Hands up if you use the same password across multiple websites and for multiple services? Hands up if you have ever clicked on an email from someone that you do not know as you thought it was intriguing or you were mislead into believing that you knew the sender? Identify theft on the internet is n...
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2 years ago the Telegraph published some findings by the charity Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG) which found that the average UK child gets their first mobile phone at age 8 and also that 75% of 7 – 15 year olds own at least one mobile phone. Over the past few years my personal use of mobil...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a meeting last week that he wishes to reduce the minimum age limit for users on Facebook from 13 years to 10 years of age. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) currently legislates that websites which collect information about users (like Fa...
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Mobile and internet technology has developed so quickly over the past few years that it has altered how we communicate and the frequency with which we communicate to others. In most cases this is reassuring and helpful. We can keep in touch with our friends and family whenever we like and wherever ...
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As a single website Facebook has had an incredible impact on how people use the internet. It is a site that has fitted very well with the social nature of people and really helped them to connect and communicate much more effectively than ever before. I can now keep up with large numbers of friends...
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The internet is a fantastic resource that supports us in finding information on pretty much anything that you can imagine. The easiest and quickest way to find information on the internet is of course through the use of a search engine such as Google, Bing, Yahoo or Youtube. All of these search eng...
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The title of this post is a rhetorical question really; as humans we will not always achieve what we set out to achieve however hard we try. I have a young son who has just started primary school, he is getting to the stage where he understands how search engines works and can now search for, find ...
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ALL PARENTS WANT TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN from the dangers of the internet. If you are worried about how to keep them safe when online, then a new product CYBERminder™ will be of great interest. Now being launched at the Jersey Evening Post Home Life Show 2010, and available in the UK, this simple...
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A recent study from researchers in Israel shows that poor sleep patterns are related to the over use of electronic media and daytime sleep-related problems. Researches surveyed 470 Israeli 8th and 9th graders. On average, these teens spent three hours per day viewing television and 2.5 hours each d...
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New research by the Cyber-bullying Research Center at Florida Atlantic University suggests that female teenagers are noticeably more likely to engage in cyberbullying than their male counterparts. Of the 2,000 middle schoolers surveyed, teen girls were also more likely to report cyberbullying to pa...
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