Tag: facebook

Facebook apologises for crackdown on drag queens and LGBT community

October 2, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

The community of “drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community” can now rest easy after Facebook promised to improve its system for verifying accounts flagged as “fake” by other users. The social media firm also apologised for what many perceived to be an unwarranted…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Why ‘Facebook-killer’ #Ello is not the Next Big Thing

September 30, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

A new “anti-Facebook” social networking site has been making waves lately with some tech pundits going as far as asserting that it is going to be the “Facebook killer”. Billed, “the second coming of Facebook”, Ello.co pitches among its supposed key differentiating features its being ad-free and a network that allows its users to name…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

We are all still waiting for technology to make our lives better

September 17, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

You gotta give credit to those who cheer on the inroads technology is relentlessly making into people’s personal lives. Technology, they say, is “making lives better” by “empowering” ordinary people to take greater “control over their lives”. The nebulous banter seems to resonate with consumers who remain wide-eyed in anticipation for the coming of the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

Why do we like circulating photos of dead victims of violent crime?

September 7, 2014 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

Nobody will disagree that there are a lot of heinous crimes being perpetrated today, and a lot of it is going unpunished. Recently I saw a photo of the latest murder-rape victim making the rounds on Facebook. The photo depicted what the poster claimed to be “Sarah”, a 14-15 year old girl who was allegedly…

Crime, Media, Society

Which comes first, the ‘nice’ or the Louis Vuitton?

August 26, 2014 Kate Natividad 7 Comments

A friend and I were recently looking through our Facebook timelines and having a laugh. The flood of ALS ice water bucket videos (which, frankly, I find a bit tiring), merited only a few pained chuckles. But what really got us guffawing was a photo shared by a distant acquaintance of ours. In the photo,…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Facebook users’ emotions controlled by manipulating newsfeed content

June 29, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

The future of media: will it create a stronger society? Think again

May 6, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Is the trend in social media really moving towards building stronger networks? Or is it really just weakening them? If we look back at the last several years from the dawn of the “social networking” revolution in the early- to mid-2000s, we will find an interesting trend: social networking models have gone from being defined…

Development, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

One More Term For Pnoy and Other Examples Of Blatant Ignorance

April 12, 2014April 12, 2014 Gogs 42 Comments

Shrek: [observing a giant building] That must be Lord Farquaad’s castle… Do you think he’s maybe compensating for something? If anything pushes my hot buttons enough to make me interrupt my days of meth consumption it is the spreading of ignorance by Pinoys online. The only reason you spread ignorance is because you…

Culture, Government, Society