how much the internet giants know about us.

Google isn't totally unhelpfu

Every event to which I've ever been invited is neatly listed, alongside its location, time, and whether I said I would attend .

One piece of information – a supposed engagement to a schoolfriend, Amy Holmes – stands out. A Facebook "joke" that seemed faintly funny for about a week several years ago was undone by hiding it from any and all Facebook users, friends or otherwise (to avoid an "… is now single!" status update). The forgotten relationship helpfully explains why Facebook has served me up with badly targeted bridalwear adverts for several years, and reassures me that Facebook doesn't know quite everything.

This is the core of the main comfort

despite their mountain of data, Google and Facebook seem largely clueless, too – they've had no more luck making any sense out of it than I have. And that, for now, is a relief.

"The majority of people we see with serious internet addiction are gamers – people who spend long hours in roles in various games that cause them to disregard their obligations. I have seen people who stopped attending university lectures, failed their degrees or their marriages broke down because they were unable to emotionally connect with anything outside the game."

We are doing it because modern life requires us to link up over the net in regard to jobs, professional and social connections – but not in an obsessive way.

you know they have a problem

"internet addiction disorder"

emotional processing, attention, decision making and cognitive control.

"The limitations [of this study] are that it is not controlled, and it's possible that illicit drugs, alcohol or other caffeine-based stimulants might account for the changes. The specificity of 'internet addiction disorder' is also questionable."

Facebook je „tretja največja država na svetu“.

zasebnosti na spletu

Pri zasebnosti je tako potrebna določena mera previdnosti. Nihče ne more odgovarjati za neumnost in naivnost uporabnikov.

Osebni podatki pa so danes praktično valuta. Zanje ali z njimi poslujemo.

splet tudi eden največjih konsenzov na svetu.

"It's the absolute antithesis of the internet where the participating parties on the edge of the network pay for access to it," he said.

"Freedom to innovate on the network has been largely a consequence of its economic model and its openness."

Mueller says: "We're all 'prepared to fight t

We're not building the kind of new institutions we need to govern the internet and keep it free."

our mobile phone company, home phone, cable television provider, or even your local supermarket chain can offer you an internet connection.

one that allows you to access the internet quickly and view large files, such as watching television programmes or listening to the radio through your computer.