Tag Archives: social networking

Twitter and micro-blogging: a new medium?

My friend Steve got me to sign up for Twitter last October. He was just so damn excited about it that I gave in and registered for what I thought to be “another damn social networking and poor excuse for an instant messenger for the geek elite” account. After more some more thoughts about twitter [...]

Anti-social networking continued

As a child I hated this time of year. Family and friends had provided me with some material Christmas goodies, New Year’s meant school was about to start again, and my thank you cards remained unwritten. Not a very difficult choice for me as a young boy. I could read about elves and dwarves kicking [...]

Antisocial networking

Enough, I’ve had enough. I just deleted my old Friendster and Tribe.net accounts. I deleted a bunch of “friends” who I’ve never met in my Myspace life. I was close to deleting my whole Myspace account, that poor excuse for ad dispersal. Myspace will go in the next couple of months if [Rupert] doesn’t clean [...]