Posts Tagged ‘social networking’

As a postscript . . .

Check out the hilariously ironic CAPTCHA phrase I had to type in to escape the clutches of Zuckerbergland:

I left Facebook. What will you do?

New York Times – “To manage your privacy on Facebook, you will need to navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options.” Consumerist – “It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Facebook won’t let a little thing like respect for its users get in the way of its quest for total internet domination.” Electronic Frontier [...]

What the #&*! are you doing?

If there’s one thing that’s true about humans, it’s that as soon as they develop a new technology, they’ll figure out a way to use it for anything other than its intended purpose. Because it’s fun to break something as soon as you’ve mastered the proper use of it. It was only a matter of [...]

Generation Web

A friend of mine had a baby today, and it was the first time that I’d been notified of the arrival of a new life via Facebook. My first reaction was happiness, and then awe. When my friends announced that they were pregnant, they created a Facebook page for their baby. I thought “oh, that’s [...]

Don't Point. It's Rude.

At least once a month I have to log into Facebook and un-tag pictures of myself. There is a segment of the Facebook population who feels that they are doing a public service by identifying every single person in every single photo they see. It never occurs to them that the people in the photos [...]

Comment Killa

On social networking sites I frequently notice a phenomenon of Comment Killas. You know who I mean. This is That Person who, merely by making a simple post, put a 187 on the entire discussion. Why? Because this person is a pariah, a troll, or a ticking time bomb of drama that nobody even wants [...]