When I first saw someone post this app to Facebook, my immediate thought was, really? Is this a good idea? 4. Couldn’t this be used for bullying? UM, DUH. 5. Seriously, right? An anonymous thing where you can write to a person? Sounds bad. Well, it says “Leave a constructive message :)” at the top…
If we think about how the internet companies are all battling for our attention, and using all kinds of manipulation to do so, can we be involved with social media on our own terms? I will say this, Tristan is also correct that as long as advertising is the financial base for internet companies,…
Well, that’s what we tell ourselves anyway, and if you pay attention to social media at all, you’ll surely not be shocked by this: New research shows that most people tend to believe that others will come around to their point of view over time. This belief in a “favorable future” sheds light on some…
Let’s face it. The internet isn’t going away. It’s here to stay, for better and worse. This article does a fair job of describing both the benefits to kids and teens of using social media and the internet in general, as well as the risks. They both exist, let’s not kid ourselves. Don’t hide your…
If you haven’t seen it online already, or watched the documentary on the History channel, this was what we were being told about this photograph. Producers with a History Channel documentary recently found the picture in the National Archives and promoted it as new evidence indicating Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, survived a plane…
Frankly, I think this is a better place for Twitter to focus. The previous attempts to “silence” trolls was full of hit and miss decisions about what was appropriate and what was not, and was clearly being decided upon by biased human beings. If you can’t define abuse without creating massive problems, maybe the best…