Time management instead of time trap

Social networks – they don’t always necessarily cost your job, but definitely a lot of time. We are active on the net and chat, write, post, read, inform, comment, like, tweet, pin and whatever else there is. And in addition to contacts, creativity, and a certain desire to communicate you definitely need sufficient time in order to manage and maintain all your presences on the web.

For some of us time is a scarce resource and, therefore, precious. The best solution would be time management, because time is one of the few resources that cannot be recovered. Thus, you should also establish a strategy for your network activities to sort tasks by importance and urgency so that networking won’t become a time trap and you won’t get bogged down in all those different networks and profiles. Continue reading Time management instead of time trap

The digital inheritance is waiting

Hardly anybody likes to deal with the issue “death”.  Often one puts off making a will for as long as possible. By now there is a classical will for your digital inheritance. At least online we can live forever nowadays because the Internet hardly – or very, very slowly – forgets anything.

In our digital world we no longer just pass on money or houses but also data, accounts, and online activities. This can be quite expensive because most of the online registrations are liable to costs and are not automatically terminated with the death of the user. The heirs are obliged to take care of the digital inheritance. During their (online) life most Internet users give very little thought to what should be done with their digital inheritance after their death. Continue reading The digital inheritance is waiting

Personal Profiles via Facebook’s Like Button

Should even more caution be exercised when using the Like button on Facebook? By studying about 58,000 Facebook users in the U.S. British researchers found out that based on the “Like” data the characteristics of Facebook users can be determined quite accurately. Does this research now show that we are not that far away from being transparent humans? At least on the Internet?

Especially with the help of Facebook’s „Like“ button we (voluntarily) reveal quite a lot about our preferences and personality. With a mathematical model serving as basis for this study the “Likes” of images, status notices, or other websites were used to create a quite accurate personal profile. The Facebook data permit conclusions to the personality of the user with a precision of up to 95%.

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