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Being safe on Facebook.

by Nadya Arnaoot on October 20, 2009

I hear more and more stories these days about folks being burnt by the (bad) privacy default settings on Facebook. As more and more older folks join Facebook, I’m concerned that more and more of the people I care about are going to have embarassing Facebook mishaps– or worse, lose jobs or relationships due [...]

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Evidence of the harassment of women online

by Nadya Arnaoot on September 25, 2007

I’ve been wanting to post more on my ideas about preventing women from being driven offline by harassment. I realized, though, that I should provide some more background information first– I should probably provide evidence that this is a problem before brainstorming on how to solve it.
I went through my delicious bookmarks, and pulled [...]

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Harassment driving women offline

by Nadya Arnaoot on September 13, 2007

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what happened to Kathy Sierra.
If you haven’t heard of her, she is an extremely smart computer trainer, who founded a line of books called the Head First books with a focus on explaining technical topics in a fun, easily absorbed way. She ran an extremely popular tech [...]

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