According to recent research, not really. It isn’t any more of a drain on productivity than the same old things we did before the Internet. That’s not the only surprising thing you may find in this article: The Internet Isn’t What’s Distracting Us The Most At Work On what we waste the most time doing…
I’ve been hanging on to a couple of articles recently that talk about some of the misinformation that gets spread online. Specifically, not just that the information is false, but that we don’t really seem to care. For example, did you know that the Washington Posts “What Was Fake on the Internet This Week” column…
“Our psychology of e-mail doesn’t match the reality. We treat them as ephemeral, even though they’re not. And the archival nature of e-mail — or text messages, or Twitter chats, or Facebook conversations — isn’t salient.” It’s so easy to fire off an email, comment, or tweet, without thinking about someone reading it years later….
“Years from now, when telling my future grandchildren about 2015, I will speak at length about the treachery, fibs, toxic scoops, deceits, tall tales, viral hoaxes, half-truths, tomfoolery, unverified junk and fake news.” Sadly, I’ve seen most of the fake stories listed in this article shared over and over again by people on Facebook and…
“The short video which was the trigger for this thought is about Ringtail’s ability to manage social media. It takes as an example a Facebook post with a photograph, Comments, Likes etc, and shows how this kind of data can be assimilated into Ringtail, viewed and tagged like any other, and appear in search results,…
An online quiz that illustrates the words you use the most on Facebook as a “word cloud” has gone viral — and it’s a great reminder of why you should be wary of connecting ostensibly fun games with your account. UK-based VPN comparison website Comparitech has delved into how it collects not just your name,…