Web Security

Teenagers now text so much that the cell phone text has replaced face-to-face conversations as the primary way they communicate with friends.  Usually it's just the standard teenage conversation, smattered with commentary about events around them and pop culture, or a way of having their friends along with them through family events that bore them—like dinner.

Friday the 13th may just be another day, but for many of us it's a reminder of some of those moments where luck failed us.  And as we depend more and more on technology, tech failures have loomed larger and larger in the bad luck department.

Technology is supposed to make life easier. But sometimes, it's a bit of an albatross. When tech goes wrong, it can get expensive, and complicate our lives more than it helps.

I've been seeing a lot of a new Facebook scam lately.  It's the strangest one I've seen yet, because it comes veiled in a "friend request".

Have you ever gotten a chain letter, or a chain e-mail? Back in the days when we actually sent letters on paper with postage, chain letters usually promised something good would happen if you sent copies of it to a certain number of friends.  Then, one day, someone had the bright idea to use e-mail for chain letters, and email in-boxes worldwide began to fill up with them.