The approaching Holiday Season is beginning to feel like a social traffic jam for the first time since before COVID ( Read more... )

Remembering back when a bunch of people left LJ because, OMG, it is based in Russia ( Read more... )

I didn't know downloading my Facebook archive was possible! Late last year I downloaded all 13 years of my current LJ account's stuff, in case the service went poof someday (I have an older LJ account that I abandoned when I created this account, and it looks like I archived that long ago). But I didn't know you could do this with Facebook ( Read more... )

I've put Facebook in jail while deciding whether to execute it ( Read more... )

Facebook's market capitalization is currently $191 billion.

In the same range, from $150 to $250 billion as, for example:

Disney, Intel, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Verizon, Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer -- all huge companies that actually sell stuffI think Facebook is clearly the most overvalued stock within its range ( Read more... )

It was exciting at first, as it swept up all my LJ friends, family, partners, and nearly everybody else. I became obsessed with Facebook, and enjoyed receiving Likes and reading people's comments on my posts. I enjoyed interacting with others. I would check Facebook constantly, on my phone if I was away from my laptop ( Read more... )