If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here’s how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down and eliminating your digital past.
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Lord of the Flies is
a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding
about a group of British boys cast-offs on an uninhabited island who try to
govern themselves with disastrous results. Published in 1954 when McCarthyism and the "Red Scare" of the Soviet Union was at its height.
Flash forward almost 60 years to the day, and American are anxious once
again – but this time it’s not the Russians, it’s our own government.
Facebook got attacked, hard and effectively, from two fronts today. Both Twitter and Google announced new features that compete with Facebook’s killer service: photo sharing.
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The Syrian Electronic Army hacked US President Barack Obama’s nonprofit website Organizing for Action last night, sending reverberations throughout the President’s social media presence. The SEA proceeded to hack into the President’s campaign website as well as OFA’s custom URL shortener. It then began posting pro-SEA URL redirects to the President’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, […]
Buffer, an app that lets users schedule and post Facebook, Twitter and Google+ updates, is now back up and running after a two-day hack-and-spam ordeal. Buffer was hacked yesterday, sending out third-party spam to thousands of Buffer users’ Facebook pages. The company has cleaned up the mess for the most part and instituted new security […]
The New York Stock Exchange ran a series of tests this weekend to prepare for Twitter’s impending IPO, which could occur as soon as Nov. 7. The tests were to ensure the NYSE will be ready to handle the high speed and volume of the high-profile IPO. Systems were checked three times in real-time simulations […]
One thing so many users complain about Facebook is its privacy settings – or lack of consistency thereof. The social network’s privacy policy has been changed and updated so many times over the last few years that I’m not sure what parts of my profile I can fully hide or control anymore.
Spotting the humor in the whole situation are the folks behind the Realistic Facebook Security Simulator. The fact that it’s got the word “realistic” in the title means that it’s not.
Basically, you’re tasked with answering a series of questions regarding what you share on the social network, and you have to answer fast because you’ve only got 20 seconds before the timer expires and new privacy settings are rolled out. The questions and answers are sometimes confusing – but maybe they made it that way to test if you’ll still know what should be done if you’re drunk or too sleepy to think clearly.
So what are you waiting for? Check the simulator now and see how well (or how badly) you’ll fare.
[via C|NET]
Whether one has a modest monthly mobile data plan or an unlimited plan with a cap on, for example, 4G speeds, the waste of precious MBs cuts into one’s usage and is unwanted. Users on Windows Phone have been experiencing such extraneous data usage lately, something that results from the integrated Twitter feature, Microsoft has […]
Today, Instagram posted an image of what an ad posting inside its mobile photo-sharing service will look like.
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The BBC will become the first news agency to create content for Twitter’s Amplify service, reported Ad Age. The content will be in the form of short news clips based on trending topics, each clip preceded by a short ad. The videos will be embedded directly into the BBC’s tweets with the hashtag #BBCTrending. The […]
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