South Africa is abuzz with tales of "controversial social networking platform" Facebook and the group "Ek laaik nie n houtkop nie sou what".
Ok. So, people, catch a wake up. This is social media. We've taken a soapbox, amplified the volume an...
They are in your Facebook, mining your data ...
The issue of privacy on social networking platforms like Facebook has been discussed at length before, and dismissed by most as merely drivel from paranoid folk. My take on the issue has always been ...
I've promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I've fallen in love with, and I'd love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance -- I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation -- and my a...
I've been fairly cynical of some South African businesses' recent forays into the world of social networking -- specifically Facebook. It's a helluva cluttered environment to play in, with an audience that ranges from 12 to 70, demographics from pink...
Everyone knows that it’s about who you know and not what you know.. Being someone who is heavily involved in the online market, I’m continually dropping tweets, answering friend requests and plugging away at my keyboard on myriad instant messagin...
Although MXit is an exciting development in the South African social media space, it has suffered from a lot of FUD.
As per Wikipedia, FUD is “Fear, uncertainty and doubt: a tactic of rhetoric used in sales, marketing, public relations.” I bel...
After all the noise and excitement which came with the dawn of Social Media, we are now seeing signs of the Web 2.0 slowing and becoming a part of everyday life. Similar to what happened with email, it was a big launch and now it’s everywhere. Ni...
Facebook, bless it, has (dare I say it? ) revolutionised the online world for many people. Parents in particular. In addition to worrying about what their offspring get up to when they're supposed to be at school, en route to and from school, hanging...
Of all the great things the age of social media has ushered in, let’s not be blinded to the emergence of the age old affliction which has plagued humanity ever since Kane took out Abel…Hate.
Hate speech was there ever since people could spea...
Wikipedia's definition of a social-network service is software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.
I have been ob...
