Social media

The people who built social media give their own kids 90 minutes a week

Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Evan Spiegel, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all ration screens at home. Your kid’s average? 7.5 hours a day.

Facebook is the No. 1 place Americans lose money to scammers

New FTC data reveals scams starting on social media cost Americans $2.1 billion last year, and Facebook tops the list. Losses have exploded eightfold since 2020. Here are the exact settings that cut scammers off.

YouTube can drop you into any video, and strangers can pop into yours

Whoa. That’s me up top on the TV, starring in a futuristic sci-fi flick like I trained for it my whole life. (I didn’t. The closest I get to special effects is yelling at Siri.) And I didn’t shoot a single second of it. At Google I/O, the platform quietly switched on AI tools that […]

Instagram killed your DM encryption. Here’s what Meta can see now.

As of May 8, Instagram removed end-to-end encryption from direct messages. Every photo, voice note and message you send is readable by Meta and shareable with law enforcement.

We stopped talking to our kids. The damage is permanent.

A WSJ study found Americans speak 28% fewer words daily than we did in 2005. Parents on phones speak 16% fewer words to babies. That silence is stealing our children’s future vocabulary.

Gone but not offline

The U.S. Patent Office handed Meta the legal right to simulate you after you’re gone. Your posts, comments and voice messages are the training data. Here’s what you need to do about it today.

Your emoji means something completely different to your kids. Here’s the decode

You sent a thumbs-up. They took it as passive-aggressive. You used the skull. They thought you were hilarious. Nobody told you the rules changed.

5 weirdly popular YouTube channels you’ve never heard of (but won’t be able to stop watching)

Millions of people have leaped down these rabbit holes. This Friday, you will, too.

Robots hiring humans: Inside the strange new AI side hustle

RentAHuman.ai lets AI bots post real-world tasks for people to complete. The pay is in crypto, the security is sketchy and the whole thing feels like a Black Mirror episode.

The resale apps actually worth your time and the $2,400 hiding in your closet

Kim Komando reveals which resale apps pay instantly, what items are secretly worth hundreds and why live-selling platforms are crushing traditional resale apps in 2026.

The single sign-on trap: How one click snitches on you to 10,000 sites

Kim Komando reveals how clicking Sign in with Google or Sign in with Facebook lets tech giants track every site you visit and everything you do there.

The great digital purge is upon us

When was the last time you logged into that old Gmail account or your photo storage app? If it’s been a while, don’t be shocked if all your stuff is gone for good. Most tech companies have policies that let them totally wipe out your account and everything in it if you haven’t signed in […]

Real estate secrets hiding in plain sight

Most people hop on real estate sites just to see their dream house or check local sales prices. That’s cute, but if you know where to click, these sites cough up more secrets than your drunk aunt at Thanksgiving.  🏠 Homes.com, The Mortgage Peep ShowThis one is crazy. Search an address, scroll down far enough […]

People are glued on YouTube, watching planes land at LAX

Move over, cat videos and cooking hacks, there’s a new YouTube obsession, and it’s planes landing at LAX. No, really. I thought you’d find it interesting that a channel called Airline Videos Live is racking up millions of views pointing a camera at the runway at Los Angeles International Airport.  It’s exactly what it sounds […]

Reset your social media algorithms

Ever scroll through Instagram or Facebook and wonder, Why am I still seeing goat yoga videos and political or family drama from 2009? Our social media feeds are Frankenstein monsters built from everything we’ve clicked on, liked, hovered over or even winced at for half a second.  Good news: You can hit the big, shiny […]

The folks trading retirement for influencer status

Simple steps to making big bucks on social media as a grandfluencer.

How to take the perfect profile pic for social media sites

Tips for taking the perfect profile pics for social media.

Hiring or looking for a job? Upgrade your LinkedIn profile to stand out

LinkedIn tips to find your next superstar employee.

Haven’t logged into LinkedIn lately? 5 reasons you really should be using it

5 ways to use LinkedIn to network, poach employees, boost your career and more.

5 ways to improve your LinkedIn profile

Simple ways to spruce up your LinkedIn profile.