Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
This is an excellent short lecture on the true value of privacy. Even if you had no profiles online, you’re still being recorded on every camera in offices buildings, malls and airports by CCTV. What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? […]
How Smart Phones Make You Smarter
by Markham Heid April 10, 2013, 12:05 pm EDT Boost your brainpower with Bejeweled. Spending a few minutes gaming on your phone can make you smarter, finds new research published inPLoS ONE. After 4 weeks of playing phone-based games for an hour a day, 75 people significantly improved their working memory, focus, spatial memory, or multitasking ability, the […]
Twitter and Facebook ‘addicts’ suffer withdrawal symptoms
Facebook and Twitter users suffered withdrawal symptoms when forced to go cold turkey as part of a scientific study into the addictiveness of social media, academics have found. By Matthew Sparkes 1:33PM BST 11 Apr 2013 In a study by researchers at the University of Winchester, ten self-confessed Facebook “addicts” and ten prolific tweeters were asked […]
Afghan Guys And Gals Meet Facebook To Facebook
By Farangis Najibullah April 11, 2013 High-school student Muhammad Akbar has never dated a girl in real life, but he’s got plenty of girlfriends on Facebook. With social and religious taboos restricting face-to-face contact between unrelated members of the opposite sex, Facebook’s popularity has skyrocketed as a virtual meeting place in Afghanistan.Akbar spends nearly an hour […]
How 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 interactive nature. When you misrepresent yourself, you’re bound to receive feedback pointing this out. Twitter streams are like a public journals […]