Month: April 2014

“Facebook is dead.” –  one of my middle school youth about a month ago In the last year I’ve witnessed a mass exodus of middle school and high school kids from the now 10-year-old dinosaur of social media that is Facebook, and her statement seemed to give a pretty blunt synopsis of the current view of Facebook by my youth. It seems the numbers across the United States are reflecting the same trend, and Rochester, Minn., isn’t anomalous. The group istrategylabs completed a statistical report on Facebook users both in 2011 and January of 2014 and found among U.S....

“Don’t talk to strangers!” I have known this helpful piece of safety advice so long I don’t really remember even learning it. It’s just something I’ve always known. This is something we ingrain in our children as we help them be safe, although they learn it now as “Stranger, Danger!” We educate children to know the difference between a stranger we can trust, like a police officer, and those we shouldn’t trust. We instruct them on how to be polite with other adults when they ask us questions, without giving away important information like where you live or go...