Facebook’s new ad tracking partnership stokes privacy concerns
Facebook is pairing up with Datalogix to track whether people who see ads for products on the social networking site actually go out and purchase them in stores. To measure how well Facebook’s ads are...
View ArticleHow To Manage Your Digital Afterlife
If the psychologist Carl Jung was alive today, he may have said, your digital world is your shadow. In many ways it’s the best representation of your personality and your aspirations because of its...
View ArticleDo Facebook Junkies Have Real Friends?
Facebook is the biggest reality show in the world. It has more than 1 billion unpaid actors who live a portion of the lives online. Recently I was interviewed by the Weekend Post newspaper about...
View ArticleA Conversation About Facebook Hacking
Recently I answered a series of questions via email to a journalist at the Herald newspaper. How exactly do people hack Facebook accounts and duplicate them? You may be more likely to be a target of...
View ArticleYour Social Media Policy vs Students
In the last two weeks several stories appeared in the news media in South Africa about Facebook confession pages from big universities. There’s numerous references to matters that is and should remain...
View ArticleSocial network interview about Facebook
Every now and then students contact me while doing research on articles I’ve written on this blog or interviews published on my work. So this one started out very interesting although the eventual...
View ArticleSMS' Can Relieve Stressed, Lonely People
BERKELEY — Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behaviour such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley,...
View ArticleGoogle plus is a minus
Most people in my workshops have either not heard of Google+ or do nothing after signing up. They feel this way because like 850 million other people, they invested heavily in Facebook profiles...
View ArticleSocial media tools
There are plenty of social media tools that can be used in the different social media internet sites. These social media tools were set up to be used to enhance the different activities that one can do...
View ArticleOnline gambling promises new revenues for Facebook
Comment: This seems a latest attempt to ensure revenue and cash flow grows after listing for Facebook. UK-based online gambling holding Gamesys has launched a new Facebook app called ‘Bingo Friendzy’,...
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