This is a post I wrote on my own blog a few months back. I thought it would fit nicely here with the dadomatic community. If you have children and you let them play on social media websites, or are wondering what to do because your child is asking for ...

If you asked me about the key figures of 2011, Justin Bieber and Charlie Sheen would be the last names to come out of my mouth. And yet, according to the 75% of us who use social media, these two … Continue reading →

Dear Mr. Dad: We’ve always taught our kids to say “please,” “thank you,” “excuse me,” and the other basics. But where are the rules about texting and using cell phones and all those other things that didn’t even exist when our parents w...

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 ...

Social networking is the norm. Facebook now boasts 800 million active users, half of which check the site every day. Twitter generates over 300 million tweets each day. Even MySpace, though in decline, is still kicking as the 136th biggest website in the world. While all of this global connection ...

It can be tough for a kid to experience community on the Internet. All but 5% of teens are online, and most are using social media platforms. However, for all the success experienced by websites like Facebook, these are not places that welcome teens and tweens, either through policy or ...

We try to derive happiness out of the simple things when it comes to our little blog since we’re, you know, not exactly MAKING ANY MONEY BLOGGING. I mean we have a good time over on the ole Twitter ...

Sometimes you just don't know how to do something, or you want to know a bit of everything on a topic. In the past I have always been one to go to the library or the internet to look up information and many times I would find books like the ...

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 ...

I don't know who originally spoke these words to the blogging world, but I wonder if they know exactly how deep rooted that statement really is. People seem to take it's meaning to different depths if you ask their opinion on the statement. Some blogge...