The “Merging” of Facebook’s Messaging Aps

The announcement this week that Messenger, Instagram, WhatsAp, and other Facebook-owned tools makes me question serious use of any of these. Facebook makes money selling user data and advertising, and they haven’t got a good record when it comes to user privacy....

Apple Confirms FaceTime Bug

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/apple-facetime-bug-lets-you-hear-iphone-mac-audio-before-the-call-is-connected Update: Apple has disabled FaceTime Groups on its end, listing Group Facetime as “temporarily unavailable” on its support page. This serves as a...

Privacy – whatever.

Privacy. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc… all tell us how much they value and care about our privacy. Yet the truth is revealed in an endless serried of breaches, hacks, and outright lies presented to us. The end results are nearly always the...

Predictive Social Media

Based on the study summarized in the article link below, patterns in language and thought can predict and even anticipate what someone might post to others based on analysis of past language, connections, and behavior patterns. This will, no doubt, be used by anyone...