more about: Internet
Is It Facebook’s Fault if You’re Self-Centered?
Does Facebook turn you into a narcissist? This is the question posed (but not answered) by a recent column in the New York Times. Citing a number of recent students of Facebook users, the [...]
Your Kid Saw Porn Online. Now What?
With more kids browsing the Internet at younger ages, an article today’s New York Times warns: ”Your child is going to look at porn at some point. It’s inevitable.” Now what? That’s the opinion [...]
Oversharing: When Couples Tweet Too Much
Singer Rosanne Cash got in trouble recently for tweeting that her husband was napping. “Don’t’ tell people I’m taking a nap!” he said, really annoyed. That story and others, reported today in the New York [...]
Bad Manners: Using Twitter to Hound People
Director Spike Lee caused a stir this week by gossiping on the Internet. Lee re-tweeted to his 250,000 Twitter followers a Florida address purportedly belonging to a man who last month shot and killed [...]
Can an Interest in Pinterest Get You Sued?
I like to pin pretty pictures on my online bulletin boards as much as the next Pinterest user. And I love it when people “like” my choices or repin them. But not everyone feels [...]
Dad to Daughter’s Laptop: ‘Bang Bang, You’re Dead’
In the eight days since a fed-up North Carolina dad who shot up his teenage daughter’s laptop with a .45-caliber pistol uploaded a YouTube video that documents the incident, more than 25 million viewers—parents [...]
Be Nice on Pinterest: The polite way to ‘pin’
I’ve been obsessed lately with Pinterest, the site where you can “pin” collections of interesting pictures onto an online bulletin board you share with your friends. Yeah, me and nearly 11 million other Pinterest [...]
How to Explain Why Mommy and Daddy Don’t Live Together Anymore: Blog It
I think the phrase we’re supposed to use to describe what happens when a blogger publicly reveals the most intimate details of her personal life is: “full disclosure.” But how do you describe the [...]
Anybody Up for #BeNiceDecade?
Thank you, everybody, for weighing in during Real Simple’s Be Nice on the Internet Week with so many excellent suggestions about how to improve civility online. It’s hard to pick favorites from among your [...]
Can u Read ths txt? do u want 2?
I got a strange text from my friend Rahel the other morning, just as Real Simple’s Be Nice on the Internet Week was getting underway. She wrote: “What or rather WHO is Scruttie?” The [...]
