A recent report stated that social media sites were being urged to not include “Like” buttons on their interface for the reasons of keeping children safe online. The fear is that the Like function on sites like Facebook encourage children to stay online longer. But the question is if everyone should have to obey the same rules on social media to keep everyone safe when the target is just one certain group. Should everyone now follow different rules just to prevent children from being online too long? Is it right to impose the same safe social media rules on everyone? Our Opinion Alex believes a… Read more

Bullying is not anything new. However, with the rise in popularity of social media, it has become much more widespread, as it seems people feel free to just say whatever they want, whether it will hurt someone or not. And sometimes it pushes the limit of hurt and becomes outright cruel. Dubai happens to take online bullying really seriously. A British woman attended the funeral of her ex-husband in Dubai, and her statements on Facebook from a few years prior when he remarried have come into question, when she appeared to wish him dead and called his new wife a “horse.” This is something she… Read more

An important milestone in the world of technology occurred this week. Gmail turned 15. Learning this news, It seems like something we’ve always had at this point, so you really have to think back and remember what life was like before we had Gmail. You were probably using AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, or an email belonging to your own domain or that of your employer. Looking back on your time with Google’s email service, has it changed anything for you? Would your tech life be the same without Gmail? Our Opinion Sayak still remembers the day one of his chat friends offered him his first access… Read more

So many people seem to be focused on cybersecurity and privacy in their computing. Yet time after time, year after year, week after week, we continue to read more and more about data breaches leaking our account info, passwords, financial data, etc. It’s hard to figure out how to keep your information safe. Forbes suggested recently that Facebook’s latest password breach suggests that Internet users see cybersecurity as obsolete. Is this true? Do we not even think it’s possible anymore? Do you think cybersecurity has become obsolete? Our Opinion Sayak believes that cybersecurity is changing a lot from how we first perceived it. “It’s is… Read more

Much of the world was stunned last week with the news of two mosque shootings in New Zealand that took the lives of 50 people. What made it even more disturbing was that the shooter filmed a Facebook Live video throughout his violence and also published his manifesto on Twitter and an anonymous message board. The violence of the situation is something that is definitely unspeakable, but what we are focusing on in this opinion piece is the responsibility of social media with regards to it being the mode to publish the violence. There were many people that watched the video and shared it and… Read more