Tag: FAMILY

Wasting your life away on Facebook may not seem like the most social of activities, but, according to a new study from the University of Texas, all those hours you spend on the social network may actually strengthen your personal ties with friends and family. To test the effects of Facebook on real-world relationships, researchers at the University of Texas questioned 900 college students and ...

Babies born today aren't just born into the age of Facebook, they're born on Facebook. According to a new study conducted by Research Now, 92-percent of all American babies have some form of online presence by the time they reach the age of two. After surveying 2,200 mothers of young children in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and several other developed countries, researchers discovered that ...

Bereaved Web surfers in Hong Kong now have a new way to digitally honor their lost loved ones, thanks to www.memorial.gov.hk, a site that lets users pay tribute to deceased friends and family with their own online memorials. Users can custom design dedicatory profile pages for their honorees, and upload photos, videos, and background music to the shrine. Mourners can also choose whether or not to ...

Share Andy Spiers-Corbett may have spent the rest of his life never knowing his father Graham was no more than half an hour away, if it wasn't for Facebook. Andy's parents split when he was just two years old. Graham maintained partial custody and visited his son, but he felt the stress of being passed back and forth between parents was too much for the young child and made what he described as ...

Googling yourself can be daunting. Some people are morbidly afraid of what they might find, and others fear disappointment with what they don't find. But every now and then, self-googling can return the kind of life-changing results you never thought possible. In a story that is pretty much destined to be made into a movie (albeit a Lifetime one), according to the Huffington Post, a Georgia ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/12/10-rules-for-dealing-with-family-on-facebook/'; It's probably the scariest friend request you'll ever get: Your mom (or dad... or, God forbid, grandparent) has joined Facebook – and they want to connect. Sure, you love them – and you're happy they're embracing the digital age – but do you really want to keep them that informed ...

Folks are finding less time to spend with those closest to them, and are spending more time pecking at a keyboard and stare at a glowing square. In no way should we be the first to cast stones here, but the findings of a new study by the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California bother us just a bit. USA Today reported that, according to the study, ...

Instances of personal photos being poached from the Web and used for nefarious purposes abound. Typically, those stories involve the dissemination of incriminating images, which are then used to implicate or embarrass the owner. Typically, anyway. A Missouri family recently learned that a holiday photo had been plucked from the Web. But, instead of being used for shady purposes, the image was ...

Ever check a text message or take a phone call at the dinner table? Maybe sneak a glance at that e-mail which just set your BlackBerry abuzz? Shame on you, says Dr. Cindy Post Senning in a recent New York Times article. Author of the new "Emily Post's Table Manners for Kids," Dr. Post Senning admonishes any sort of gadget use at the dinner table. She reminds us: "The family meal is a social event, ...

While we do talk a lot about the dangers of Facebook, how it can alienate us from our fellow humans and cause overdoses of information (and the occasional stalker), every now and then a remarkable story about the power of connectivity crosses our desks. Twenty seven years ago, when British mother Avril Grube's ex-husband said he was taking their three-year-old son Gavin for a day trip, he ...

Footnote, a site that specializes in digitizing historical documents, has partnered with the National Archives to provide access to boatloads of World War II-related documents. Footnote has scanned documents, including enlistment records, patrol reports, photos, and missing crew reports, and is providing text based searching of the archives. The National Archives records are often incomplete, ...

The Internet (much like TV before it) has taken a lot of criticism, and one argument often heard is that it would impede socialization amongst family members. But, a new study from Pew Internet & American Life Project counters those expectations. According to a new survey of 2,252 adults, around 25-percent of adults with Internet access said their families were closer now than when they ...

When Intel typically develops and debuts a new microprocessor to the computer buying public, it usually gets fanfare around new high speeds attained -- and, of course, the higher price point. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company may be bucking its own trend the next time around, however, as it finishes development of a new low-priced, smaller-sized chip code named "Diamondville." This new chip, ...