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A little while ago, the New York Times ran a piece where they discussed the ‘Sticky-factor’ of Facebook. Effectively the article boiled down to the fact that it’s a nightmare to exit the Facebook ecosystem - actually removing your data from their ecosystem borders on being a Sisyphysian task. The most poignant part of the […]

This is a short post, but gives three definitive examples of why we need to develop and instill norms in youth concerning how to use digital resources.
Let’s help this hottie find her camera!
Here’s the story (remember that…story).
In Britain a young woman (unfortunately) lost her camera. Some delightful chap decided that, rather than keeping the […]

In this post I want to consider privacy from a bit of a ‘weird’ point of view: What information do you want students to reveal to each other and yourself, and what do you want to reveal to them? What ethical responsibilities do educators have to their students concerning their disclosure of information to one […]

For the past couple of months I’ve been thinking about a post Sean Yo made about Facebook. The post was entitled Facebook and the Man, and looked at how law enforcement uses Facebook to preemptively dissuade illegal activities. In light of these ‘positive’ uses Yo questions whether or not the city of Toronto was justified […]