Tag Archives: 'facebook'

• Impending Doom

  “[Twitter's official Facebook application is] quite useful for those of us who don’t want to have to spend all day updating multiple services with the same messages.” Or those of us unfortunate enough to read about it. Note: I am making a serious effort to break my TechCrunch habit. It’s just not going that well… [...]

• Vanity Fair

  If this, er, TechCrunch report* is true, there is something horribly wrong with our society… “Needless to say, a lot of people were left in the dust, forced to settle for something other than the [Facebook] vanity URL they’d been dreaming of for weeks.” * Sometimes I cannot help myself. I’m still reading the Huffington [...]

• Qwitter

  Am I ashamed to quit Twitter? No, not really; it just wasn’t my thing. To effectively use my analogy, I walked into the bar, heard the conversation, and decided that the conversation was lame. (Well, the conversation was not lame; the bar was. The conversation didn’t help.) No offense to those “talking,” but the idea [...]

• On Why I Left Facebook

  I’ve probably hinted at why I’ve left Facebook, at some point or another, but to needlessly go in length on such an inane and insubstantial topic, just because I can, here goes (and what better forum than a grade-a blog)… Simply, it is a waste of time. I was having drinks with a land developer [...]

• Share

  One more thought on Twitter before I am shown the exit… If it helps people communicate, god bless. And I mean that for all sorts of web services that are widely available to everyone and anyone. The Facebook photo application is horrible. The best photo sharing service is clearly Flickr (and for most users, the [...]

• Purgatory

  Facebook requires a two-week waiting period after requesting to delete an account before it is actually removed, a profile purgatory of sorts. (Buying a gun only requires five days for a background check.) If you know of any support groups on this subject, please let me know.

• Real-Time Time-Suck

  I mean, this is funny, right? Not everyone is complaining [about the Facebook redesign]. Russell Imrie, an unemployed machinist from Redwood Estates in the Santa Cruz Mountains, said he likes the real-time updates that now flow into his feed. Previously, users had to wait about 10 minutes, refresh the page or click on a link [...]

• Twitter

  A couple weeks ago, I finally caved in to pressure I am not sure is even there. I created a Twitter account. I’m not sure if that is even how you say it. I created a Twitter. And then I tweeted. I have alternately set it as private and public, but that is not the [...]

• Jesus on Facebook

  I am in the midst of decommissioning my Facebook account — a process that began when I inadvertently realized I had 111 so-called friends; I am now at 11 — which is (surprisingly) having all sorts of reverberations (more on that… later… maybe). I’m taking a moment to remember my best-of statuses, or what I [...]

• 25 Random Things About Me

  There is this meme going around Facebook. I usually avoid memes, and I hate using that word,* but there is no other way to describe it. The deal is you are supposed to post twenty-five random things about you. It was too enticing, especially since I am much more open on this blog, and have [...]

• Other People’s Grandparents

  A Facebook chat with a very old childhood friend (best friend from age four through seven)… I remember the cottage we visited at Cuba Lake. Is it the same place? That was a lot of fun. I also remember stopping by your grandma’s house on the way home once. That was awkward. It is weird [...]

• 111 Friends

  I do not have 111 friends. I don’t think I’ll ever have 111 friends, nor do I think that I’ll want to. With that being said, for one fleeting moment, I did have 111 friends. At least according to my Facebook account. I think if I added up all of the friends that I would [...]

• Loose Ends

  I’ve taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]

• GMail

  GMail was down for roughly an hour yesterday — which is like forever in internet speed and time. Google, the super-evil company that runs the service, eventually apologized. But that did give me an excuse to play off the ordeal with my Facebook status… Jeffrey needs to learn to cope without gmail. Jeffrey is learning [...]

• MBABook

  The one admittedly useful thing about Facebook — and I am not talking about the latest and greatest application that is deemed useful (but is everything but) by the good folks at TechCrunch* — is the ability to connect with old friends from college and high school. I recently reconnected with a high school classmate [...]