If you've ever had a child who got really attached to a particular toy or piece of clothing, then you'll sympathize with this mom. Deborah Skouson was in a bind.
When I signed in to Facebook this morning, the first thing I saw wasn't the latest celebrity gossip or grumpy cat meme - it was this Amber Alert for a missing five year-old girl:
Think twice before uploading that sweet photo of your munchkin on Facebook or Twitter. Especially if you live in France. The country's strict privacy laws could see parents fined $65,000 and jailed if convicted of publishing personal details about their children without consent.
And parents with grown children can't afford to rest easy. Children who sue retrospectively may receive compensation for breach of privacy.
Facebook went on the rampage again. Did Miley flash her boobs for the zillionth time? Did a locker-room shot accidentally make it onto a public page? Nope. A stock image of a mammogram saw an entire team of editors banned from the site.
It's the moment you've been waiting for... No, George Clooney is not single again. Neither is Ryan Gosling for that matter. Facebook has finally heeded your prayers with the creation of a new button.
But hold your horses, Mark Zuckerberg. Before you get ahead of yourself, it's not so simple as creating a yin to the "like" yang.
How far would you go to keep your child safe online? Three sets of New Jersey parents worked with Coby Persin as part of a social experiment to see whether their teen daughters would meet a stranger they'd only interacted with online.
If you're still LOLing away on social media, it's time to get with the times. "Laugh Out Louders" are a dying breed it seems, with only 1.9 per cent of (mostly older) people still using the acronym on social media.
Rest assured, there is life after death—on Facebook, at least. The social media site has now rolled out its legacy settings in Canada, so that your profile page can live on even when you die.
Imagine you're at the screening of Cinderella with your tween, and you know it's one of the last times you'll do this for a while since your husband was just laid off, then a couple of teen sisters ruin the show by giggling and kicking your seat throughout. You politely ask them to stop, and even confront them afterward, and they ignore you. So far, so commonplace.