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Keeping Generation Z Safe Online

If you were to install a pool in your backyard you would of course install a fence around the pool, especially if you had young children.  While the fence is a necessary safety requirement of owning a pool it is not the best way to protect your child from drowning.  They won’t only encounter swimming [...]

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Teenage Mistakes in a Digital World: Is There Redemption?

Take a second to think back to your own teenage years. I know it’s not always pleasant, so allow me to make it slightly more uncomfortable. Think back not just to your teenage years, but try to recall the most embarrassing moments, the silliest decisions, the reputation damaging mistakes, the painful errors of judgment or [...]

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Are Teenagers Leaving Facebook?

Is this the beginning of the next big switch or just one of many ebbs and flows to come? In the last couple of months the internet has been awash with reports of Facebook fatigue.  Despite reaching more than the 500 million user mark recently there does appear to be growing levels of dissatisfaction with [...]

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Bieber Beats Gaga: Pop Culture & The Rise of Social Media

Stop the presses! Amazing news! Justin Bieber has done it! Done what you may ask? The 16 year old Canadian sensation racked up more than 246 million views of his music video Baby on Friday, eclipsing Lady Gaga‘s Bad Romance which had a mere 245.6 million views. Maybe this doesn’t leave you in a state [...]

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Teenagers & Mobile Phone Disorders!

Have you ever thought your teen’s mobile phone has become somehow anatomically attached to their body? Do you ever worry that the amount which they text might be dangerous?  Well your fears may be well founded. Apparently mobile phones put teens at risk of developing all sorts of disorders. A study into youth communication habits [...]

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Generation Z: Multitasking Teens

A recent survey of Australian teenagers has found that the current and future generations will have multi-tasking hardwired into how they operate.  It also appears that although teens use technology more, the average population is not that far behind.  Reason to consider carefully just what is the nature of technology fueled generation gap. The survey [...]

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Lady Gaga & Madonna: Generational Distinctives

Found this video today about a topic that has been rummaging around in my head for a while – Is Lady Gaga this generation’s Madonna? Does the answer tell us anything about teenagers today? Similarities The above video gives a great example of just how similar Lady Gag is to Madonna. I am sure most [...]

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Teenagers & Technology: 4 Myths About Digital Natives

In an earlier post I briefly outlined the term Digital Native and how it has been used to describe the the relationship between today’s teenagers and the technology they have grown up with. For those who can’t be bothered looking up that post the basic thesis is; current day young people, who can’t remember the [...]

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