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Showing posts with label social-media. Show all posts
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Friday, 20 January 2017

President Zuckerberg

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A Vanity Fair piece by Nick Bilton asks, Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Our Next President? According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines , the ...
Monday, 21 December 2015

Star Wars, Social Media, and Hiding the Shiny Thing

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I went to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Saturday. It was great fun. The last time a Star Wars movie lived up to my expectations, ...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Unfunny jokes

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Dear Facebook friend, Yesterday, you "liked" an anti-immigrant joke on Facebook. The punch line was: You're British mate,...
Thursday, 25 June 2015

Death and Facebook: Now with extra creepiness

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Somewhere in the Facebook servers, an algorithm "pushes" anniversary reminders of your posts. Today, it pushed a photo of my cat D...
Monday, 23 February 2015

Nut Meets Sledgehammer: Follow-up

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My recent post Nut Meets Sledgehammer looked at the case of Ross Loraine, a resident of Sunderland who was cautioned by police for an offen...
Friday, 6 February 2015

Nut Meets Sledgehammer

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Last month, a 19-year-old resident of Sunderland was cautioned by the police for making an offensive remark on Twitter. How can this possibl...
Monday, 7 July 2014

Death and Facebook

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"There were things to suggest to a thinking man that the Creator of mankind had a very oblique sense of fun indeed, and to breed in h...
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