… texting without knowing cell phone numbers. After I decided to kill my Facebook page, enjoyed Google+ (which remains a bit desolate, compared to FB) and reverted to good ol’ emails, I’m now finding Twitter very useful for a number of reasons that I will explain below. 1. Newsfeed Twitter is the perfect news reader. [...]
Cleaning up the list of social networks, keeping 2. The joy of reading a book I’ve read many years ago. A warm Sunday night. A movie in the backyard. October at its best.
I recently joined the Post A Day/Week 2011 challenge (see, The Daily Post) and I’ll post whenever I get the time, at least once a week. It’s going well so far. I like to write stuff during breaks at work, sipping coffee or tea, chatting with colleagues. One funny thing I realised today is that [...]
At PodCamp Toronto yesterday, one of the intriguing sessions was Brad Buset’s presentation about privacy, and how there needs to be more awareness of how much information we’re disclosing via social networks.
It’s an issue that has been lost in the shuffle amid the excitement about sharing what you’re doing, thinking, eating, going, drinking, buying and where you’re located. Everyone is pounding away on their keyboards to broadcast everything and anything without much thought to whether disclosing this information has a downside. In many ways, we’re drunk on social media.
The reality is there’s a dark side to social media that people need to serious start thinking about now. Every tweet, update, video and blog post is micro-chapter of your public profile that anyone can access. Sure, it’s information that is created for friends, family and colleagues but it’s also out there for other people with less virtuous interests.
Glitch Brings New Worries About Facebook’s Privacy – NYTimes.com. I must confess that, aside from the very easy-to-upload-&-share photo albums, Facebook has been rather useless lately. I ignore all applications, games, send a heart, send a dinosaur, send a stone, etc. Plus, quite a few of my friends have been experiencing issues with the chat [...]
Excerpt: “SAN FRANCISCO — When Google introduced Buzz — its answer to Facebook and Twitter — it hoped to get the service off to a fast start. New users of Buzz, which was added to Gmail on Tuesday, found themselves with a ready-made network of friends automatically selected by the company based on the people [...]
Excerpt: ”I don’t really use Facebook but plenty of my friends do. They might be interested to know that the social network giant growth appears to be powered by coal, the number 1 cause of climate change. In late January, Facebook announced that its new Oregon data center, the data center farms that create the cloud [...]
(from my MySpace page) I opened this MySpace account back in 2005 I think, and I haven’t started using it until 3 years later. I guess this shows my love to social networking. I also have a Facebook account now and more than once I’ve been tempted to close either MySpace or Facebook, but I [...]
