Thought Leadership Essays

ITL #64 Facebook and Whatsapp: the pursuit of an alternative to clutter

By: Tarek Lasheen 24/02/2014

The eye-watering valuation Facebook has put on Whatsapp is revealing as it points to the giant social network’s own weaknesses. By Tarek Lasheen.

ITL #25 The flattening of emotion: is overreliance on social media damaging to the human psyche?

By: Tarek Lasheen 09/05/2013

The manner in which we share information via social media has dulled our emotional responses, increasingly numbing us to atrocities and distancing us from the things that really matter. By Tarek Lasheen.