The New York Times has an article that expresses much of the sentiment I’ve been forming about Facebook over the last several months. It says there is a small but growing group of people who are leaving the site after putting some thought into its implications. To summarize this sentiment in one sentence: commercializing the [...]
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Another popular blogger gets fired
PittGirl, an anonymous blogger and vocal critic of local government in Pittsburgh, revealed her identity when she realized readers were getting close to figuring it out.
And the non-profit where she worked canned her. The reason? In her words, they “didn’t need the distraction.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/21/outing.anonymous.bloggers/
How to keep Facebook from using your profile photo in its ads
Earlier I posted about how Facebook is using our profile photos in its ads in distressing ways. It turns out there is a way to disable this. Unsurprisingly, Facebook does not broadcast this fact. But all you have to do is change a setting.
Just go to Settings in the upper right corner, and choose Privacy Settings. On [...]
Should we let recruiters we’re interviewing with see our Linked In pages?
Recently I was contacted by a local company that had located me online somehow, whether through Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure. They wanted me to interview for a web development position. The position was pretty similar to my current one and I wasn’t really looking to move, but I agreed to interview. If nothing [...]
Facebook quizzes: Fun, but not so innocent
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on Facebook, you’ve most likely been inundated with posts from friends announcing the fascinating result of a survey they’ve just completed, along with an invitation to participate in the same survey and announce what you found out to the world.
This can be a lot of fun. The [...]