Email from a Facebook recruiter: I haven’t heard back from you regarding opportunities at Facebook which tells me one of three things:

1. You’re already employed with 100% satisfaction at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and if that’s the case please let me know so I can stop messaging you.
   
2. You’re still interested but haven’t had the time to get back to me. ( Read more... )

I don't use Facebook at all, but I think I have at least three accounts ( Read more... )

Geuh. I'm not a fan of phone verification ( Read more... )

Facebook announced this week that when you visit Pandora for the first time, they'll hand over all of your friend information so Pandora can set up your station with music your friends like. This is the sort of "What were they thinking!?!" news I hear about Facebook every six months or so. The frequency of such moments is the main reason I don't ( Read more... )

Even though I've been on the Internet for more than half my life and on the web for three quarters of its, I have some significant new tech and Web 2.0 luddite streaks. I don't have a cell phone, for instance, though that's as much because I don't want to pay lots of money to deal with the phone company's shenanigans as it is because I don't want ( Read more... )