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What Is Cyberbullying?
By: Natalie Newman Cyberbullying: the act of harassing someone online by sending or posting mean messages, usually anonymously. But what does cyberbullying really mean? Cyberbullying is all around us, and it can shapeshift into many different forms. From social media to private emails, cyberbullying is scary, not only because it’s [...]
What Did Viking Kids Use to Entertain Themselves?
By: Natalie Newman In modern times, using technology as the primary form of entertainment is simply unavoidable. With the advancement of cellphones and artificial intelligence, technology has changed the way kids live their everyday lives. It has become the center of attention for kids, even at a very young age. [...]
What Your Employees are Doing That Can Harm Your Company’s Reputation
For many employees, there is often the incorrect assumption that their actions online are entirely private. Many companies monitor their employee’s actions to ensure a positive corporate reputation is maintained, especially online reputation. No employer wants to have to exercise their public relations crisis management procedure in response to unintentional or [...]
Data Privacy and Your Mobile Phone
Summary: The cellular technology that allows our mobile phones to track our location, stream our videos, and locate family and friends nearby, also allows us to be located. So, what’s actually happening with the devices we depend on every day? Your every move can be monetized. The evolution of the [...]
How Are Women Treated Differently Online?
By Shannon Fitzgibbon Sexism: Sexism is ultimately the discrimination or prejudice held against someone due to their sex or gender. More often than not, this deals with women over men, as women have often been deemed “lesser” due to their gender. There are many reasons that sexism would exist in [...]
What can I do to prevent social media addiction?
By Shannon Fitzgibbon Social media, being now readily available to anyone with modern communicative technologies, has inherently made it possible for communication without limitations of distance, language, or even areas of cell phone service. Popular platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook provide billions of people worldwide with connection to [...]
Smart Social Media Security Strategies for Business
If you are looking to make sure that your business social media accounts are secure, you are going to need to start with a detailed social media policy catering to the company and its employees. Because of the increased reliance on social media tools for business marketing and communications, security [...]
Is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act effective?
By Shannon Fitzgibbon What is it? What does it do? According to the Federal Trade Commission, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) works to regulate how online data and information regarding one’s child is gathered and handled. COPPA has therefore given some authority to parents and guardians in regards [...]
How can cyberbullying affect me?
By Shannon Fitzgibbon What is cyberbullying? With technology and social media becoming more accessible than ever in modern society, anyone can be a victim of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying, as defined by PACER National Bullying Prevention Center, is “the use of technology to repeatedly and intentionally harass, hurt, embarrass, humiliate, or intimidate [...]
How to Choose the Best Security Question Answers
When creating a new account (social media, banking, or anything else!), a website will often prompt you to create answers to security questions. The questions are designed to help you recall information that is easy to remember, but also, unfortunately, easy to guess! For the most part, we are taught [...]
How Is Technology Addictive?
By: Natalie Newman Technology usage has become a normal activity in everyone’s daily lives. The more advanced our technology gets, the more people want to buy more. Whether it’s the new iPhone or a new computer, technology has grown to be a necessity in our lives, topping our survival lists [...]
What is online blackmail and what can I do to prevent it from happening?
By Shannon Fitzgibbon Online blackmail is the term that defines the threatening of someone over the internet to leak information to either the public or friends and family unless that individual complies with the demands of the blackmailer. Online blackmail can happen to anyone with access to the internet, including [...]