Facebook has done it again. Imposed new technology without asking you. This time it’s software which automatically identifies faces in your photographs starting with all your “friends”. And you can only untag them after they have been published online. Another example of reducing your privacy by default but that’s par for the course for Zuckerberg. He [...]
When you first sit down to write a blog you hope people are going to want to read it – unless you plan it as a private journal where you can unburden yourself or have a rant at the world (OK so occasionally I have a rant too). So it’s great for me that so [...]
Why are mobile phone conversations so irritating? I can’t be the only person to have asked people in quiet carriages in trains to stop making calls or to speak more quietly on a metro train. I understand that people speak more loudly into a mobile phone than a land line because of the way a [...]
Over the years I have experienced some poor customer service – and not all of it in the former soviet republics (“service without a smile”). Some of the best has been in the USA – and not the “have a good day” or “missing you already” stuff, but the fact that even in a basic [...]
“Quit Facebook Day” has been and gone and I’m not sure of the impact (not much as Facebook reached its 500 millionth member on 21 July 2010) but there is increasing unrest among the citizens. Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times had a pop at them; “Facebook’s friendship trap”, covering much the same ground as [...]
“Living together apart” seems to be a popular choice these days, whether to maximise benefits payments or so you can have breathing space to do your own thing. But I wonder how far apart you can actually get with text messaging, skyping, not to mention tweeting and face-book! So what are the reasons people can’t [...]
