I wrote this as an Op-Ed for the last progression of University Writing. Posted here to share. A recent study found that 87% of US undergraduates are on Facebook for an average of 93 minutes daily. At 11 hours a week that’s nearly as long as many of us spend in class. If 12 hours [...]
I suffer, as I’m sure many internet overusers do, with a bit of ADD. When browsing the internet I’ll often stumble across articles in the 2000-10,000 word range. They’re interesting, but they’re not what I need now. In the past I’d tend to leave them open in a tab for a few days or weeks, maybe [...]
The ever clever DrJonboyG linked to this article about Facebook being too large to adequately handle dispute. Luckily I haven’t had to deal with that part of the service. However like all their users I’ve had to deal with them, and other services, viewing user privacy and security as a tertiary, at best, concern. It [...]