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How To Argue And Debate On The Internet Without Becoming A Troll
JESSE NIVENS Trolling has been in the news a lot recently, often for questionable reasons. Campaigns aside, the problem isn ¢â‚¬â„¢t about to evaporate. Freedom of speech means you ¢â‚¬â„¢ll inevitably hear something you don ¢â‚¬â„¢t like, and in practice you can ¢â‚¬â„¢t get around online without being drawn into a shootout from time to time. When that happens, these […]
Facebook is not your friend!!!
You might not like it, but you and Facebook are worst friends forever Annabel Crabb July 1, 2012 Your funky pal is copyrighting the words Face and Book – and using your life for commercial gain. THE news last week that Facebook had bumped millions of unsuspecting users onto new and unwanted ”Facebook” email addresses […]
Facebook: Is It Making Us Lonely?
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? Social media ¢â‚¬”from Facebook to Twitter ¢â‚¬”have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic) ¢â‚¬”and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to […]
Emails – waste of time and money?
From Time, April 9, 2012 (p. 42): Corporate email storage is growing 20% to 25% a year, thanks in part to heavier file sharing, according to data consultancy Osterman Research. The data dump sucks $997 billion in productivity out of US workers annually, according to research firm Basex. ‘Email is an inherently poor tool for […]
Copyright vs free information-sharing (a new religion)
Sightings 1/26/2012 Shared Paradise — Robert M Geraci There ¢â‚¬â„¢s a new flying spaghetti monster in the spiritual marketplace: the Church of Kopimism. The newly ¢â‚¬Å“established ¢â‚¬ religion has become the talk of the internet, in part because of its transparently ¢â‚¬Å“unreligious ¢â‚¬ outlook and in part because of the group ¢â‚¬â„¢s social perspective. The Church of Kopimism, which received […]
COMPUTER PASSWORDS
Jottings from a good article in the Melbourne Age’s Green Guide by Charles Wright (Sept 29, 2011): * One commonly available ‘password guesser’ can recover 24% of all passwords by using just 100,000 combinations: it can test several hundred thousand passwords in a second * The free open-source Password Safe site (bit.ly/1tqNES) helps you keep […]
STARTING A NEW FACEBOOK PAGE/GROUP 15/09/2011
Dear FB friends, I’m allocating an hour or two today to mastering how to reach the hundreds of people I’ve ‘Not Now’d’ when they requested friendship. A good friend in a similar situation suggests the following, and I’d appreciate any help/comments/suggestions. (I’ve always been a consensus/let’s-do-it-together leader)… For example, do I really have to re-apply […]
Science of the social network (Facebook et. al)
Forget the scare stories, what effect is Facebook really having on how we interact with each other? Nick Harding gets an anthropological insight Monday, 1 August 2011 GETTY IMAGES Previous research into Facebook tended to fall into the pop-psychology bracket or concentrated on specific subjects Anyone for a spot of Facebook bashing? Thanks to […]
Darling, it’s over: Has technology made it impossible to have an affair?
Mobile phones, BlackBerrys, emails, social networking… Never before has it been so easy to cheat on a partner. But has technology made it simply too difficult for philanderers to cover their tracks? With evidence suggesting that fewer people are undertaking long-term extramarital love affairs, Nick Harding peers beneath the sheets and asks: is it the […]
Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians
By Josh McDowell Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said. (Photo: The Christian Post) Author Josh McDowell addresses attendees of the International Christian Retail […]
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