My mother, God bless my mother because I love her to death, but people, she still pays bills by driving to the local drug store. I can’t understand it. I try to tell her, “Ma we can do this online”, but she refuses. She worries so much about her identity being taken. Now the funny thing is she has a Facebook account which I don’t understand. Privacy is a major concern for most reluctant social media users and users like my mother have every right to be concerned. Social media

Opps I did it again. No, I’m not signing the catchy lyrics of Brittaney Spears. I’m talking about leaving my laptop in the seat pocket of the seat in front of me on an airplane. I usually fly around 160 flight segments a year. During this time, I pull out my laptop and work on school assignments, prep for my next work assignment, complete invoices, plan travel, and more. Airplanes have been a great office for me since starting this doctorate program. I have been able to use t

Dennen and Burner (2017) explored very interesting concepts around Facebook usage in higher education. They explored social identities, context collapse and the issues with social media presence and privacy. They found that 94% of the 159 students surveyed used Facebook for their personal lives. However, Facebook usage for school and work dropped drastically to 38% and 9% respectively (Dennen & Burner, 2017). This data shows that there may be a culture that suggest a user’s o

We all have done it before. We all have that one horror story about an assignment we actually worked on. We spent extensive hours working to complete it before the submission deadline and something goes wrong. The wheel of death freezes your computer, the black screen of death takes over your HP, or the ghost delete rapidly begins deleting all your work and then auto-saves at the end of its slow destruction of your educational life. We all know the feeling. The feeling of dis