i am appalled at the people sharing photos of a person now subject of a police manhunt on suspicions of fatally shooting a biker. only yesterday, these same people participated in the public lynching of a man they did not know: they called him all kinds of evil names and threatened him with humiliation, torture, and execution. i am disgusted at ( Read more... )

a lot of my friends have pointed out my conspicuous absence from social media these last few months, and i think i owe anyone (myself, included) who has ever missed my presence a sufficient, albeit delayed explanation. when my father died at the beginning of october last year, i decided to go on a social media fast. it was only supposed to last the ( Read more... )

i have not bothered to open facebook’s recap of my 2014, which is really just a collection of the most popular posts on my page. it is an inaccurate review, because it measures the importance of a photo or status update based on the number of likes or comments it received. i have no control over how people will react to any of my actions on social ( Read more... )

i am many kinds of poser, but what distinguishes me from the regular poser is that i have absolutely no shame in admitting my pretense: it is an essential part of being a social animal. we are usually part of groups that have very specific interests. some of us acquire these interests, sometimes superficially, while others look for people who share ( Read more... )