We were talking in the dressing room. With all she knows about the business, why did she decide to do reality tv . Im interested to know what her answer is. How is it, by the way, for you . Other than this, its been great. Its been great. Its great being here. Its fun . Seeing everybody. Its really lovely. Feel like home again . No. No, is it does. It does. Im having a hard week because my kids are going back to college on sunday, and i realize this vacation because our oldest son, ben, lives in china, and he came home for three days, which was great, and then he left for tasmania on christmas to visit his girlfriend, and i realized in that moment that my kids are not going to be around for holidays. Its not when theyre little, theyre there, but now thats not going to happen as much. Gabe, yeah. He comes home last night with lily, and the lights are im sitting in the living room having a glass of wine, actually. Of course you are. He said, mom, do you notice anything. Gabe had pierced his ear, and he is not somebody that i thought why did you do that . He said because dad has once pierced ear. Richard did it when he was 18. He wears one little earring. Its a reminder of his hippie days. I want dad to know im always thinking of him. It was so sweet. It was a wonderful moment where you go, oh, he is a good boy. He is. Wow. Yeah. Its probably going to get infected, but it was a sweet moment. It was a sweet moment. It really was. All right. We know that new years resolutions have passed. A lot of people have made them and probably broke them. I dont make them. You dont make them . No. I know im going to break them. Okay. I try to be good all year long. But you do. I make the same ones usually every year. I make the resolution to be more organized and neat and so i can find stuff, and yesterday i was coming home, and i was carrying a dry cleaning bag, and i had so many packages, and im at my apartment door, and i cannot find my keys, and im digging in my purse, and the purse i have is a long those long purses. You can never find anything. Why do you have that . I dont know. I was so pissed in that hallway, and you know when youre just standing there going, and you are just, like, youre letting loose. Like the way youve done on every show so far that ive been on. I want to clarify. No, lets not. Who swore yesterday. It was not me. Okay . Of the two of us, it was not me. It was me. Okay. This is kind of cool. Its very cool. Its an interactive map and helps everybody keep their resolutions. There are dots all over the world. If you click on the dot, you find out somebodys resolution. Thats cool. You can look around. If you want to look like what people are resolving in your area, you can check. Lets check. What are some of the what are some of the organize hodas purse. Stop swearing on tv. Thats not mine. Clean merediths fireplace. A red dot means love. Pink is family. Blue is other. Thats kind of a cool idea. You can go on that app, and you can even click all the way around the world to find out what people in china are resolving and what people in europe and that kind of thing. Would that encourage you to keep your resolutions seeing what other people are doing . No. I would be curious to see what other people want to do. Yeah. What kind of changes they want to make. I bet so many people its losing weight. They want to lose weight. Yeah. Theres actually a new app thats out. Is that correct . This is a cool thing. This is the kind of deal where you punch in your height, your weight, and how much weight you want to lose over what kind of a period of time, and you type it in this app, and its called my fit pal. Com. They say this is the number one app for weight loss. It breaks it down to how many calories you need to eat per day to get your goal by whatever time you would like to reach your goal. I thought that was cool. You dont really have to think about it. You put the info in, and it follows it for you. You put your food in. They calculate the calories. You know how many more calories you have before the end and that. I dont think im disciplined enough to punch everything in, and i think if i even wrote down what i eat over the course of a day you would be freaked out. I would be disgusted with myself. You are not a big eater. I am. You know what im big on . This junk food. This is true. Theres a new study. Three Million People from all over the world, and it shows that people who are overweight are actually live longer than people of normal weight. Slightly overweight. Yeah. I think thats very interesting. I think it is too. I think its, what, 10 to 20 pounds or 20 to 30. They say if you have extra meat on your bones, things like if you fall down less likely to break a bone. Less likely to break a bone. If you get sick, fat reserves, your body can kick into those. Actually, if you are overweight, they say youre more likely to go to the doctor on a regular basis. You have you have issues. So youre getting checked out more often. I do not believe that part, do you . Yeah. I think do you . Why not . I dont know. I dont know. It seems a little weird. I think 20 to 30 pounds is a big gap, isnt it . Yeah, but they also said that if you are slightly obese, maybe thats 20 pounds, 30. , youre going to live at least as long. As least as long somebody with low weight. Whats that about . Lets have a little drink. Where have you been . So there is hmm. Isnt that nice . Its colby red. Its very delicious. So people in nebraska have taken on a new game, and its called fling the fruitcake, and this is because a park superintendent this is real. It happened. Park superintendent did not like fruitcakes, and so he decided to make a contest of tossing them. I guess in measuring how far people were throwing them. I love this. Fruitcakes are disgusting. They