Food and Social Media: Reaping the Benefits!
It was a gloomy Saturday morning as I entered the Dentist’s clinic and headed to the waiting room to wait for my turn to go through torturous pain (read: root canal). As I settled into the stainless steel chair, I looked around to check my fellow victims, a twenty-something female sat with her head bowed […]
Students seek cyber-bullying input
Young prefer to learn about online care from peers not authority, conference told Young people should be consulted on Government policies affecting cyber-bullying, a secondary school student conference was told today. Some 150 young people from over a dozen Dublin schools attended the ‘Empowering our Generation’ conference organised by Drimnagh Castle secondary school student council. […]
Conflict Resolution in Nine Easy Steps
Define the conflict If defined objectively, rather than subjectively, which is how most of us do it, conflict means only this: We need a new way of doing things, the old way has failed. If two sides can define what they are fighting about, the chances increase that misperceptions will he clarified. It is not […]
Woman arrested after trying to sell her kids on Facebook
Covered in detail by Oklahoma’s News 9 station, a 22-year-old woman named Misty Van Horn was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to sell both of her children on the Internet. Using Facebook messaging as her communication medium, VanHorn first attempted to sell her two-year-old child for a price tag of $1,000. However, she upped the price to $4,000 […]
How Twitter and Social Media Impacts Mexico’s Drug War
Austin, Texas — Twitter, but increasingly Facebook and YouTube, are becoming essential elements to the way ordinary people in Mexico protect themselves from the war on drugs, according to experts sitting on a panel at South By Southwest Interactive called, “Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War.” Panelists included University of Texas at Brownsville […]