Category Archives: Social Trends

Technology, social media and You

Forecasting – to rule the World?

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nsaemailIn past posts I have touched on the use of data, personal and otherwise, by the conglomerates which collect all they can, not so much for spying on us, we leave that to NSA and government authorized departments, but for the purpose, it is claimed, of providing a better service to you. So the more they get to know about us all who use internet for any reason, be it communication, shopping, reading, listening to music, viewing movies or videos, the more all this data become an important resource for yet more purposes.

One of the dangerous ones is
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Social Media changes we can expect to see this year

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like us on FJust as our horizons for computers and tablets have been stretched during the past year with the changing technology trends, you can expect to see changes for Social Media.

The implications for our members interested in easy ways to keeping the finger on the pulse is

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To be or not to be –

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a member of Facebook or Twitter, that is the question.

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Social Media is much more than fashion phenomena in our time. You may remember that Twitter in particular was an essential part of the Arab spring, and has been so in other social and political developments in these past few years.

Facebook has got millions of users around the world, a fact that hasn’t gone unnoticed. The new media is used in unbelievably

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The Art of Conversation

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So you think that the art of conversation is dead and you blame it on the invention of emailing and the advent of SMS texting?

letter_writingWell, not really, what they killed was not so much the art of conversation as the art of writing a letter. When did you last receive a nice letter written on nice paper in a nice hand? I don’t know if they even teach children to write decent letters anymore, and I assume that no one actually cares.

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