Social Media

History: 140 Characters At A Time

April 16, 2010

Nothing has made me quite as self-conscious about tweeting as the knowledge that those tweets will be recorded for all of time within the Library of Congress. But I do actually believe in the logic behind the decision.

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Hide Annoying Facebook Applications In Your News Feed

January 31, 2010
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I’ve often griped about Facebook. But the truth is once you deny access to 90% of the Facebook applications and hide anything ending with ‘Ville’ from your news feed, it gets back to being friends sharing thoughts and images with each other. And that is something I can appreciate.

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Are Online Friends “Real Friends”?

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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The Shitty First Draft and Social Media

June 3, 2009

So for the last week or so I’ve been eagerly reading Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. What a beautiful book this is!

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Facebook Statuses At A Glance

May 12, 2009
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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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Fight Club: Social Versus Traditional Media

March 22, 2009

I recently wondered if early social media adopters were antisocial, though perhaps users have reason to be suspicious of traditional media ‘spin’ when it comes to their beloved social media services.

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Are Early Adopters Antisocial?

March 20, 2009

You always know when a social media service you use has appeared in mainstream media because people are talking about it. Both on the service itself and in other places too. There seems to be a mixture of giddy anticipation and trepidation among hardcore users when the likes of Jay Leno, Whoopi Goldberg and Ellen DeGeneres start making mention of Twitter.

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The Syntax Of Twitter

March 4, 2009

John is as John does. Or something. I’ll never forget the words of my year ten English teacher Ms. Beddoe. She wrote: John is a fluent, careful writer. This actually puzzled me more than anything that had appeared on a school report before.

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