No More Fakebook, Now in Pictures
Monday’s post from Sarah Tuttle-Singer, “We Need to Quit Telling Lies on Facebook,” has officially gone viral. With 76,000 Facebook likes (ironic?) and 5o0 comments and counting, it’s been a thrill to...
View ArticleI’m the One Who’s Ruined Facebook with All These Pictures of My Kid
It took me a long time to admit it, but I’m the person everyone has been talking about. I’m the person who uses Facebook as a world-wide picture sharing site, a 21st century baby brag book. It’s me;...
View ArticleJennifer’s 1993 Bat Mitzvah T-Shirt: Mystery Solved
Yesterday we helped NPR’s Planet Money on its search to find a cartoon-themed bat mitzvah t-shirt that turned up in a bin of donated clothes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Once he saw our post about it, Adam...
View ArticleTell Your Friends #WhatILikeAboutYou
“Let’s start 2014 with happiness. If you ‘like’ this, I’ll write something that I find beautiful about you!” I saw a status message in this vein on a friend’s Facebook page. I clicked “like”–more to...
View ArticleDon’t Yuck Someone Else’s Yum Goes for Adults, Too
“Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.” That’s what they say in my daughter’s 1st grade class when it comes to wrinkling your nose and making gagging sounds about what your friends brought for lunch. And...
View ArticleTalking with Randi Zuckerberg About Parenting, Technology & Kids Who Use iPads
We recently had the total pleasure of Skyping with mom of one, Randi Zuckerberg. If the last name looks familiar, yes–she’s the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the former Director of...
View ArticleWhat Fakebooking Looked Like in the 1950s
In the old video we just had restored to DVD, my grandmother wears bright red lipstick and a sparkly blue sweater as she undresses my mother for her bath. Her hair is perfectly coiffed. She smiles and...
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How Do You Tell “That Parent” that She is Being “That Parent”?
Somewhere between watching the twentieth video clip of my friend’s son doing his signature jig to Gangam Style and listening to an epic recap of his latest trick, I realized I had just about had it....
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Facebook “Likes” Are Great, But How Can We Help Children like Colin Make...
I have been watching the Happy Birthday Colin movement on Facebook for the past couple of weeks. I have been both fascinated and touched by the outpouring of compassion and generosity that seemingly...
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Why I Will No Longer Post Photos of My Kids on Facebook
“Take it down,” my 12-year-old told me emphatically when I entered the TV room where my family gathered to watch an NCAA men’s basketball tournament game last week. Prior to the game, I had taken an...
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