Three Days in The Hole: Facebook Almost Gets One Right
Let’s say Facebook was right. THIS is a solution?
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The Ties That (No Longer) Bind
Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a referendum on what kind of human being you are. And you’re a referendum on me. We are who we ride with.
Read moreThe Five Best Things on Facebook
Facebook is a discordant marketplace-of-ideas battle royale unlike anything in human history. Most of it is inane (or worse) dreck. But some of it is brilliant – enlightening, uplifting, empathetic. If we could get rid of the 99.99% that isn’t we’d have a foundation for a better world. But we can’t. So for now we’ll have to make do with
Read moreToday in online dating: a sociopath explains why her feelings matter and yours don’t
There are lots of bad people doing bad things in their online dating lives. This woman is doing the very worst.
Read moreThere’s an alternative to Facebook: 8 steps to make MeWe work
Facebook sucks. Here are some practical steps to help us replace it.
Read moreReview: MeWe is superior to Facebook in virtually every way
More on MeWe, a new social network: let’s do this
Read moreMeWe: Like Facebook, but with privacy and no ads?
There’s a new social network in town, and at a glance it seems worth a try.
Read moreThe devil you know: the problem with #deleteFacebook
Deleting Facebook is a great idea in theory, but there are practical problems to be considered.
Read morePedophilia and our sexualized media: is naïveté a good thing or a bad thing?
The Mr. C case has me wondering if widespread familiarity with sexual themes and content makes today’s youth more or less susceptible to pedophiles.
Read moreThey're having an online contest to name April's calf: what are the odds on Giraffy McGiraffeface?
What could possibly go wrong? Didn’t we just discuss this, people? I mean, it’s like nobody reads me at all.
Read moreBoaty McBoatface, Footy McFooty Face and Trumpkin: WHY do people keep asking the Internet for help?
San Diego’s MLS hopefuls and Crayola ought to have learned from history. #NewCrayonColors It started innocently enough in 2012, when the geniuses at Mountain Dew decided to ask the Internet’s help in naming their new “green apple with attitude” flavor. The results included “Hitler Did Nothing Wrong,” “Diabeetus” and “Moist Nugget.” Shortly thereafter the Slovaks staged an Internet campaign to name a
Read moreFuture Imperfect: SaraRobinson.net launches, just in time for the Y'allQaeda takeover
Sara Robinson, who has spent years thinking and writing in places like Orcinus, Our Future, Group News Blog, Salon, Grist, the New Republic and New York Magazine (as well as S&R, now that I think about it), has finally struck out on her on her own and debuted Future Imperfect. And just in time. Sara has devoted a great deal of energy
Read moreFacebook’s See Less: the new “feature” that DOES. NOT. WORK.
Recently the wizards at Facebook rolled out a new feature: See Less. It allows you, allegedly, to mark certain of your friends so that fewer of their posts show up in your feed. Intended as a polite way of dialing back your exposure to overparticipaters and people that, for whatever reason, you just aren’t as interested in as others. Great
Read moreSocial media usability: Facebook, Flickr and WordPress can blow me
Fucking bastards, every goddamned one of them. Starting a few days ago Facebook seems to have “improved” the site again. All of a sudden, when you paste the URL of an image post from a WordPress site into the status box it doesn’t want to auto-load the image. Not only that, there is no way in hell, that I can
Read moreOnline dating tips and etiquette: is it rude not to reply?
In the online world, bad behavior can be the best behavior. How is this possible? In “real life,” when someone approaches and asks you out, you’re obliged by social custom to reply. You may not be interested, but you can’t just pretend that the person isn’t standing there talking to you. That would be unspeakably rude. So we have developed
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