Best Tips For the Labyrinth That Is Instagram
Instagram is like a Labyrinth, with twists and turns and distractions. You’ll need a friend to stay focus. GeekMom is here … if you need us.
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This Is Some of Us
GeekMom Melody on shariing loss, struggle joy and reality as art imitates life on television.
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Scientist Selfies: The Social Media Experiment
Can social media help change the public image of scientists? We found a group on Instagram with the perfect social media experiment: Scientist Selfies!
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Reactions to Facebook’s New ‘Reactions’
What do you think about Facebook’s new “reactions”?
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GeekMom Is On Instagram!
Follow us @GeekMomBlog.
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DIY Black Widow Fix for My Daughter: #WeWantWidow Too
Melody and her geekling daughter create a DIY fix for Widow-less merchandise. Using problem-solving skills and a voice, the two join the #WeWantWidow movement.
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Hey Pinterest Users: Stop Saying This, Please!
Pinterest is an amazing community—but it would be more awesome if we stopped saying this one thing.
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How to Keep Social Media from Eating Your Life
Here are a few ways to keep them from eating your life (some of which you may already be familiar with, but they’re worth revisiting) — allowing you to enjoy social media sites when you’re ready, but don’t feel the need to come running every time they call.
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Sample Excerpt: It’s Complicated, The Social Lives of Networked Teens
danah boyd’s nuanced treatise on teens use of social media was 8 years and 160 interviews in the making–and something every parent should read.
Continue ReadingIs Facebook My Happy Place?
Every social media user has the choice to post what he/she chooses. Anything can be conveyed. Anything! Apparently I only post the happier stuff. Why worry people, right? Does that make me a fraud?
Continue ReadingFirst Look and Giveaway–Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives by Randi Zuckerberg
A look at Randi Zuckerberg’s new book, Dot Complicated.
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IBM and Hult Business School Design First Joint Digital Services Curriculum
IBM attempts to mesh education and technology for students.
Continue ReadingWolfram Alpha Rolls Out Facebook Reports
Wolfram Alpha, the “computational engine” (as opposed to search engine), has rolled out a system that lets you see visualizations of your Facebook data with added information about your network.
Continue ReadingFacebook’s New Privacy Settings Actually Make It Easier
Facebook is rolling out new ways to access your privacy settings along with a new feature called Graph Search. The changes could fundamentally alter how you use Facebook and what it means to you.
Continue Reading10 Things We’re So Over on Pinterest
From hairdos and hairdon’ts to unexpected abs, here’s our top 10 list of things we’re so over on Pinterest.
Continue ReadingWas Your LinkedIn Password Leaked?
LinkedIn has experienced a significant data breach with a loss of as many as 6.5 million hashed (encrypted) passwords, 300,000 of which have been decrypted and posed online. Was yours among them?
Continue ReadingWhy Do Geek Moms Like Pinterest?
We love our social media here at GeekMom, Twitter to G+, Facebook to Erly. Lately we’ve been talking about Pinterest, the virtual pinboard that lets you create, organize, and share what you find online. Because it’s a visually-oriented site, it attracts us using something other social media sites haven’t done nearly as well: images. While online we […]
Continue ReadingOnline Friends and Death
If you are like me, you probably have at least a few friends that you only know on the internet. I’ve been on the internet for 15 years now, since my sophomore year in college. I’ve been a member of many forums and made many friends that I only know through the internet. Some of […]
Continue ReadingWhy Curated Content Matters: A Lament for Reader Share
Google Reader unveiled big changes this week, and the internet recoiled. Some folks (I’m one of them) loathe the new design: the excessive use of white space at the top of the screen, the heavy black-and-gray palette, the black-underlined links that have replaced the stand-out blue. But far more irritating to many users is the […]
Continue ReadingIn-Your-Facebook: A Look at the Latest Wave of Big Changes on the Social Network Everyone Loves to Hate
As you’ve no doubt heard, Facebook rolled out some major changes this week–and even bigger changes will be hitting your Wall in the weeks to come. (More on those in a minute.) Many Facebook users were caught off guard by the new “ticker” that now appears in the upper right corner of the News Feed […]
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