Facebook keeps sending me messages encouraging me to spend money with them to boost my posts so I get more likes. I get it. Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing he is most proud of in his life, Facebook is in the business […]
What I Learned During The Facebook And Instagram Outage
A funny thing happened during the Facebook, Instagram and What’s App outage this week. We all survived. The world kept spinning. Nobody died because of it – at least not that we know of and Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for world domination was met with the harsh, cruel reality that his social kingdom was not necessary […]
The One Thing I Still Like About Facebook
Facebook lost its allure for me a long time ago. The 2016 Election turned it into a political cesspool, revealing sides of people I would rather not have seen. I didn’t really need the Cambridge Analytica reveal to convince me that fake news was often spread by fake accounts and bots pretending to be a […]
Why Quitting Facebook Will Not Fix The Real Issue
The biggest news in my Facebook feed this week is Facebook. Everyone is up in arms at the discovery that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from Facebook that apparently was then used to deliberately attempt to sway the 2016 Election. People are genuinely startled that (a) Facebook is using their data and (b) data mining has […]
When The New Normal Becomes The New Numbness
Since Tuesday I’ve been experiencing something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around. It’s unusual for me, an emotional Scorpio of Greek heritage known to cry at a Hallmark commercial, who would not ride the subway for months after 9/11 to react in such a manner, but since I heard the news of this […]
What You Need To Know About Privacy In A Digital World
In high school my girlfriends and I had a rule. We never used the last names of people we might be talking about when in public. Our theory was that we never knew who was sitting behind us in the booth at the diner. While we were sipping our sodas and dishing that day’s dirt our […]
