Recently, a teenager reminded me how intimidating it can be when you’re trying to change things, but are acutely aware of being “just a teenager.” It’s been a looooong time since I ever felt that way, of course, but as I listened to his story, I felt some of the anxiety he was experiencing. “Kenny”…
Category: Online
What The Alleged Facebook Stalker Teaches Us About Our Online Privacy
Kalev Leetaru writes: Earlier this week the story broke that an employee of Facebook’s security team may have used his privileged access to Facebook user data to stalk women online and he was apparently not the first. The company immediately fired the individual when the incident was brought to its attention over Twitter and issued…
Do you have a Twitter account? If so, reset your password now
From Twitter, May 3, posted by Paraga: When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it. We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication…
I told him to stay off Facebook, but no….
So pretty much all of my regular readers know I detest Facebook and have never had a Facebook account. Recently though, my husband decided to get on Facebook to participate in a closed group affiliated with the dog shelter where he volunteers as a dog-walker. It will come as no surprise to those who know…