5 Ways Teenagers are the New ‘Mobile-First’ Generation
It’s always a useful task to put some perspective onto the rate of technological change over the last decade or two. I have talked about Generation Y and the millenials in an earlier post, with the video of the toddler using an iPad with ease, but being dumbfounded by a magazine, illustrating perfectly how the children […]
Teens turn to technology for dating abuse
Comment: You may think that the Americans are over reacting here. I tend to think these problems are very real and teenagers just do not discuss them with parents or teachers for fear of embarrassment. MXit is very good platform to start offering peer counselling. And hopefully in the near future between ourselves, CSIR and […]
Parents Guide to MXit available today
The Parents Guide to MXit is now available from today. This concise guide is made available at no cost to all concerned parents or educators, who may have sleepless nights about children using MXit, the popular chat application that enables communication on cell phones at the fraction of SMS costs. Ramon Thomas, online behaviour expert […]
Online replaces telly and print for teens
This is not exactly news for me because I’ve been following these trends internationally from the annual reports published by the Centre for the Digital Future. Here’s the South African perspective. A recent survey by www.Sweet16.co.za found that more South Africans teenagers are spending time online than watching television or reading magazines and newspapers. This […]