Another alarm has sounded that our smartphones are not simply innovative devices meant to improve our lives, but instead are little tools that have been intentionally designed to keep us focused on our screens. Globe and Mail journalist Eric Andrew-Gee says, “The evidence is there, cold and hard, in a growing body of research by…
What parents need to know – although we do not endorse the suggested age for beginners, nor feel it is necessarily a good social media training platform, this site does provide good warnings and reminders for parents. Be aware that there is no such thing as privacy on the web! And there is the ever…
Another former executive at Facebook expressed similar thoughts. “I feel tremendous guilt,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth at Facebook, in a public talk in November. “I think we all knew in the back of our minds…something bad could happen. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society…
Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gives an insider’s look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains. “The thought process that went into building these applications… was all about: ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” He admitted that the social media platform…
Living as a stranger here below, journeying to a city that has foundations – and then, at the same time, on YouTube and Snapchat… Can the two go together? The greatest walking event in the Netherlands will commence in one and a half months, when 50,000 people will walk in and around Nijmegen for four…
Mr. Tim Challies in his blog writes: ‘They are as comfortable with iPods as I am with a paperback. They have only ever known a world where almost all of us have cell phones with us at all times, where Facebook is a teenager’s rite-of-passage, where every home has five or ten or twenty devices…
Instagram has recently gained much popularity, even among our young people. This app allows the user to take a quick picture or video to share a moment of someone’s life. The file can then be shared privately or publicly on the app, as well as through a variety of other social media platforms such as…