are nasty. What theyve done here so that people dont waste food is theyve filled those cakes with bird seed so that the birds can polish off the cake. Its not wasting it exactly. There are no theres no really any prize winners, but its something fun to do. We thought what would be fun more fun than us doing it here. So we have oh, my god. Oh, wait. Look at youssef and jerry. Where would you like to stand . These are heavy. The idea is to see how many people these might hurt you. Do you have helmets . Seriously, you might need a helmet. I cant throw that far. Can you throw that far . I dont know. Please stop cursing. We turn the whole thing or half . Half. Oh, theyre moving. Jerry. Jerry wait. Oh, yeah. Come on, jerry. Come on. Come on, youssef. Come on. Oh, that was right in the come on. Oh, that was right in the kisser. I like this game. Im getting out a lot of aggression. Oh, hit him on the leg. This is fun. Come on. Oh, my god. I like this game. Oh, my god. Im exhausted. How is this cake . I dont know. Eat it. Give me a bite. Get over here. Its terrible. Is it awful . Youre not supposed to eat anything off the floor. Oh, my god. I feel so much better for having done that. Dont you . While we catch our breath, do you know what i think its time for, its time for bobbys buzz. Come on over, b. T. Im so impressed, hoda. You in heels dancing around. Hello. I hit it more than hoda. She kind of did. She was running in those heels. I was running. That was crazy. I want to help you get the year off on a stylish step. A couple of things that i want to give you, right now if you want to take inventory of your wardrobe, take everything in your closet thats hanging and turn it backwards and then as you wear things this year, turn the hanger put it back normal, so by the time you edit your closet in the spring, everything thats backwards you havent worn. Get rid of it . Yes. Thats a good way to help you start. I have some cool new boot sticks from the Container Store that will keep your boots together and standing up in your closet, and everyone should are a fabric shaver. This is a really cool idea to get rid of all the pilling on the sweaters. Oh, yeah. Turn it on. Its amazing. It gets rid of all those dots and gives your sweater, especially this time of year, all winter long youve been putting your purse and it kind of gets marked up, and then, of course, everyone should have a steamer. Youre saying yes, but im shocked at how many people probably watching right now do not own a steamer, and if really . You use the iron. You dont have to iron. Its so much easier. If you cant get rid of your iron, this panasonic is cordless. Its a steamer and an iron. Its cordless, and eight seconds it charges, and you steam and iron. I dont like steamers because your hair frizzes out. Youre not supposed to steam your hair. What is the matter with you . You could get burned. Oh, my goodness. Bobby is bobby, Winter Clothes are not your spring clothes. By the time spring comes and youre going to put your winter stuff away, youll know what not to store. Oh, okay. So it helps you edit. For the next season. Exactly. All right. Be careful when you tweet. How to make sure you and your kids are safe when it comes to social media and twitter. Girls just want to have fun. Cindy lauper tells us about her new reality show. First these messages. 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Hoda, you are the queen of the 23rd, and meredith, whether you are doing the tweeting or its your kids, theyre probably doing it with a mobile device like this, which could be revealing much more information than you want to put out there. Today we live in a world of instant communication. Thats great for sending messages fast. This lightning speed tweeting, posting on facebook, and instagram could put your safety and security at risk. I love facebook, but i adore twitter, and i especially love it during my show to read what people are saying. Welcome back. Msnbc anchor tamron hall is savvy at twitter, but she once revealed too much information at a concert. I tweeted i was there, and someone found me. Now i will often say i was at a location rather than i am there, and just for logical reasons. After being a victim of Cyber Bullying a few years back, safety is a top priority for her. Overall you feel like youre pretty safe on twitter . I do. I think i am. I checked your twitter account and found out that she wasnt being as safe as she thought. Starting in midoctober whenever you were tweeting from your iphone you have been tweeting out your location too. Let me show you. I thought i stopped doing that. Are you serious . I am serious. So lets look here. No, i took it off. Smartphones have builtin gps software for apps like maps and weather use to give you locationspecific information. Head northwest on west 49th street. Its easy to forget your location is turned on when using other apps too. With location enabled on twitter, your tweets show this icon and your city. Simply clicking this link launches google maps and allows anyone to zoom in to your approximate location. Thats border line creepy. Its not border line creepy. It is creepy, and it makes me not want to tweet now. While she was tweeting during the president ial debates one night, she wasnt at work or in a public place. So this neighborhood looks familiar to you . It does, indeed. Thats where i live. Google maps and smartphones say a Location Information is approximate, but i found out its actually pretty accurate. Cant wait with location enabled, i tweeted from inside magnolia bakery. On google maps it registered my approximate location is right here on 49th street and the corner of sixth avenue, but its really only about one, two, three, four, five steps away from the actual location. To show just how much information youre sharing with locationenabled for social media, i tracked today show intern Morgan Lentes for a few days. She got her haircut on 46th street, left for work from west 33rd street, visited the studio 1a control room at 48th street, shopped at macys at 34th street, met her brotherinlaw for a drink near pen station, ate dinner at her friends apartment on ninth avenue, flew to ohio leaving from la guardia airport, stayed at a friends apartment in columbus, and had dinner at mad mex restaurant on north high street. It freaked me out to think that you basically know where i was. Through google maps i was able to find street View Pictures of every place she went. What about this one right here . This is the one that freaked me out the most. Thats my friends apartment in columbus where i spent the weekend. My hands are shaking. Thats crazy. 