Almost two years ago, I received the kind of email that everyone dreads: a contrite semi-apology from a frequently-used platform notifying me that it had been hacked and my email address and password had been stolen.
Cue panic, an immediate and hasty password change (to something convoluted under the misapprehension that if I couldn’t guess it, no hacker could), followed by a more level-headed click of haveibeenpwned to face the scale of the problem.
The news wasn’t good. The email wasn’t the only data breach I had suffered, just the only one I had been notified about. …
I’m expecting my #7daysunhappy badge any day now…
It started when the #100happydays hashtag started infiltrating photos on my Instagram feed. I finally looked up this happiness shenanigans to find out what it was about.
It seems that the concept was launched by Dmitri Golubnichy last year, firstly to promote and maintain his own happiness and latterly to spread his happy gospel to the world — via a 100 happiness challenge, asking people to log a photo of what made them happy every day for a 100 days . The thing about calling this a…
Managing and loathing Social Media in equal measure
I distinctly remember the first time I saw Facebook. There had been whispers about an intern working in my department. He was constantly checking this blue and white forum — my colleagues ruled it out as some uni fad. But then, like millions of others, I was drawn in. That was 2006 in the UK so I was a relatively early adopter. In fact, that experience possibly altered my career path forever. I now manage countless social accounts for businesses for a living and Facebook still brings in the greatest traffic and revenue. …
Opinion, the internet, responsibility and group identity
I have read a recent piece by Jen Caron with great intent after many readers found its content risible. Please read it in its entirety and form your own opinion.
I feel that this is another in a long line of examples of the power of a single voice and mistimed comment to enrage the internet and turn many seemingly right-thinking people into embittered trolls.
The gist of the piece is that the writer, a seasoned yoga practitioner, comes across a new recruit next to her in class. The new girl seems to find the class difficult and sits through…
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