As I talked about yesterday, there is some debate about whether or not Quit Facebook Day was a success or not. My take is, yes, if and only because it raised people’s awareness about privacy issues—Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness—Rob Cottingham doesn’t feel that it was because of [...]
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Didn’t Quit Facebook Poll: People do care about privacy
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Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness
Yesterday was Quit Facebook Day (QFD) and according to reports about 30,000 people closed their accounts yesterday which is leading people to call it a failure—‘Quit Facebook’ protest day flops – Telegraph, but that is an entirely over simplistic view of what was trying to be accomplished. I knew this would probably happen (no legion [...]
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The site formerly known as A View from the Isle
Fine, I give I’m changing the name of the site. I know that I don’t live on an island anymore. I used to, really: Salt Spring Island 2000-2005 Pender Island 2005-2006 Vancouver Island (Victoria) 2006-2008 I moved to Vancouver in the summer of 2008, but I kept the name of the site as is. No, [...]
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