Social Networks
Rethinking News Distribution: Lessons from Metaâs Block in Canada
A year after Meta implemented a news-sharing blockade on its platform, how is media consumption in Canada faring?
Privacy
Accidentally Returning To Facebook
A few months ago I closed my Facebook account. After accidentally returning to Facebook, what I found was shocking. Here is how it all happened and what I found. When I closed my Facebook account, I chose to keep Messenger active in order to be able to stay in touch with a few of my⌠Continue Readin
Apple
While Apple Is Protecting Our Privacy, Facebook Is Selling Our Data
Some controversy this week because Apple is accused of anti-competitive measures. Apple decided to remove non compliant applications from the App Store which were depending on MDM to implement screen time like features. Something that is seen as Apple using his dominant position with its App Store.
Privacy
My Opinion on Covering Webcams
Iâll make it short: for me, covering the webcam on a laptop is a consequence of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and I find it stupid. Period. And this story of the NewYork Times (a newspaper where their credibility is going down every day) proves my point. John Gruber has an interesting article on
Privacy
Feeling Happier After Leaving Facebook?
Following this article on the Washington Post âDeactivating Facebook leaves people less informed but happierâ: In the latest study measuring the effects of social media on a personâs life, researchers at New York University and Stanford University found that deactivating Facebook for just four weeks
Technology
2009 vs 2019
No, you wonât see two pictures of me ten years apart. No, but think about it. Suddenly, within a few days, or even hours, people started to share those pictures of them taken in 2009 and now. For no apparent reasons. On Twitter. On Facebook. This is what I thought. The, I read this Wired⌠Continue R
Blog
My Final Post On Facebook
To all my Facebook friends, I have some news for you but before, I want to give you some context. Itâs been a long time since I made my entry on Facebook. I did not count the years. Over time, I have been more or less active. I poured in a part of my life,⌠Continue Reading â [https://numericcitizen
Technology
Reasons To Quit Facebook
Following my reading of Wired article âWHY SHOULD ANYONE BELIEVE FACEBOOK ANYMORE?â I had even more reasons to quit Facebook. In a word, the motivation of Facebook is not what they said or what they say. They lied.
Technology
On What Facebook Knows About You â Way Too Much
That is no surprise but Facebook collect a lot of data. Want to know what exactly? Have a look at this article. I like the last paragraph: The bottom line: Facebookâs privacy policies reinforce the message that âyou have control over who sees what you share on Facebook.â But if you use Facebook at a
Technology
I Donât Trust Android And Facebook
Here is an article about apps on Android using user data without userâs consent. All they have in common is this: they are running on Android and are using Facebook SDK. Iâm not using Android anytime soon and will leave Facebook soon. đ P.S. I know that apps could leak user info on iOS tooâŚ. Contin
Thinking
This is a Story of Two Guys Who Met in a BarâŚ
âŚeventually they left like everybody else and nobody would go there and then the bar would close. This is a story of many popular bars. They come, they go. Social places have their own life and their own death for one reason or another. Facebook, is social place that eventually will become a thing o
Thinking
LOL â Another Way of Saying No to Facebook
What a wonderful way of saying no to a job at Facebook.