technology
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Teaching Your Teenager About Internet Safety
Internet safety is an important topic of conversation, especially for parents of teenagers. Teens might not be aware of all of the dangers that lurk on the World Wide Web, particularly on social media websites which are popular amongst today’s generation of young people. Generally, navigating the internet requires good judgement, as well as technology skills, but that isn’t something that kids are born with. I’ve teamed up with a Sixth Form in Hertfordshire to share some advice to parents regarding internet safety. First of all, it’s worth helping your teen understand that they must think before they post. They need to ask themselves; will this post hurt someone’s feelings?…
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Making the Miles disappear with Lebara
In these days when migration is such a potent news story, it is sometimes very easy to forget that we are talking about people, who are faced with a new life, in a strange land, often leaving all family and friends behind. For those people, having the means of communicating with their loved ones is an important part of being able to successfully find that new life. That is why the work and services now being offered by international telecommunications brand Lebara is so, so important and vital. Lebara started as an international communications company in 2001, but in recent years the services they have offered have become crucial to…
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Internet Safety For Kids and Teens
Looking back, it seemed that when I was a little girl ‘safety’ was a word that was mainly applied to crossing the road, stranger danger and kids being in the kitchen. Computers were just beginning to take off and the internet was unheard of. These days are very different. Children are growing up in an internet age, and using computers, laptops and tablets bring a very specific set of threats and dangers that parents have to be aware of, and in control of. For parents of teens, it is even more difficult, with the media full of stories of online bullying that has, in the most extreme cases, led to…
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Engagement Cam – Capturing That Special Moment Forever
Once upon a time, the only way to share a moment was to try to tell someone about it, to carefully preserve all those special details in your mind in order to share it with loved ones, friends and later generations. But we now live in times when not only do we want to share with our nearest and dearest, but we also love to share the details of our lives on our social media, on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And when those details happen to also be the most incredible moments of our lives, we want to share them even more. Celebrities and every day folk alike share images…
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Help! I need a new camera!
One of the most important tools a blogger can have is a camera. Recording important events, shooting pictures for reviews, and just generally taking a picture of anything and everything that might be useful or interesting at some point, a camera becomes like an added appendage, as important as the left and right arm. Which is why, right now, I’m in the middle of a major crisis. Even without the blogging, I totally love photography, and always have. I take literally hundreds of photographs:- of my family, of my outfits, of my holidays, it is true to say I never travel anywhere without a camera. I have photograph albums everywhere,…
