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Helping Your Child Feel Connected While Social Distancing

Published: April 19, 2020 | Last Updated: April 19, 2020 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading
Helping Your Child Feel Connected While Social Distancing

During these uncertain times, here are some ideas for helping your child feel connected while social distancing.

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Babies, dogs and Facebook friends

Published: August 1, 2013 | Last Updated: April 2, 2016 By | 2 Replies Continue Reading
Babies, dogs and Facebook friends

The etiquette of responding to Facebook friends is murky and can inadvertently causes rifts and misunderstandings, even between good friends.

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Guest Post: Stress and e-mail can be bad for your health!

Published: January 31, 2013 | By | 1 Reply Continue Reading
Guest Post: Stress and e-mail can be bad for your health!

In this first-person essay, my friend, health journalist Sheryl Kraft, laments about her stressful e-mail in-box and suggests that friends can be great stress-busters.

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Guest Post: A frightening and uninvited Facebook introduction

Published: November 6, 2012 | By | 2 Replies Continue Reading
Guest Post: A frightening and uninvited Facebook introduction

Facebook suggested I friend him. I guess our social networks overlapped. I guided the mouse toward his photo, and the little pointed hand hovered over his face. Fear and anger swelled up but curiosity won out and I clicked “Add Friend.” He accepted within minutes.

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Top 3 ways to get unfriended on Facebook

Published: October 15, 2010 | Last Updated: July 8, 2020 By | 7 Replies Continue Reading

A study looks at why people got unfriended on Facebook.

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Thoughts on Being Defriended

Published: September 4, 2010 | Last Updated: March 25, 2023 By | 20 Replies Continue Reading

When I was defriended on Facebook, I felt like a door had been slammed in my face.

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How to Handle A Facebook Frenemy

Published: August 4, 2010 | Last Updated: August 1, 2013 By | 21 Replies Continue Reading

Have you ever had the unsettling experience of having a Facebook frenemy?

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