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5 Ways You Know It's Time to Stop Posting Photos of Your Kids Online

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 11 at 12:29 PM in Technology

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As parents, it's instinctive to want to show off photos of our amazingly talented, unbelievably beautiful children. Just log on to Facebook or Instagram -- you're bound to be bombarded with images of kids doing all sorts of cute things from loving moms and dads.

But when is it time to stop, or at least scale back a bit? I, personally, don't have a Facebook account, but if I did, I would probably post less and less the older my daughter got.

Everyone is different, and clearly there are no set of rules, but here are 5 things that may be indicators that it's time to stop posting photos of your kids online.
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Mom Overhears Man Bragging About Cheating & Secretly Posts His Pic on Facebook (PHOTO)

posted by Linda Sharps June 10 at 3:21 PM in Technology

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If you were sitting near a group of men bragging about how they were cheating on their wives, what would you do about it? Ignore the conversation? Get up and move? Turn around and tell them what a bunch of pigs they are? Or would you surreptitiously snap a photo of one of the men and post the image on Facebook, along with a request to share and ultimately shame him for his alleged actions?

The latter scenario is exactly what happened last week when a Pennsylvania mom posted a now-viral "Is this your husband?" photo of a man on a train. She asked people to repost the damning status, and she certainly got her wish: it's been shared more than 183,000 times. The question is, did she do the right thing?

In my opinion, the answer is a resounding OH HELL NO.
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35 Common Passwords You Should Never Use to Log In

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 10 at 12:32 PM in Technology

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Seems like we need to have a password for anything and everything these days, doesn't it? Email, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, our iPhones. It's great because we feel protected and secure with passwords, but man, it's a lot of stuff to remember -- which is why so many people use the same password, or a variation of, for pretty much everything. Bad idea. But you know what the worst idea of all is when it comes to creating passwords? Using one of these 35.

Here are 35 of the most common passwords (common as in "easy to figure out"). Is yours on the list?
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Woman Discovers Online Boyfriend Is Actually Her Stalker Ex-Husband

posted by Kiri Blakeley June 7 at 3:30 PM in Technology

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No matter how many times people are warned about conversing with strangers online, people do it. People have a driving need for human interaction, and as our lives become more and more isolated -- working from home, living far away from family, conversing with friends only through social media -- that intense need for human interaction can loosen your grip on common sense. How else to explain that when a woman met a charming man on a dating site, she struck up an intense online-only relationship with him that included delving into all of the details of her horrible relationship with her ex-husband? The woman was in for a shock when it turned out that the man she'd been confiding in for a year was -- none other than her ex-husband.
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Liam Hemsworth Joins Twitter & Follows Miley Cyrus, So Clearly He's Obsessed

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 7 at 10:05 AM in Technology

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Oh. Em. Frickin' Gee. Liam Hemsworth joined Twitter recently and totally started following Miley Cyrus right away. He's, like, sooo not over her, obviously. He's going to be retweeting and hashtagging everything Miley writes. They may as well just get married and have 1,000 babies already.

Or Liam just joined Twitter and decided to follow the woman he was in a relationship for a while? Either or.
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Apple Now Replacing Cracked iPhone Screens -- But, Wait, Cracked Screens Are 'Cool'

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 6 at 12:26 PM in Technology

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Good news for Apple fanbois (and gurls). The company will now replace your cracked iPhone screen for the low, low price of $150. Before, if you dropped your iPhone and the screen shattered, you had to go to a specialty shop to get it fixed (or buy a new phone altogether). But now, Apple's doing us a solid, and-- wait, $150 isn't a steal. Why are people rejoicing? A hundred and fifty dollars is a lot of money!
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5 Super Adorable, Vintage-Inspired iPhone Cases

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 5 at 6:47 AM in Technology

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What, with our texting and our emoticons and our Instagramming, it's hard to believe there was ever a time when we actually used things like rotary phones and cassette tapes (not ironically). It's a digital, digital world, friends. But that doesn't mean we can't hearken back to a time when things were simpler and Facebook wasn't a glint in Mark Zuckerberg's eye. Check out these super adorable, vintage-inspired iPhone cases. Even if you weren't alive when boomboxes were all the rage, you're sure to like them.
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Man Tries to Sell Spot in Heaven on eBay & Bidding Reaches Outrageous Heights

posted by Nicole Fabian-Weber June 4 at 11:19 AM in Technology

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Ari Mandel, a 31-year-old self-proclaimed "theological atheist," recently tried to sell his spot in heaven on eBay. Crazy, I know. And based on the fact that Mandel's an atheist, the whole thing doesn't really add up. (It was a joke, people. Or a social experiment.)

But the most disconcerting thing of all about Ari's attempt to auction off his place in the afterworld is the fact that bidding almost reached $100,000.
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Our Passwords May Soon Be Replaced With Tattoos & Pills -- but Wouldn’t That Be Worse?

posted by Kiri Blakeley June 3 at 5:33 PM in Technology

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Passwords. They are the bane of my existence! It'd be easy to have your password for your email accounts, your phone account, your bank account, your online shopping site accounts, social media accounts, etc., etc., ALL be the same password, but that's not only a real security risk, it's actually kind of impossible now since so many places are beginning to demand that your password contain two numbers and one symbol or one capital letter or whatever, and then you'd have to go back and change all of the others to make the PWs uniform, and that takes time, so you don't, and the next thing you know, you've got 20 different passwords! But a recent tech conference unveiled a few different ideas that companies are working on to keep track of your passwords that doesn't require writing them down, nor your memory. And some of them are pretty weird.
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World War II Veteran's Lost Love Letter Returned to Family With the Help of an Internet Miracle

posted by Linda Sharps June 3 at 5:02 PM in Technology

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In 1944, a World War II lieutenant wrote a love letter to his wife at their Greenwich Village apartment. Nearly 70 years later, the letter arrived in 27-year-old Abbi Jacobson’s mailbox. It was Jacobson’s apartment listed on the yellowed envelope, but she didn't recognize the Mr. and Mrs. Joseph O. Matthews listed as the intended recipients.

The letter had been opened, and when Jacobson took a look at its contents, she knew she had to find its rightful owners. Unbelievably, she found the Matthews family just 36 hours later, thanks to her innovative -- and amazingly widespread -- Internet campaign.
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