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Facebook’s Frictionless Sharing Is Bad For You

1. February 2012

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The term “slippery slope” gets thrown around a lot these days, but I feel that I’ve finally found a situation where it can be justly used. Facebook’s increasingly automatic sharing of users content is a troublingĀ developmentĀ for social media, and for more than the fact that you can now see just how many times your significant […]

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Spambots Are Getting Meaner Everyday.

26. January 2012

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I know I will probably come off as an old timer when I say this, but spambots used to be better back in the day. It used to be that you would get spammed by Nigerian princes in need of a loan, or by multi-colored eggs offering instant solutions for losing weight, but these days […]

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