Are stars humans? Do they have private lives? Imagine if everytime you attempted to go to the store, buy a coffeee or eat with friends and family they took pictures and asked for autographs? Sounds tough. But now let’s take it to the next step. Imagine if someone was broadcasting, not just to their friend…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
How a Facebook status invoked violence
In a BBC News article from October 17th I found the following… then the commentary A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his wife to death over a posting she made on the social networking site Facebook. We first send thoughts to the family affected by this. Physical voilence stemming from comments, postings…
Hiding Yourself from Stalking with Private Numbers
One of the ways, we as humans, like to communicate is still the telephone. In the world of social networking, who knows the reality of who the other person is on the other side of your conversations is. That is until you have met them in real life. So how do we get to that…
Where Is Your Username Registered – reversed into a stalking tool
While we were recording Episode 9 of TheSocialGeeks podcast, one of the sites mentioned was UserNameCheck.com , a cool utility. It basically runs through almost 70 social sites (last time I counted) and verifies if your desired username is available. From there you could pick a new name that was open everywhere or go add…
