Gavin Newsom Sets The Nation Leading Standard to Protect Kids on Social Media and AI
Governor Newsom signs the strongest child safety chatbot and social media laws in the nation The ongoing topic of children and social media has largely focused on what pa...
Meta's Settlement Is A Step In The Right Direction
Meta’s settlement will compel others to bend the knee and set up teen guardrailsThe topic of children and social media has largely focused on what parents should be doing...
Multiple Chinese Router Companies Found to Have Backdoor Security Risks
When most people think about cybersecurity, they think about protecting their phones and computers. We install antivirus software and create complex passwords. We turn on...
YouTube and LinkedIn Fight AI Slop
Before algorithms determined what appeared in our feeds, we could open a website and see what our friends were posting. We customized MySpace pages, shared random thought...
Meta Muse Image Backlash: Who Owns Our Digital Identity?
Millennials remember when putting yourself online was considered a major decision. It was a new way for us to connect and present ourselves to people in ways we never tho...
Studies Explain Why Social Media Safety Features Aren’t Working As Intended
Many social media platforms, such as TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, are often framed as having no concern for child safety. These platforms have been pushed to...
Social Media Ban For Users Under The Age of 16 and Digital IDs for the UK!
For many millennial parents, the internet was open by default. We created usernames on forums, joined chatrooms, customized our MySpace profiles, and played online games ...
Discord is Facing New Lawsuits
Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Landmark Lawsuit Against Discord For many millennial parents, Discord still feels like a gaming tool. It's often described as a v...
Is Roblox Becoming Too Pay-to-Win for Kids? Roblox’s Monetization Systems
Inside the pay-to-play world of Roblox targeting children For many millennial parents, Roblox looks like the modern version of the online games we grew up with. Kids cust...
Your Kids Might Be Gambling Online - The Rise of Online Gambling Among Kids
The Rise of Online Gambling Among Kids: What Millennial Parents Should KnowOver the last decade, video games like Fortnite and Overwatch faced heavy scrutiny for introduc...
Roblox Introduces New Kids Accounts After Ongoing Safety Concerns
Roblox Introduces New Age-Based Accounts and Expanded Parental Controls for Users Under 16 Roblox Is Splitting Childhood Online Roblox is one of the largest online gamin...
AI Slop in Kids' Media
Jo Jo Learning Land YouTube Navigating Modern Parenting Online Do you remember the weird corners of the internet we explored as kids? Flash games, creepy pasta stories, r...
TikTok Get U.S Ownership!
TikTok Gets U.S Ownership TikTok will have U.S ownership soon. ByteDance signed a deal to sell part of its U.S. operations to American investors. They will maintain a min...
Australia Banned Social Media for Kids By Law. History Says Kids Will Find a Way.
Australia Banned Social Media for Kids Australia is the first country to enforce a nationwide social media ban for kids under 16 with the goal of reducing the negative im...
Teens & AI Chatbots
Teens Are Quietly Replacing Real Connection With AI Chatbots For millennial teens, connecting online meant MySpace, MSN, AIM, and countless forums. For socially isolate...
Why the Internet Sucks Now...
(Web Design Museum) Creating the perfect AIM away message. Carefully curating your Top 8 on MySpace. Playing Neopets for hours. The old internet gave us endless little po...
The Evolution of Brain Rot: From Fred Figglehorn to Skibidi Toilet
Brain rot is defined as hyper-stimulating content with fast cuts, vibrant scenes, and a perceived lack of beneficial substance. Parents and educators often point to pheno...
The Importance of Raising Digitally Resilient Kids!
Raising resilient kids has always been a parenting standard, but the playground has changed. Today’s challenges include navigating an online world designed to capture the...
The Most Loved and Hated Family Influencers on the Internet
Kids today are growing up on camera, not necessarily to be documented solely for family home videos, but to be showcased online to strangers, often not by their own choic...
Netflix Exposes the Dark Side of Kidfluencers in Bad Influence
(Bad Influence: The Darkside of Kidfluencing) Many of us dreamed of becoming astronauts, presidents, or royalty. Those dreams fueled our imagination and creativity. Today...
What Happened To The Online Spaces For Kids?
Club Penguin, Neopets, and Toontown Online weren’t just regular video games, they were vibrant digital playgrounds built specifically for kids, with safety, creativity, a...
Sharenting: Oversharing Our Kids Online
There was a time when uploading content online felt like a unique surreal experience. Grainy webcam selfies, overly filtered Instagram pics, or Tumblr reblogs that someho...
What Adolescence Reveals About Digital Parenting
(Netflix: Adolescence) Millennials, we were the first generation to navigate the uncharted waters of social networking, from the raw authenticity of MySpace customization...
Teaching Kids Digital Security in the Age of Smart Devices
Infecting the family computer with a virus was a rite of passage for young millennials downloading "free" music through peer-to-peer platforms like Limewire. Most of us n...
Does Screen Time Hurt Kids’ Academic Discipline?
The Infamous "iPad Kids" When iPads first launched, they revolutionized tablet computing, making it accessible to the mainstream through innovative technology and a use...
TikTok Helps Teens Build Balanced Digital Habits
New TikTok Features for Digital Parenting TikTok is one of the most popular apps for short-form content among young audiences. Its rise is reminiscent of YouTube’s early ...
Parasocial Relationships: The Internet Bonds Our Kids Are Forming
The Birth Of Influencers The rise of MySpace, YouTube, and underground forums opened the doors to opportunities to connect with people in a way never done before. Back th...
Raising a Generation With AI Technology!
AI From Fiction To Reality! For millennials, AI has always been a concept straight out of sci-fi films. We grew up watching Terminator 2, The Matrix, Smart House, and Fut...
The Evolution of Classroom Technology
Classroom Tech: From Overhead Projectors to iPads We all knew it would be a good day if the teacher rolled in the big TV cart. If we were lucky, the VHS was Bill Nye Th...
TikTok Influencers Face Backlash for Admitting Fake Content
(Charli D'Amelio, Meredith Duxbury, Babydumplingg) Genuine Content Is Hard To Come By Millennials are all too familiar with influencers: how they were when we were young...