The dude was so stunned to hear that Brown liked baseball (because girl and baseball...) that he challenged her to name some teams in the National League East.
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.
Twitter has long been lax in terms of appropriate online behaviour. CEO Dick Costolo even admitted as much last year. So the social media site finally took heed, and tightened its code-of-conduct belt.
The ongoing hostage-taking in an Australian cafe is terrifying. And out of fear is borne ignorance. A few bad apples do not make the bunch, and it goes without saying that a terrorist is not a spokesperson for an entire faith.
Teenagers aren't that much different than they were in the days of Bueller and the Breakfast Club. Being popular is still paramount, but how some teens go about making that happen has changed dramatically. And as parents, we ought to be concerned; very concerned.
As women, we live in a different time than that of our grandmothers and our mothers, even. Like them we're subjected to sexual harassment and all manner of gender bias. The hands of time haven't changed that grim fact. Yet today we have a secret weapon hitherto unavailable to us. We have—for better or for worse—social media, and it is a powerful tool. From the moment news broke of Jian Ghomeshi's firing from the CBC, the floodgates opened. Conversations erupted online. Accusations and confessions trickled out from behind closed doors and into public forums.
Note to self: if you want to throw a little bash for some friends, don't dare post it on social media. It won't end well as the owners of an upscale Brampton, Ont. home discovered.
According to an article in the Sun, long before the party started, it was trending under the hashtag #MansionParty.
Have you heard the term "rape face"? You might want to ask your tween or teen. It actually has nothing to do with rape, per se, but that didn't make it any less shocking when those words were uttered by the 12-year-old son of this Huffington Post writer.
The latest blogger blazing the scene may be pint-sized but he (we'll call him a he) tells it like it is. With more than 148,000 Twitter followers already under his adjustable elasticated belt, The Honest Toddler is proving he's a force to be reckoned with.