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What Type of Social Networking Personality Are You?

What Type of Social Networking Personality Are You?

If you’re a social networking aficionado like me, you can probably group your friends into categories based on their online behaviour. There’s the political activist. The guy who thinks #Facebook is #Twitter. The animal lover. The diehard sports fan. The foodie. The list goes on and on. Recently, MyLife.com, a website that helps more than […]

Facebook Graph Search

In January 2013, Facebook first rolled out its new Graph Search feature. For the users who signed up for the beta run Facebook was transformed into their own personal search engine. You could suddenly pinpoint all of your friends who checked in at a certain location, was tagged in a photo with a another friend […]

When Twitter Bites Back

When Twitter Bites Back

Remembering that your employees could read your twitter or Facebook posts is the first step to controlling your digital identity. News stories like “Rio policeman loses job after tweet”  or “Indie developer releases game critical of his workplace, loses job”  have become just another element in the modern work place. While personal twitters are watched […]

The Illusion of Anonymity

Personal klout or branding can be derived from sharing your information and options online while attaching this information to your identity. While many people share aspects of their real life, others flourish in what they believe to be anonymity.  These people often want to be under surveillance as long as their anonymous internet identities can not be tied back to their actual ones. Enter contemporary philosopher and media expert, […]

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Digital Identity Resolutions for 2013

  by  mister.johnson  Welcome to January 2013! As per tradition people around the world are celebrating the dawn of a new year by resolving to improve on the habits of the year before. In place of resolving to do a hundred sit ups a day (or in addition to), how about resolving to take control of your […]