The recent excitement concerning Cambridge Analytica’s abuse of 80 million Facebook users’ data reminded me to delete my Facebook account a few weeks back. It’s not the first time I’ve closed my account – the last time was back in 2010 when Facebook were found to be unhelpful and under-resourced for assisting police track down… Read More
Social Networks' double-edged sword
The other day, one of our kids asked if they could have a Facebook account. “But everyone else has got one and they keep asking me to join!”, was the response to my inevitable answer. Kids are different from employees (or are they?), but the naivety with which many use social networking sites makes the… Read More