Tag Archives: Facebook

No Escape- 2

March 4, 2019 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

Oh, goody. If we believe them, our smartphone vendors will no longer be selling our data to folks whose express desire is to violate our privacy.

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Business Management, Technology

We have met the enemy…

March 13, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 4 Comments

We all seem to be worried (OK, that is everyone but TheDonald) that the Russians and the North Koreans have the ability to screw up our elections. To be honest, we should be terrified that they can (and do) create havoc in our civic discourse, by spreading false facts that incite and inflame.

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Brain, Economy, Technology

No bots (or trolls) allowed

March 9, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 13 Comments

So, tell me what would you do. You find out that one of your sites is being populated by someone who is promoting a canard. To denigrate someone else’s point of view, he’s claiming a young person is a trained actor, spewing words he was told to memorize, and doing it badly.

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Don't Index

Who are these strangers?

May 23, 2017 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

While I was publicizing my blog on Facebook yesterday, I was dumbstruck when I saw a note appear. Very short- very unsweet. “it was a pleasure knowing you u were a true inspiration to us all rip Elliot Richard Dorfman you will be missed“.

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Business Management

Change

February 18, 2016 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

Change. We generally don’t like it.

Consider Twitter. Right now, Jack Dorsey has rearranged (OK. replaced) most of the executives in his firm. Of course, Twitter is being blamed for not growing new users. Even though it’s revenue is up- by 48%, I might add.

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Just Because

It’s still BS if you apologize AFTER your bias is proven

January 25, 2016 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

Today is one of my favorite holidays. Yes, we Jews have a slew of holidays. And, given we’ve just survived Snowzilla2016, thinking about this holiday really feels a bit bizarre.

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Business Management, Economy

Charity- begins at home?

December 16, 2015 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 1 Comment

Yesterday, I spoke about the need for us to donate to charity. Many of us do that because we want to help those less advantaged than ourselves, others do so to save money on their taxes. Today, I’ll talk about the what Mark Zuckerberg (and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan) recently announced- after I introduce the Gates/Buffett pledge program.

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Uncategorized

Eat up- quickly!

September 18, 2014 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 5 Comments

I’ll bet you won’t be surprised when I say I send articles to my friends and family. But, you may be surprised to know I send them several times a day. Of course, I am positive it’s information they ABSOLUTELY have to know and have. Well, I did that again last week. But, this time I only sent it to my son, because I knew it could be very important to him.

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Business Management, Just Because

Facebook tweaks

October 10, 2012 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

I know everyone has been talking about the changes on Facebook, but, somehow, I was not subjected to the new Timeline until late in August. And, that’s when I began determining what I needed to do to create some order out of this chaos. It seems to me that this “Timeline” that FB has imposed upon us is as creative and useful as many of those “timelines” I was required to make in second grade.

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