Summer Love

Summertime is ripe for romance—but can a fleeting fling last? According to Facebook, users change their status to “single” during the summer. The summer lends itself to lots of activities and more opportunities to meet people. Weekends can be filled with barbeques, cocktail parties and weddings. People’s enthusiasm to get out and do things in […]

Stolen Identity

Unfortunately, identity theft happens every day. Here are some things you can and should be to help prevent your identity from being stolen: 1. It is very important that you check your credit reports on an annual basis. If an ID thief opens credit card and/or bank accounts or takes loans, it will show up […]

Rate Your Date

How many times have you wished you could rate the date you just had? Now you can! There is a new, free, female-friendly social networking app that lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends. Lulu is an iTunes app for women to rate and score their dates. On Lulu women can rate […]

Your Social Image

If you are a savvy person,  you know to be careful what you post to Facebook and Twitter. You never want to post something that will come back to haunt you—even years later.  If you want to get an idea of the online identity that you’ve created to these and other social networks, you should […]

Digital Estate Planning

It’s hard enough to write a Will, deciding who should get what when you die, but you need to provide for your virtual possessions also. Digital assets  have value—sometimes sentimental, sometimes commercial—just like a piece of jewelry. There can be legal issues for your relatives when you die unless you do your digital estate planning […]

Online Dating Strategies

Here are some strategies for online dating: Texting:  Take your sweet time texting back—a lot of time! Ladies should wait at least four hours to answer a man’s text—and even up to 24 hours. It shouldn’t seem like you look at your phone all the time—or give the impression that you do! Don’t send flirty […]

Smartphone Addiction

“We have become slaves to our smartphones, distracted by every little ping while we fail to live in the now. It’s changing our brains, ruining our lives and turning us into an iZombie.”  —Kyle Smith If you can’t get any work done because you can’t stop checking your Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,  texts, emails—or you can’t […]

iPhone Dating App

Tinder is a dating app for the iPhone that has become very popular since its launch.  It is an unusual dating app because it  appeals to everyone—men and women, homosexuals and heterosexuals. It was introduced first on college campuses in California in September 2012 and expanded to other college campuses from there. It taps into […]