Facebook responds to the market? Who would have
believed it? Should my students delete and reinstall their existing
(free) Apps?
Now share
selective Facebook information with applications
Nowadays, most of the applications we use have an
option to either fill all details manually to resister on that
particular app or just "Log in with Facebook" and all the
required information will be transferred automatically. Now most of
us lazy heads go for the latter option but rarely do we notice that
the app has access to information that we might not want to share.
Last year Facebook proposed a fix to this problem
in the F8 conference in San Francisco and following that developers
were given one year to make the necessary changes in their
application. Now that the one year is complete Facebook has
automatically updated its protocol. Now you will have the liberty to
share information on a need to know basis which also can be moderated
by the user. The user can allow specific information like birthday
and residence to be shared but at the same time they can restrict
from sharing other details like friend list.
Not every app has updated according to the new
protocol so the apps can get buggy but Simon Cross, a Facebook
product manager, says that such cases are highly unlikely. According
to a report from Recode, the apps that gained information before the
new privacy settings were in place, will still hold the shared data.
To get that back or to get it deleted the
user will have to directly talk to the developers of that specific
app.
“Sticks & stones may break my bones, but
Apps can really hut me?” Anonymity protects those who speak truth
to power. Unfortunately, anonymity is also a place where cowards
hide.
Anonymous
Messaging Apps on Campus
Once again, students' technology usage is
prompting panic. This time, the scare involves anonymous messaging
apps.
This past week alone, the following headlines
crossed my desk: "Do
your kids Yik Yak? Time for a chat." "The
Folly of Banning Yik Yak on School Campuses." "A
New Faculty Challenge: Fending Off Abuse on Yik Yak."
"Investigating
the Yik Yak Attack." "If
Yik Yak is the problem, education is the answer, say local school
boards." "Student
Government Poses Yik Yak Resolution."
… Yik Yak is just one of several anonymous
messaging apps (available for free on iOS and Android). … Yik
Yak is made for and marketed specifically to university students.
Yik Yak allows users to anonymously read and write "Yaks"
within a ten mile radius.
Because of that geographical limitation, Yik Yak purports to be more
a more local and "intimate" messaging board.
Much of the concern about Yik Yak involves the
ongoing fears of technology as a vehicle for cyberbullying, along
with assumptions that anonymity serves to encourage this sort of
abusive behavior. Yik Yak has also been used to make bomb
threats and shooting threats.
A very simple RSS reader replacement.
Alltop
You can think of Alltop as the “online magazine
rack” of the web. We’ve subscribed to thousands of sources to
provide “aggregation without aggravation.” To be clear, Alltop
pages are starting points—they are not destinations per se.
Ultimately, our goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying
stories from sources that you’re already visiting plus helping you
discover sources that you didn’t know existed.
For my gamer students.
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