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Virtual Friendships: Helping or Hindering our Youth?

These days everyone is on his or her cell phone or computer texting friends or updating their social media sites. Children are getting cell phones at a younger age and are substituting face-to-face conversation or phone calls with text messages. …

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There’s an App for that!

Most people today have some sort of Smartphone that comes with an app store filled with thousands of apps for anything you can think of. There are fitness and diet trackers, games, news articles, recipe books, photo collage makers, music …

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The Right to Search without Snooping

Everybody uses the Internet to a certain extent. I know that I have numerous social media sites and constantly do web searches for everything. Up until recently however, I did not realize how much information we can give away about …

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Glad to be an American

I’ve always appreciated the freedoms we have as Americans especially the freedom of speech, religion, press, etc. However, because I have grown up only knowing these freedoms, I admit sometimes I can be oblivious to the struggles of other’s around …

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Is too much information crowding our brains?

Have you ever researched something so diligently that instead of making a confident decision, you find yourself second-guessing your choice even more? Often times I find myself sitting down at the computer to look at a review for a restaurant …

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