by Lynette Owens | Aug 21, 2019 | For Parents
Social media sits at the beating heart of 21st century family life. Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are all household names, and families are using one or more of these regularly. These apps are certainly great tools to help us socialize with friends, get...
by Lynette Owens | Aug 16, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette Owens We’ve seen some dramatic changes over the past 11+ years that Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) program has been running. But none stand out more than the development of social media. In just a few short years it has become...
by Lynette Owens | Apr 23, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette Owens Last month, the Washington Post published a surprising op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg. In it, the Facebook boss called for greater regulation of the internet to protect individuals’ online privacy, among other things. Although the goals he sets out are...
by Lynette Owens | Feb 8, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers
by Lynette Owens Video games are valued to be US $179 billion market in 2022 with over 3.24 billion people in the world already playing them. Gaming is a giant in the entertainment industry, allowing many of us to while away hours playing them as a distraction, as a...
by Lynette Owens | Feb 4, 2019 | For Parents, For Teachers
Announcing the 2019 What’s Your Story? video contest By: Lynette Owens If you had one special power to make life online better, what would it be? That’s the challenge posed by this year’s What’s Your Story? (WYS) video competition, and we think it’s a good one....