You might think that running a big country such as the United States would be hard and definitely at least a full time job: Well no, it isn’t. At least not when considering how many posts President Trump shares on social media. And not only at odd hours (and outside office hours – if there […]
Tag: social media
The Hassles of 2FA and MFA
Sure, cybercrime is all pervasive nowadays and with ever more of us increasingly interacting with the world digitally security is paramount. So we all are used to Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) as far as for example and probably most importantly our online banking is concerned. And don’t get me wrong: Of course […]
Swiss Youth Earnings: Expectations vs. Reality
A recent (non representative) street survey in Switzerland by a Swiss media group showed that kids expect to earn CHF 20’000 (that’s nearly $24‘000) or more a month in a country where the average monthly salary stands at roughly CHF 7‘000. Clearly there is a wide gap between expectations and what these young adults ultimately […]
Influencers
When I was young, which admittedly is a very long time ago, boys wanted to be policemen, train drivers or pilots, and girls wanted to be nurses and hairdressers. How things have changed! Nowadays young folk want to be social media creators, YouTubers or influencers. According to a U.S. survey, 53% of Gen Zs (that’s […]
Fear of eating out
There can be no doubt that the cost of living crisis is taking its toll: but while we all are more cost conscious, personally I wasn’t prepared for what a study by the British restaurant chain Prezzo found: 86% Gen Z (that’s people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2010s) encounters “menu anxiety,” a […]
The power of social media
According to a 2022 survey from the Pew Research Centre, Americans under 30 are about as likely to trust information on social media as they are to trust national news organisations. More recently Pew found that 32% of those aged 18-29 get their news from TikTok. Social-media sites are rife with conspiracy theories, and research […]
Beware of doxers!
Doxing, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, is ‘the action of finding or publishing private information about someone on the internet without their permission’, information which all too often then ends up for sale on the darknet. Many areas of our daily lives have been digitalised in recent years, and with this comes an increasing awareness […]
Shackled democracy – social media
After the events of January 6 in Washington and President Trump‘s half-hearted disavowal of the violence it was only a question of time until Twitter, Facebook and all the other social media sites would take action. And rightly so, although I will miss Ex-President Trump‘s tweets, not for their insightful nature but for their entertainment […]
The grumpy older man 