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With the proliferation of the internet and the growing number of users of social media, one is often confronted with the question: What about privacy? The adage “What happens on the internet, stays on the internet” is indeed true. Are…
Over the holiday season, I decided to take some time off and travel to Asia – Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. The plan was to unplug — no blogs, podcasts, tweets, or Facebook posts — and smell the proverbial roses.…
If you are a user of Facebook, Twitter, or “LinkedIn”, you probably have come across aspects of it that annoy or intrigue you. Perhaps it is a “friend” who “tags” you in pictures that you did not want posted on…
Recently the popular user-review site Yelp.com announced that it had proof that some of the reviews posted on its site were bought. Yelp quickly took steps to publicly identify some of these miscreants by posting warning messages alongside the fake reviews,…
We all know of or have been associated with addictions of one sort or the other. A simple web search for common addictions will bring up the usual suspects: alcohol, nicotine, drugs, gambling, and sex. Sex addiction got a lot…
One way or the other most of us have come across rating agencies. The hoopla around Standard & Poor’s downgrading of US credit rating last August is still fresh in our minds. We are also familiar with our own anxieties…
I have been on Twitter since the March of 2012. I do not actively try to grow my following or try to game it. When I originally wrote this post, I had approximately 200 followers; and I followed roughly about…
If you are single and have been exploring the web or Social Media to find your soulmate, you may want to fly KLM! Early this year KLM introduced a ”Meet & Seat” program that allows passengers to view the Facebook…
Last updated on August 11th, 2021 Is beer really the original social network? Sure, the claim was originally made by Anheuser-Busch InBev, but it sort of makes sense. Like Social Media networks, beer is a good medium to connect, shoot the breeze,…
“Likes” and “Followers” are for sale So, when did it become socially acceptable for you to ask someone to like you or follow you? In the real world, if you did that, you would be perceived as rather strange. If…