Technology

I’ve been a critic of social media for a long time, probably because I’m old enough to find the mix of personal information and public visibility kind of eerie.

Respect seems a crippled concept in contemporary culture, becoming, in some ways its own antonym.

Google+, the company’s new social networking option, has been rolled out to users gradually, a deliberate approach that contrasts sharply with Google’s Buzz, which appeared to everyone more or less simultaneously and raised numerous privacy alarms.

Eli Pariser first noticed the phenomenon that he calls the “Filter Bubble” when his conservative “friends” began to disappear from his Facebook page.

A change is about to hit the Internet and it involves a basic thing, the addresses we type into our Web browsers to go to specific sites.