slipped the rope tightened up on his neck.” The boy is recovering, but parents are worried that the YouTube generation may be more prone to hurting themselves trying to make entertaining videos, especially with the rise in popularity of FAIL videos.
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Recently Rotorblog posted about Social Media Tools that Save Lives.

Because cell phones have become equipped to do so much more than simply call or text, we’re exploring some of the various ways cell phone users can maximize the potential of their phones. An often overlooked category is safety because vigilance tends to happen *after* an event, so take a moment and look into these 10 apps and find new ways to use your phone… Read more