Social Media

It is always a crap shoot when you log onto your social media pages and see what the world around you is up to. Often times it's rainbows and unicorns and other times it's encrypted messages and pictures of their food. Here are the top five status updates for Wednesday.

Burglarizing a home probably isn't the smartest idea, but then to sign into social media while you do it?  Definitely not the smartest idea.

How would you respond if you got a ticket from the police over something you posted on social media?

What is a millennial? They're our friends and coworkers and in the cars next to us, they dominate social media. Oxford Dictionary defines a millennial as "those people reaching young adulthood around the year 2000."  There are some funny jokes and thoughts about the millennial generation floating around, but I suppose that always happens with the next generation...

I just saw the video below on CNN about parent's punishing their kids via social media. I think it is a brilliant idea! So long as what mom or dad does as punishment is a fitting response to what the child did. I could easily see some parents going way overboard and creating much worse problems for their child by trying to teach them a public lesson.

What will we look back and say about the good ole days of social media 60 years from now? These hipsters reminisce about social media in 2062.

This is a great guide to the reason to use so many different social media sites.  Everyone seems to "get" Facebook and YouTube by now, but the rest of these may still not be on your radar. I've recently become aware of Pinterest, which has taken off like wild fire with a heavy female participation...

Like many of you, after receiving warnings from Facebook for weeks, I spent some time this weekend setting-up my new Facebook Timeline and my feature photo. As you've heard, Timeline is the new feature going live on Tuesday which replaces your Facebook profile. It's essentially a pipeline of life events in the form of photos, status updates and wall posts.  I had heard rumblings by privacy experts

Facebook, Twitter and all the other social media sites have changed the way young people interact with each other, but according to a survey from Poll Position, the majority of Americans don’t think this has been a change for the better.