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Posting Facebook status updates & photos by email is antiquated but still useful

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Facebook secretly lets you post comments and photos by email, here's how it works and why you'd want to use it.

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Facebook says “anecdotes” of it suppressing status updates in order to receive payments are untrue

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Facebook has denied that it is suppressing high profile and business users' status updates in order to encourage them to pay to reach more of their fans and followers.

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Google+: “Never miss another post” with Facebook-style friend/brand notifications

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Google+ releases a subscribe option which will notify you every time a friend or brand updates their status - a bit like the system Facebook has had in place for the last few years.

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Seriously, schedule your Happy New Year’s social, email & SMS message now

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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This year you really should schedule your Happy New Year's Eve SMS, social media, and email messages before the networks become clogged with traffic.

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Facebook Messages, what it does and how to use it

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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As we reported earlier in the month Facebook Messages is being rolled out across Ireland. A new batch of users had the service activated in the past day. But many are still wondering what Facebook Messages is and how to use it. Our simple guide will fill you in on the important bits of this simple but powerful addition to Facebook.

Facebook Voice Calling via Inside Facebook

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Facebook and Skype testing voice calling for some users

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Facebook appears to be testing voice calling directly within the webpage for a limited number of users. A number of users are seeing a "Call" button beside the "Send Message" and "Poke" buttons on their friend's profile pages. When pressed the button places a call to the friend

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.