Did you know that the average life of a fake news site is 250 days? With enough traction, that fake news potentially has enough time to collapse economies and reduce a person’s hard-built reputation to shambles. In 2019, fake news is dominating our social media feeds and even our newspapers and tele
It is a tricky world out there, especially for parents trying to ensure that their children do not fall prey to online abuse and fake news. While it might be futile to try and tame the big bad wolf that is the world wide web, there are a few things you can do to protect your teens from exposing them
Technology has been successfully integrated into everything we do, right from the time we wake up to the minute we fall asleep. No wait… that’s not quite true - technology has also been integrated with sleep! We now have technologically advanced pillows which can cure sleep disorders and white noise
Does the world need another digital parenting book? I thought so, and here’s why…As a digital parent myself, I found it hard to find a book that covered the entire spectrum of digital life. After all, I didn’t want to read solely about problems, I wanted to learn about possibilities. I wanted to hea
If you have tried to download Mobicip on your / your family's iPhone or iPad, you might see a message that it is "not available in your country or region", or that it doesn't appear in the App Store search results. This is because Apple has removed the Mobicip Parental Control App from the iOS App S
The Internet - a hub of all things, good and evil. Fortunately or unfortunately, it has become an indispensable part of our lives, and the lives of our children.It’s tempting to simply skip the conversation and hope that our children will not come across anything ugly online. However, we need to rem
When it comes to socio-economic disparities between developed and developing countries, the gaps seem endless. But when it comes to the proliferation of technology, the gap has become almost negligible. Tech giants have made technology extremely affordable for everyone and seem to have taken an almo
The greatest irony of the century has to be that tech leaders from Silicon Valley restrict their children’s smartphone usage… and most of us don’t! Many CEOs of companies like Apple, Microsoft, Snapchat and others have a very stringent screen time allowance for their children. Some power couples res
If you have teens at home, they are most probably on Snapchat. If we are to ever question them about why they resort to using an increasingly uncountable number of social media applications, they would most likely respond with “They are simple platforms for us to showcase our daily lives on”, when i
YouTube stars have become celebrities to young audience and the content produced by these stars are consumed by our kids and have a powerful hold over them. Recently, a 7-year-old YouTube star named Ryan became a toy tycoon after catching the attention of the world’s largest retailer Walmart earlier
As evidenced by increases in app downloads, app earnings, and smartphone penetration over the last five years, mobile application usage seems to be on the rise. The smartphone has managed to take up even more of our time. However, usage does not distribute evenly across types of mobile apps. Social
For the first time in history, technology has become an integral part of three whole generations. This includes seniors, adult parents and their children. Technology’s reach can be largely owed to its easy adaptability and low cost availability. The good news is that this penetration is a global phe
