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A very recent and disturbing article from Reuters claims that Meta, the mother company that owns Facebook, projected (implying awareness) 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from publishing scammers ads. The social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Meta internally projected late last year that […]

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I’ve read an interesting article that was published by Graphite – a company specializing in SEO (search engine optimization), content strategy, and AI-driven marketing. Their research aim was to find out the percentage of content generated by AI. For that, they analyzed 65,000 English-language URLs from the archives of Common Crawl (a nonprofit organization that […]

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Using Morsc code over the telegraph If you dig into the past, social media has been around way before Facebook and X, in a simpler form but still allowing remote communication between people. It may have started with the 18th century telegraph invented by Henry, which at first just rang a bell at the other […]

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The time I spend on social media has been steadily declining. It’s hard to ignore the growing awareness that these platforms are allegedly engineered to amplify controversy and boost engagement, often by exposing people to opposing views in ways that provoke emotional reactions. This kind of engagement translates directly into profit, simply by keeping users […]

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I did not write in this blog for quite a while, but when I did feel the urge to write, I was wondering what’s my motivation? a way to express myself? trying to connect with the outside world? How is it that I’m hardly writing on Facebook, but yet I write posts about pepper sauce, […]

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