Tag: Social Networks

We are messy complex beings; we should have messy, complex digital lives, too

By Adam Tinworth

One of the assumptions that Facebook is built on — that we have single, definable identities — is palpably false. Is this the chink in the digital behemoth armour?
Finding a digital fix for Facebook

By Adam Tinworth

If anything is in need of a digital fix right now, it's Facebook. Can the social network be remade in a more privacy-centric form? Or is the fix actually a replacement?
Hello, Goodbye: making smart decisions about the digital tools we let into our lives

By Adam Tinworth

Digital communities and digital companies are supported by those who chose to use them. If we don't like the digital world we've built, we need to start exercising our consumer choices in smarter ways.
The first cracks in Facebook’s wall

By Adam Tinworth

Facebook has been the unassailable giant in the social networking space. But teenagers are ignoring it - is this the first step in its fall?
Return on shared data: the counter to the cloud Big Brother

By NEXT Conference

The discussion about privacy in cloud services is focusing on the wrong issues, argues official blogger Adelina Peltea
What Instagram got right – and Facebook can learn

By Adam Tinworth

People fear what Facebook could do to Instagram - but what could Instagram do to Facebook?