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How Companies Learn Your Secrets: NY Times →
justbeingseriouslysocial: safranx: Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you need, and which coupons are most likely to make you happy. Target, for example, has figured out how to data-mine its way into your womb, to figure out whether you...
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“The Internet is one of several social domains in which an individual can live...”
– McKenna and Bargh, “Plan 9 from Cyberspace,” Living in the Info Age, p.202 Prior to 2000, most social scientists argue that technologies such as the internet are merely one part of our social systems and our lives. Actually, shaping is a mutual process: We shape technology, and technology shapes...
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“Instagram is not going away.”
– Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram (a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends through a series of photos.) The Instagram app will still be the same one you know and love. You’ll still have all the same people you follow and that follow you.You’ll still be able to share to...
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