As the Big Blizzard of 2013 bears down on us, everyone is rushing out for provisions. Water ... check. Canned food ... check. Extra blankets ... check. But people are forgetting one very important, critical accessory during this major weather event: the right iPhone app. Yes, the right application can mean the difference between life or death if you are stuck out in the cold or buried under 10 feet of snow. Check out the 5 best apps to help you survive any blizzard.

Because it’s just not easy enough to sow your horny oats in the real world and initiate a sexual relationship by your own devices online, ta da! May the social media gods present Bang With Friends, a Facebook app that takes connecting with someone to a whole other level. With the click of your mouse, you could be logging off of The Book and having some very tangible sex. Provided you get banged back, of course. 

Ever wonder what happens to Facebook after you die? I mean, your Facebook page? Unless you've given someone your account's password and instructions on what to do with it ... it just sits there. All of your party photos staring eerily out at the cyberworld while you are long gone. Hey, it's not like you have to worry about it anymore. But in some cases, it would be nice to deactivate the damn thing. Well, a New Hampshire state senator is introducing a bill that would allow estate executors to get into your Facebook account and decide what to do with it.

It is a high tech world. I love it and I don’t know how we survived before everyone had access to cells phones and the Internet. Honestly, if you tried to take either away from me today, I’d probably fight you to the death and you’d still have to pry my iPhone out of my cold dead hands.

As we advance technologically, it's becoming the norm to see toddler and certainly elementary school aged children on laptops, iPods, iPads, iPhones and the internet, usually playing educational games or watching cartoons so that their parents can keep them occupied. I have no problem with this. Our girls have DS’s and now they have Nabi tablets , MP3 players and we own every educational game system available since the girls were toddlers. They do homework on the laptop and know their way around technology ... like every other kid we know.

Another day, another breach of privacy change on Facebook. On Tuesday, Lord Zuckerberg introduced the latest addition to his up-and-coming social networking site, Facebook: Graph Search. What is Graph Search? Basically, it's Google. Well, it's not really Google, as only Google's Google, but it's basically a search engine -- a very specific search engine -- within the site. 

Soon you'll be able to search things like "TV shows liked by my friends", or "bicycling Los Angeles", or "marketing jobs" within the site. (Graph Search is available in limited release as of yesterday, but don't worry, it's coming to a computer near you soon.)

To some this may seem like a cool feature, as it will simplify the laborious task of poring over every individual friend of yours, and beyond, to see who likes Parks and Recreation as much as you do. But for others, as the story often goes with Facebook, not so much.

Is quitting Facebook the new "I quit television"? Is making a big public stink about how you refuse to take part in social media essentially the same act as making sure everyone knows you eschew mass media, because lord knows you can't toss out your television/delete your Facebook account without announcing it to the world?

According to NYU assistant professor Laura Portwood-Stacer, who recently examined why people leave Facebook, how they communicate their rejection, and how their abstention comes across, quitting Facebook has become "a new, elitist form of 'conspicuous non-consumption,' on par with refusing television."  In other words, it's pretty hard to quit Facebook … without sounding like an asshole.

Do you update your Facebook status often? If so, why? You may not, consciously, know that answer off the top of your head, but according to a new study, the reason may be because it makes you feel less lonely. Yep, even if no one comments or "likes" your status, apparently writing something on Facebook -- specifically, an update -- eliminates feelings of loneliness in users. And while this finding is certainly interesting, I really can't say I'm surprised.

Self-driving cars cannot get here fast enough. Well, at least in my world. Some days I feel like I spend hours in the car -- carting kids around, running errands, making appointments, etc. That’s a lot of time spent sitting and not doing a whole lot of anything except watching the road and singing along badly to Adele until your two small children beg you to stop because their ears hurt.

That’s time that could be spent doing something productive, or even just fun. Heck, if cars could drive themselves, you could theoretically wave goodbye to your kids from your driveway as they head off to school. Although that idea freaks me out, because I love technology, but I love my kids more and sometimes computers glitch.