SEIONA Blog
Tips, updates, and practical guidance for safer family technology.
Many social media platforms, such as TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube, are often framed as having no concern for child safety. These platforms have b...
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For many millennial parents, the internet was open by default. We created usernames on forums, joined chatrooms, customized our MySpace profiles, and played ...
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Attorney General Ken Paxton Files Landmark Lawsuit Against Discord For many millennial parents, Discord still feels like a gaming tool. It's often des...
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Inside the pay-to-play world of Roblox targeting children For many millennial parents, Roblox looks like the modern version of the online games we grew up wi...
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The Rise of Online Gambling Among Kids: What Millennial Parents Should KnowOver the last decade, video games like Fortnite and Overwatch faced heavy scrutiny...
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Roblox Introduces New Age-Based Accounts and Expanded Parental Controls for Users Under 16 Roblox Is Splitting Childhood Online Roblox is one of the largest...
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Jo Jo Learning Land YouTube Navigating Modern Parenting Online Do you remember the weird corners of the internet we explored as kids? Flash games, creepy pas...
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TikTok Gets U.S Ownership TikTok will have U.S ownership soon. ByteDance signed a deal to sell part of its U.S. operations to American investors. They will m...
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Australia Banned Social Media for Kids Australia is the first country to enforce a nationwide social media ban for kids under 16 with the goal of reducing th...
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Teens Are Quietly Replacing Real Connection With AI Chatbots For millennial teens, connecting online meant MySpace, MSN, AIM, and countless forums. For soc...
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(Web Design Museum) Creating the perfect AIM away message. Carefully curating your Top 8 on MySpace. Playing Neopets for hours. The old internet gave us endl...
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Brain rot is defined as hyper-stimulating content with fast cuts, vibrant scenes, and a perceived lack of beneficial substance. Parents and educators often p...
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Raising resilient kids has always been a parenting standard, but the playground has changed. Today’s challenges include navigating an online world designed t...
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Kids today are growing up on camera, not necessarily to be documented solely for family home videos, but to be showcased online to strangers, often not by th...
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(Bad Influence: The Darkside of Kidfluencing) Many of us dreamed of becoming astronauts, presidents, or royalty. Those dreams fueled our imagination and crea...
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Club Penguin, Neopets, and Toontown Online weren’t just regular video games, they were vibrant digital playgrounds built specifically for kids, with safety, ...
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There was a time when uploading content online felt like a unique surreal experience. Grainy webcam selfies, overly filtered Instagram pics, or Tumblr reblog...
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(Netflix: Adolescence) Millennials, we were the first generation to navigate the uncharted waters of social networking, from the raw authenticity of MySpace ...
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Infecting the family computer with a virus was a rite of passage for young millennials downloading "free" music through peer-to-peer platforms like Limewire....
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The Infamous "iPad Kids" When iPads first launched, they revolutionized tablet computing, making it accessible to the mainstream through innovative technol...
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The Birth Of Influencers The rise of MySpace, YouTube, and underground forums opened the doors to opportunities to connect with people in a way never done be...
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AI From Fiction To Reality! For millennials, AI has always been a concept straight out of sci-fi films. We grew up watching Terminator 2, The Matrix, Smart H...
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Classroom Tech: From Overhead Projectors to iPads We all knew it would be a good day if the teacher rolled in the big TV cart. If we were lucky, the VHS wa...
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(Charli D'Amelio, Meredith Duxbury, Babydumplingg) Genuine Content Is Hard To Come By Millennials are all too familiar with influencers: how they were when ...
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How TikTok's Ban Could Reshape Gen Alpha's Digital World In our youth, we were obsessed with posting on Myspace or endlessly scrolling through Tumblr. In mor...
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Get The Game Now, Buy The Rest Later: For many millennial gamers growing up, the only thing standing between us and our favorite games was a trip to the sto...
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Social Media Wisdom for Gen Alpha As the OG social media pioneers, we watched the internet transform from AIM chat rooms and MySpace top 8 to the hyper-conne...
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How Millennial and Gen Alpha Language Tells a Digital Story Internet slang and shorthand text were convenient ways for us millennials to communicate with the...
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Influencer Marketing Impact On Kids Millennials witnessed the evolution of internet influence firsthand! From the early days of MySpace bulletins to today's...
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From Parents With Halo to Kids With Fortnite As millennial parents, we grew up with gaming and internet trends that shaped our lives—whether socializing in C...
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(Image Source: Final Days to Launch: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6) The Icon Continues to Thrive! One franchise that stands the test of time is Call of Duty. For...
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The Standard For Child Safety In Online Gaming Roblox likely tops the list of popular online games for kids today. Millennials aren't strangers to online gam...
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(Pew Research) When Did We Get Devices Compared to Our Kids? Remember when getting your first cell phone was a big deal? Now, toddlers are swiping screens ...
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Why Millennial Parents Are the Perfect Online Safety Guides Do you remember the first time you explored the internet in the early 2000s? I vividly recall th...
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Kids Dream Big While working in education, I learned that many kids dream of being social media influencers. Most millennials remember influencers as people ...
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A Popular Online Game and Community App Among Kids Booting up the family computer after a long day at school was special for many millennials. My friends and...
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"We millennials know firsthand the addictive nature of consuming online content. We created the internet culture that directly affects our kids today."
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