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It’s Halloween 365 Days A Year in Your Digital World: Why We All Need to Cultivate a Digital Persona
It’s a pretty well-known reality, if you show up at someone’s doorstep on Halloween, with no attempt at wearing a costume or something that revels in the spirit of the night, the homeowner is under no obligation to give you candy. The social contract of the evening is wear a [...]
Parent’s, ever hear of the Stan army? Read this, then talk to your kids!
Be careful out there, social media armies are ready to attack YOU if you dare to challenge their point of view. No, I’m not talking about the presidential or midterm elections. I’m talking about pop culture fans, known on the internet as ‘Stans’, who are informed and committed to their [...]
What To Do With Social Media Accounts After Death
Whether you are faced with the task of doing ‘something’ about a loved one’s social media accounts after his or her death, or you are planning for what you would like to happen with your own accounts after your death, the pervasive use of social media to meticulously catalog our [...]
New Year… New Technology Pledge For Safety
Even if your kids are older and have been immersed into screens, virtual worlds and all that technology has to offer for years, it’s not too late to have the “tech talk.” “Sexting has been found among children as young as 9 and 10 years old.” —Parents’ New Fear: Cyber-bullying, [...]
The Top Apps And What You Need To Know
At Savvy Cyber Kids, we encourage parents and grandparents to get involved in their children’s and grandchildren’s digital lives. This means knowing what they are doing on their devices, on the platforms they engage on and who they are ‘playing’ with—their friends, followers and so on. In reality, it’s hard [...]
Social Media Hygiene: Keeping Your Online Persona Clean
Make no mistake, making a good impression as an applicant to college or as a job seeker is not merely based on transcripts, resume, recommendations and how you present yourself in an interview. Like it or not, your ‘social media you,’ the online persona, also sometime referred to as the [...]
Generation Z Lives A Lonely Life Online: Where They Get The Validation They Need And It’s Never Enough
As reported by the Pew Research Center, smartphones are in the hands of nearly every teen in the United States; 95% of teens report they have a smartphone or access to one. Access encourages use and as a result, 45% of teens say they are online on a near-constant basis. [...]
Digital Parent’s Guide to Gaming
If your child is already hooked on video games or you are planning to give video games as a present this holiday season, then you need Savvy Cyber Kids Digital Parent's Guide to Gaming. Sign up for our free resources to get this and all of our other parents guides [...]
The “Ready Player One” Tech Talk
If your child is a gamer, it’s pretty likely that you have heard of Ready Player One, either the bestselling book or the recent Steven Spielberg film. In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Share Passwords (and When You Should)
While security tools will, no doubt, change in the weeks, months and years ahead, passwords will likely remain a part of healthy security hygiene. Password management is a personal grooming habit that you need to be sure to teach your kids. If they don’t learn basic password management skills from [...]
Are You A Bystander in the Digital Age?
Kitty Genovese was 28-years-old when she died by the hands of her attacker in March of 1964 in New York City, on her way home late at night from her job as a bar manager. Decades later, we still remember Kitty—not merely because of the senseless loss of life or [...]
Looking for Parental Control and Security Tools?
From the Savvy Cyber Kids point-of-view we—parents, grandparents, educators and any adult who cares for a young person—have a responsibility to digitally parent and raise cyber aware kids. Their safety, if not their lives, depends on it. There is no one-stop shop set of rules for digitally parenting. Every family [...]