Ten Tech Blunders To Avoid In The New Year

The Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog has a fun article on the WJS website titled Tech Blunders To Avoid in 2013. The author, Theresa Poletti, offers a combination of fun insights and tech etiquette tips. She notes that our society has gone from the personal era of the personal computer to what futurist Paul Saffo recently described as the “intimate” era of smartphones and 24/7/365 connectability  – an era that allows us to carry access to the internet in our pockets and share every little detail of our lives with others whenever we are inspired to do so. And she humorously describes all the photos of food that people post online as “Food Porn,” insists that people don’t need to share their location or their tastes in music with the entire online universe and that we should all remember that if we want information kept private we should not post it on our Facebook or Twitter accounts (Just ask Randi Zuckerberg about that one!).

Here’s the link to the article:

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-12-20/commentary/35923435_1_social-media-etiquette-photos

And just FYI should you have missed the online flap during the busy holiday season Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, posted a photo of her family during a holiday gathering on Facebook with the intent that it should just go to her friends but she didn’t quite get the Facebook settings just right and one of her sister’s friends shared the photo with thousands of other people and it was then shared by more people and more people and…you get the idea! And Randi Zucerkberg wasn’t pleased to say the least! Here’s a link to a Gizmodo article on that subject (which just goes to show the common sense rule of thumb is that you don’t share anything online, and I do mean anything, that you don’t want everyone else in the universe to see):

http://gizmodo.com/5971918/watch-randi-zuckerberg-have-a-facebook-freakout-over-her-photo-going-viral

Have a great day!

Linda R.

References

Biddle, Sam. (2012. December 28). Watch Randi Zuckerberg Have a Facebook Freakout Over Her Photo Going Viral. Gizmondo. Online.

Poletti, Theresa. (2012. December 20.) 10 Tech Blunders to Avoid in 2013. Wall Street Journal: Market Watch. Online.