Deleting Facebook is a great idea in theory, but there are practical problems to be considered. Lately we’ve been hearing a lot of chatter on the #deleteFacebook front. Elon Musk deleted his companies’ […]
Facebook remains clueless about everything except their dominant mission: make Mark Zuckerberg richer. The other day, I was reminded of Richard Spencer’s existence. Now that he’s on the radar and media of […]
Ten years has seen the evisceration of newsrooms; the alteration of form, function, and distribution of information; and the emergence of a distorted public discourse. Oh, joy. Since 2007, I’ve written about […]
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 […]
New research suggests that social media is a bubble – how long before it bursts? These are heady days for social media interests. Facebook and Twitter run rampant, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vine and Instagram […]
Somebody needs to teach Facebook’s CEO how to wield wealth and influence. This started out as a brief comment on Frank’s post about leaving Facebook. If you haven’t read it yet, go do […]
Did Facebook’s scientific study contribute to user suicides? We’ll never know, but statistics demand that we ask the question. Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: As the title of this post indicates, you owe us […]
It came to my attention looking through my own Facebook Timeline that children being born right now could very well have their entire lives documented online – from birth, if their parents […]
Today’s LA Times asks a good question: Is Mark Zuckerberg in over his hoodie as Facebook CEO? Business writers Walter Hamilton and Jessica Guynn dig into an issue that I suspect some of us […]
It’s an interesting time to be Facebook. You know, as in the old Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times.” They’ve been the target of freedom and privacy advocates for some […]
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