Now let me make sure I understand this properly.

You pay over $1500 a year to have a cord strung between your house and a huge advertising company. Which connects to a huge, expensive electronic display that you paid hundreds of dollars for.

You spend all your free time passively staring at this device while it beams messages at you.

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I don’t know if I’m typical or not-most people would say generally not-but the main reason I use Facebook is to keep up to date with my friends.

When I check into Facebook, I’m giving you my attention in hopes that you’ll tell me more about what you’re thinking, feeling, and doing. In short, I’m explicitly asking you to tell me more about yourself ( Read more... )

Parents love posting things about their children. Others might incessantly post about their pets, or jobs, or recipes, knitting patterns, or bike rides. Although this post is primarily addressed toward parents, if you post really frequently about any topic, it applies equally to you.

And this isn’t directed at one person. In the past year it ( Read more... )

Six years ago, I posted a poll to my blog, asking for feedback from my readers. One of the questions was whether I posted too often or not enough. Their answer was unambiguous: 60 percent of respondents chose “too infrequently”, while none chose “too frequently”. Surprisingly to me, my readers wanted more of my “stuff”.

From 2003 through 2008, I ( Read more... )

By now, you already know that every time you allow a F*c*book quiz or game to access your profile, you are giving the authors of that application access to not only your own private data, but also all of your friends’ private data, too.

What do you get in exchange for all this private information? The ( Read more... )

Haven’t been inspired to write much lately, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been idle. So I guess it’s time for another potpourri posting. I’ll try to be brief, although there are a lot of little things to go over, and a few lengthy ones.

Everyone always asks me about employment first, so… I haven’t found ( Read more... )

1. Facebook apps. All of them. They should all be banned.
    
2. Crossposting all your tweets to your blog. I subscribed to your blog because I want to read your occasional lengthy thoughts. If I want to read your tweets, there’s this really great site called Twitter where I can go to read them!
    
3. Retweets. Same issue: I’m following you because I want to ( Read more... )

Because they appeared at the same time, I’ve always associated Facebook and MySpace. And frankly, the MySpace pages I’ve seen have lacked any kind of design sense, reminding me of the ( Read more... )