Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Whenever somebody comes up with a new business idea involving social media it’s usually time to cover your private parts. To the extent that you can. Take this idea from Hong Kong-based microlending startup Lenddo as described in this article in The Observer. [Lendo] calls itself “the first credit scoring service that uses your online social network to [...]

Tryin to ruin my name Threw me under the bus Riding all over the town Spreading rumors around Threw me under the bus From Under the Bus by Lolene In my previous post I explained why I left Facebook. Doing so freed up enough time to actually do another bl0g entry so it’s only apropos [...]

Speak my friend, you look surprised I thought you knew I’d come disguised On angel wings, dressed in white From Descent of the Archangel by Kamelot Last week I finally had enough. The cumulative effect of every sleazy privacy invading stunt that Mssrs. Zuckerberg et al have pulled was definitely part of the motivation. Also [...]

It’s good to know you’re thought of, it’s good someone should care It’s good to know you’re trusted but not to know they’re there Too late to shut your curtains they’ve caught you unaware They’re not at your window man, they’re sitting in your chair From Privacy Invasion by Exploited I have attempted on numerous [...]

You keep on stalking me Invading my privacy Won’t you just let me be? From Privacy by Michael Jackson So now that everyone and their mother are on FaceBook it’s just swell how social we are. Keeping track of family and friends has never been easier. And how about those cute games? And that nice [...]

don’t say a word or we’ll surely expose that it’s you who are wicked and vile anything you say will be used against you and now it is you here on trial from Don’t Say a Word by Cici Porter For a long time now I’ve tried to get folks to realize that there is [...]

Everybody knows that social networking sites are notorious for their ill-advised exhibitionism. Folks who are reasonably demure and respectable in person get their freak on when it comes to FaceBook or MySpace. Yep, insert an internet connection between them and the world and the gloves come off. Or rather only the gloves stay on. I’ve [...]

Information security for  everyone is a big deal with me. I even have a weblog devoted to that very ideal. So Julie Seedorf’s Something About Nothing article, “Be careful of what you store on computers” definitely resonated with me. I read an article from PC Magazine recently. It was titled “Day in the Life of [...]