Unlike Us

MENU
  • Home
  • About
  • Past events
    • #1 Limassol
      • program
      • bios
      • practical info
    • #2 Amsterdam
      • Program
      • Biographies
      • Conference Reports
      • Press
      • Videos
      • Timetable
      • Venue
      • practical Info
    • #3 Amsterdam
      • Conference reports
      • Program
      • Practical info
      • Venue
      • Timetable
      • Unlike Us Reader: a collection of essays on social media monopolies and their alternatives
      • Biographies
  • Reader & App
  • Resources
    • Articles
      • Open source alternative social networks: empowering users or same old?
      • Beyond distributed and decentralized: what is a federated network?
      • Appendix to ‘Unlikely Outcomes’ – Unlike Us Reader
      • Appendix to ‘Unlikely Outcomes’ – Unlike Us Reader
    • Library
      • Unlike Us general
      • Resistance
      • Online identity
      • Social media & Privacy
      • Social Media Alternatives
  • Contact
    • Mailinglist
  • Home
  • About
  • Past events
    • #1 Limassol
      • program
      • bios
      • practical info
    • #2 Amsterdam
      • Program
      • Biographies
      • Conference Reports
      • Press
      • Videos
      • Timetable
      • Venue
      • practical Info
    • #3 Amsterdam
      • Conference reports
      • Program
      • Practical info
      • Venue
      • Timetable
      • Unlike Us Reader: a collection of essays on social media monopolies and their alternatives
      • Biographies
  • Reader & App
  • Resources
    • Articles
      • Open source alternative social networks: empowering users or same old?
      • Beyond distributed and decentralized: what is a federated network?
      • Appendix to ‘Unlikely Outcomes’ – Unlike Us Reader
      • Appendix to ‘Unlikely Outcomes’ – Unlike Us Reader
    • Library
      • Unlike Us general
      • Resistance
      • Online identity
      • Social media & Privacy
      • Social Media Alternatives
  • Contact
    • Mailinglist

Posts By: Michelle Oosthuyzen

Facebook’s Dirty Secret About its Dirty Job

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, February 23, 2012

As one of the most influential online social media platforms, Facebook thrives on the distribution of its users ‘private’ data and is therefore highly dependent on the concept of transparency. Over the years it has however become clear that founder Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to enjoy the taste of his own medicine. Facebook has always [...]

Mirror mirror on the Facebook wall…

By Michelle Oosthuyzen, February 9, 2012

Warning: objects in this mirror may not correspond with reality           We all have those ‘friends’ on Facebook that splatter their daily lives all over the Facebook walls. They display their daily lives in an overly positive and exaggerated way in an attempt to make even the most common activity seem [...]

  • Newer Entries »

Design and development by Roberto Picerno & Silvio Lorusso.