Friends

Pencil Sketch: Austin

by John Lacey on August 26, 2010

By rights I should know better. I mean I am always posting encouraging videos, I’m always quoting supportive passages of The Artist’s Way. But a part of me was beginning to think that the ability to create art was perhaps something you were born with, something you either had or didn’t have, and I was beginning to think I didn’t have it. I’ve had a frustrating couple of weeks, dissatisfied with the work I’ve been producing. A part of me was thinking about packing up my art supplies for good.

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Facebook and Friendship

by John Lacey on April 24, 2010

People, in effect, opt in to a relationship with you. And the flip side of this is that they can also opt out of that relationship at any moment.

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Are Online Friends “Real Friends”?

by John Lacey on June 25, 2009

I understand the desire to differentiate between those relationships in daily life and those that exist online. I understand that there are different dimensions and dynamics to both. What I struggle with though is the implication that friendships formed online are in some way inferior, trivial or ‘unreal.’

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Facebook Statuses At A Glance

by John Lacey on May 12, 2009

In the top left hand corner of the screen you will see a number of options that let you filter the information in other ways. You can sort by the networks you’re a part of, by recent photographs, links and status updates.

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