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Facebook has had much ... well, face time I guess you’d call it ... in the media this week, mostly to do with privacy (or, more to the point, lack thereof) settings. I am so down with that I’m practically combat crawling. I nearly closed down my Facebook page a few days ago, after a message from a reader that, among other things, criticised me for going to church on Easter (a fact which is mentioned...
More from the mailbag today. In fact, have been positively inboxicated of late. “Do you have a name for pre-boomers in relation to the Digital World?” asks a reader in her 70s. “We are the silent generation, who play on the very edges. We dream one day of being Digital – not exactly Immigrants, but perhaps taking a more in depth tour of that strange place, like living in the South of France...
Must confess am feeling a little like Octomom these days. (Next up: The woman who forced her children to give up their technology!: a real promo for a recent TV segment.) Discussed it with the kids last night, and they agree. We feel like members of a cult. 19-year-old Anni has kept up her Scrabble fetish but now, somewhat disturbingly, plays on Facebook, whipping the sorry asses of partners from...
Doing media for The Winter of Our Disconnect - essentially, a book about not using media – was always going to have the potential for high comedy. From the TV producer who asked me if I had any video clips of the kids not using technology (“Er, the thing is, we were not using technology …” I stammered as politely as I knew how, which isn’t terribly politely), to the young radio presenter who concluded...
Today they say the snake offered Eve a fig or (preposterously) a pomegranate. But I, tempted in the Age of the iPhone, remain brand-loyal.
