My recurring New Year Resolution is to use social networks other than Facebook before I use Facebook, for as long as I can stand to keep it up (I usually last about a month).

This year you can find me on the following sites:

https://www.reddit.com/user/sparr/submitted/ Reddit is a very popular meta-forum site with hundreds of millions of users ( Read more... )

Every year I commit to seriously using social networks other than Facebook. I read my news feed on other networks before visiting FB. I cross post things to other networks in addition to FB. This usually lasts for a few weeks, some years a couple of months, before the effort becomes too much and I fall back to just using FB and Reddit again with ( Read more... )

Every year around the holidays I make a new year resolution to spend more time on less popular social networks and social media sites. I like to keep up with what new options are out there and revisit older platforms that I still have connections on. There are also plenty of reasons to avoid Facebook, and lately there's been enough ruckus about ( Read more... )

Last week I had a disagreement with some folks about what "social network" means, and my latest attempt to use alternatives to Facebook has really driven home how the distinctions here have been lost in both our language and the tools available to us.

A "social network" is a website (or app or other tool) that allows you to connect with people ( Read more... )

 This last weekend has brought a few long term trends into focus for me, and this post is my start to seeing if there are any useful conclusions or resolutions that I might reach.

Over time, as I find communities populated by people with whom I am more compatible (more rational, less fragile, more agency-exhibiting, less emotional, etc), I upset ( Read more... )

As a new wave of migration away from Facebook begins, I am looking at old and new platforms to maybe use again. I spent a lot of years having a lot of great interactions with friends on LiveJournal, but as people left due to the Russian connection I never really saw much of them here or elsewhere ( Read more... )

This weekend I'm at Shibaricon for the first time. I'm living in Chicago right now, so this may be my only chance to attend without paying for travel. I'm writing this on Sunday evening, while things are fresh on my mind. The event goes until Monday afternoon, so there's still one more night of play and a half day of classes ahead of me, but I don' ( Read more... )

Some of the things I've written lately have prompted people to inform me that there are rumors about me that I did not know about. I would greatly appreciate hearing those rumors. I am allowing anonymous comments on this post.

The busiest day on my calendar in the last 3 months, in terms of events I want to attend and I know at least some of my friends will be at, and that includes NYE. This prompts two questions ( Read more... )

I used a graphing app to chart my facebook network (I'll probably do the same for LJ soon, just harder to mine the data).  The results show predictable patterns, but is interesting nonetheless.


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