230r tamron she uses some maps that need her location, but we found out the reason it was showing up on twitter too. Its on. Your Location Services on. Thats exactly what happened. Turn off. Turn off. Never to be turned back on again. Done. Done. You learn something every day. Yeah. The very freaked out tamron hall. That was on msnbc. You are very savvy, tech savvy. But you had no idea you were i purchased a new iphone. Hi the generation before this, whatever, and i bought it, and it was automatically, i guess, loaded with the Location Services on. I had no idea. You thought you blocked it. I thought i did, and then when i got this new phone, it was automatically set up, and when i was happy kyle did not show my home, but it showed through my window of my home where i was tweeting from. I think what a lot of people do, like, youre at a concert, and you say im at a concert, and thats not you corrected yourself, and you said im not going to do that again, but a lot of people, youre there and shooting pictures. Youre excited. Is that a nono . Should you not tweet if you are at a public event like that . I think you need to balance it. Its a clear balance. You can have a lot of benefits from actually tweeting and checking in. You can get rewards and get discounts. You can benefit from it and meet with people in places where theyre in the same area. The problem is if you are doing it too much or if you are starting to do it where people can start to stereotype you. Are you going to bars and restaurants . Are you always hanging out at clubs . Are you in the Doctors Office tweeting and your location from the doctors . That could tell Insurance Companies maybe we should increase your premiums. Paying that close attention to your tweeting . Absolutely. I get worried sometimes because when you say even if you just say youre not home, i have thought about i wonder if someone know im not at my apartment, and therefore, im on vacation, lets say, and they say, wow, thats a perfect open target for someone to go ransack a home. Does that happen . It has happened. With twitter and everything, its brand new. There was a lot of that. Dont tweet when you are going away for vacation or extended periods of time because people that may know you or can find information about your address could use that against you. I dont subscribe to that thought that people are waiting for me to leave my residence, but you still have to have a dose of comfort and some security and some peace of mind. Go ahead. Im sorry. You just the biggest thing i see people also do is they check in at their home. Dont yeah. The president ial debate was on that night, so i was watching for work, and obviously, since im an american citizen that votes, i was watching, and im tweeting there live, but the thing theres a movie called enemies of the state with will smith. And when i saw kyles piece, i felt we were living in that time where someone, whether its a company or someone who chooses to follow you, can track your every move. That is creepy. What if i am a parent . Some are totally i dont want to hear anything about it. I dont want my kids on it at all. Unfortunately, we have to raise our children to be internet citizens. Theyre coming up in this digital era. We need to teach them how to make smart decisions with technology, and the thing that they do like about it is that they can cookie crumb where they go. Some parents say im going to i want to know where you are and when you check in, i can get a text message on my phone, so i know where you are. Thats peace of mind to some. All right. Well, one last question, kyle. How do you physically turn it off . Like if you want to get rid of that location service, what should you do . If you are an iphone or ipad user, its really, really simple. You just go to your ipad. It works the same way on your iphone. You hit settings. Go to privacy. Then you hit Location Services right up here, and it shows you all of the apps that need your location to function. If you want it on for maps, we can have it turned on for maps because that means your gps location to work, but if i want to turn it off for twitter, so all my tweets dont show my exact location. If you were to turn off your complete location service, do that. If you were to turn off a big button on top, that means everything goes away. If you want no one to know anything, thats how you do it . Correct. If your map is on, people dont know youre there, do you . Correct. Just to make sure. You pick and choose. Kyle, thank you. Thanks, guys. Thanks for everything. Sarah is across the street riling the crowd up because we asked whacky questions. Little word game. I think your friends will understand. Oh no, its actually my geico app. See . I just uh paid my bill. Did you really . From the plane . Yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24 7. Sounds a little too good to be true sir. Ill believe that when pigs fly. Ok, did she seriously just say t