Some of the best memories from our spring break trip: the pure joy on my kids’ faces as they discovered the “tornado” wind tunnel at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, their concentration as they learned how to draw Pigeon, Elephant &...
Social media has become a big part of our lives, whether or not we are willing to admit it. We spend a majority of our sacred personal time looking at screens, which, yes – it can be enriching. But, as psychologist Adam Alter outlines in this TED Talk, we spend three...
Even if you don’t know the details, it is likely that you’ve heard of the company called Cambridge Analytica, know that they are in trouble, and it has something to do with Facebook. Cambridge Analytica is a political consulting firm with offices in...
Springtime is filled with memory-making activities: Easter egg hunts, Mother’s Day brunches, graduations, Father’s Day BBQs, opening day on the Little League field…the list goes on. Most of us will be there with smart phones in hand, snapping away to...
If you’ve been keeping up with our blog lately, then you already know about Facebook trying to foster more meaningful interactions on their platform due to a misinformation scandal that put the social media giant under a microscope. In the latest news, Facebook’s...
If you’re on Facebook, then you certainly are. Back in 2014, a shady Russian company called the Internet Research Agency (IRA) tasked its roughly 80 employees with creating chaos in the discourse of the 2016 Presidential election. The IRA began accumulating large...