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Explainers, Home & Family, Wired Well

DIGITAL PARENTING: FAMILY DEVICE AGREEMENT

You’re giving your child a smartphone, tablet, laptop, gaming device or some other variation of the latest connected, shiny, must-have electronic doodad. 

And why not, you think? All their friends have one. They’ve done all their chores without whining (too much), do just fine in school, and promise to continue being as sweet as can be — if they get that one gadget-y gift that will make their lives complete.

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Explainers, News, Online Safety, What to buy

Tired of political texts? Then STOP doing this one thing making it worse:

Stop! Don’t reply “Stop” or Stop2End to any more infernal political text messages asking you to take a poll, click a link, or donate. That’s supposed to work, but it’s not. Just ask anyone who has tried it lately.
Replying with anything—an expletive tirade, photos of your cats’ litter box, or a straight-out STOP—tips the unethical text vendors that they have a working number. In other words, the good guys see, “Stop bugging the living daylights out of these fine people,” while the bad guys read, “Open the fire hoses and send ALL the texts.”

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