It is incredible how cavalierly these companies put sensitive information into people’s hands without even a word of warning.  I love to take photos but was unaware of the risk involved when you take photos with your cell phone and post them online (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Unless you go into the GPS settings and turn off the tracking option, the location of the photo you just took is visible to...

I definitely prefer talking to text messaging unless I’m in a setting where its impossible to have a phone conversation. While text messages are great, they go only so far. They can’t tell me if I’ve made the person I’m communicating with upset, uncomfortable, insulted or angry. When we speak face to face, we pick up visual cues and listen for audible cues to assess how the conversation is going. ...

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with my 80 year old aunt who, except for a spell in Canada, has lived in the U.K. since 1954 – way before I was born. I’m not sure how the conversation veered towards her trip from Kingston, Jamaica to London but for the first time I heard that she and 16 others had traveled on the Reina del Pacifico, the ocean liner...