THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES INDEED… Remember a few weeks go when the internet was ceded to the world When Obama said that the United States was done? It was signed over to an international consortium of nations–many of which don’t believe in free speech or true journalism. Starting early this morning, the East Coast started having … Read moreTHE NET HACK ATTACK
If you watched the debate.. you saw this: The new hero of the presidential campaign.. Kenneth Bone and his red sweater.. But since then, the world of red sweaters (and Halloween costumes of him) have become a little more uncomfortable.. Namely because of online sleuths and now mainstream reporters trying to dig into his digital past … Read moreWhen stardom meets the Internet: Ken Boned
People have lost their ability for pensive thought.. private contemplation… personal judgement that stays inside. Instead, with the advent of all things social media, humanity has morphed into a strange array of over judgmental people with a taste for social justice warriors who offer nothing but vitriolic rage about everything.. We opine on every topic … Read moreWhen the best response is no response, people just keep talking
WHEN VIRAL GOES GOOD!! IF you didn’t see Candace Payne, a Dallas mother of two, laugh hysterically while wearing a Chewbacca mask, you should. It should almost be mandatory on a gloomy day. She wasn’t anyone famous.. but literally minutes after posting herself in a car wearing a brand new Chewy mask, her Facebook exploded. It … Read moreVIRAL GONE GOOD!
One of these is me. The other is is Doug Walker, an online movie critics with almost 700,000 followers on YouTube.. I may have found my much more popular doppelgänger.. Perhaps contact should be made? But would works collide? Would the center of gravity give out? By the way the close up is me. The … Read moreOne of these Me’s is not like the other
This Mashable story about a cancer survivor who turned into the butt of a joke should be required reading for every moronic jerk who has the Internet and social media to mock fellow humans with ugly memes.. The butt of this joke doesn’t do meth. Instead he’s a cancer survivor who struggled with his own … Read more‘Meth Curry’ and the thoughtless, casual cruelty of Internet memes
READ THIS FIRST –> ‘Meth Curry’ and the thoughtless, casual cruelty of Internet memes: This Mashable story about a cancer survivor who turned into the butt of a joke should be required reading for every moronic jerk who has the Internet and social media to mock fellow humans with ugly memes.. The butt of this joke … Read more‘Meth Curry’ and the thoughtless, casual cruelty of Internet memes
And this year, a lot of companies got it very very wrong, wishing people a happy new year the day before it happened.. Social media jobs suddenly open at big corporations!? Checking Indeed.com now
Multiple Firings After Racially Charged Facebook Remarks Mocking a Black Child Go Viral » Perhaps there are two lessons learned here. First, Facebook is not private. Even if you think it is.. even if you set it to private.. even if you believe you’re getting away with untoward comments.. you will be seen. And secondly? … Read moreThe internet gives you the freedom to say anything. And for so many people, that is an awful, awful thing
The Washington POST is equally terrified about the APP and what it may do to society .. And now I am , too LAUREN C. WILLIAMS: Silicon Valley’s Newest App Is Likely To Aid Bigots, Destroy Privacy