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Grandparents Using Skype to Keep Up with Family

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Grandparents Using Skype to Keep Up with Family

In an interesting illustration of how technology is used to bring families together and keep people who may be geographically separate together in communication, the Kansas City Star published an article about how technology is embraced as a means for family cohesiveness.

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Being Two-Faced (or even more) on the Internet

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Being Two-Faced (or even more) on the Internet

The Virtue of the Walled Garden

This post isn’t about deceit, it’s about creating walled gardens of individuality.

In the social internet, you are encouraged to be you, your name, yourself. But it might benefit us to be more cautious and adopt a feeling of being two-faced. Not to lie to your friends about who you are, but more to make sure to segregate your friends from your acquaintances.

Here’s my concern, see if you don’t share it with me: privacy on the internet is becoming more and more scarce as time moves forward.

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Don’t Give In To The Monkey Brain

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Don’t Give In To The Monkey Brain

It’s easy, when you’re going through a difficult time, to fall into a deep, dark spiral of thinking that ends up feeding on itself with more and more depressing thoughts, fears and anxieties. That nattering chatter that won’t let up and pushes itself unbidden on your thoughts is something that I like to call the monkey brain.

It’s a plague and a problem, when you have to deal with not only the real troubles that you are going through, but also this unwanted chattering monkey in your head.

But I have found something that helps, and if it helps me, I like to think that it could help you too.

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