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Tag Archives: facebook
Who are you?
3 CommentsOn Nov 15, The New York Times published a story about Facebook forcing Salman Rushdie to use his real name — Ahhmed — on his profile, even as he is commonly known as Salman. Facebook makes the argument that forcing … Continue reading
Privacy and autonomy
7 CommentsBefore I delve into my post, I need to share the series of events that lead me to my thinking about privacy and it’s relationship to autonomy. Bear with me; it is a badly-paved and less travelled road*. Watch that … Continue reading
Was it live or was it Facebook?
7 CommentsYesterday, @damnredhead tweeted: “Hey baby, did you show up in my ticker last night or was I just dreaming?” I chuckled quickly and shook my head slowly from side to side like most of her readers probably did. I got … Continue reading
What Kenneth Cole knows that you don’t
3 CommentsHe knows that if you are one of the bloggers and tweeters who are all up in arms about his use of the #egypt hastag in his tweet yesterday, you’re probably not one of his customers. Why? Because you scream … Continue reading
Why Skype+Facebook makes a ton of sense
Leave a commentThe rules for us old timers are: 1) Never leave a voicemail or send an email that you didn’t want repeated. 2) Always call from a pay phone when you didn’t want Caller ID to show up 3) Phone calls … Continue reading
So like sheep, these media types
16 CommentsLifted from telegraph.co.uk BBC Do social sites like Facebook connect the world or isolate people? Undergraduate Soraya Mehdizadeh of York University claims to know the answer and has researched this question for a senior paper that was published in Cyberpsychology, … Continue reading
Facebook’s privacy mess just a way out of a larger mess that has everything to do with software management
1 CommentIt seems that everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s privacy mess and I would be remiss if I didn’t just jump right on the bandwagon and try to grab some limelight (two clichés in one sentence!) Here is what I … Continue reading