What Sign of the Apocalypse is it that we require our button-apps and time-waster devices to remind us that there’s an election coming up? Why isn’t this something I can turn off? It’s everywhere, Facebook, Instagram, Discord, Twitter. The oligarchy is as One reminding me that I need to Register to Vote. Never mind the… Read More I Know How to Vote, Facebook
This may sounds like the typical lament of social media, but I got into an argument yesterday that bored me. It was about history, and it involved an alternative history theory I’ve communicated in a number of ways. And I don’t mind the fact that people disputed it. Good points were made. What bothers me… Read More The Only Argument That Matters is Performance
Bret Easton Ellis, writing in his essay collection White, on the social-corporate demand of inclusivity: Most people of a certain age probably noticed this when they joined their very first corporation. Facebook encouraged its users to “like” things, and because this platform is where they branded themselves on the social Web for the first time, their… Read More We Have to Be Liked
Chris Hughes, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and others 15 years ago when they were students at Harvard, believes the federal government should dismantle the extraordinarily powerful social-media giant. In a 5,700-word New York Times op-ed piece published Thursday, Hughes argued that Zuckerberg holds “unchecked power” that is “unprecedented and un-American.” “Mark is a… via… Read More Facebook Should Be Broken Up, Company Co-Founder Says
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dsi3mz/TDTU7.m4a In this episode, I talk about the future: how social media is the thing we love to hate, and how analog records came back from the grave.
Full Disclosure: This article on Medium is by the official account of Gab, the free-speech Social Network that grew up in the aftermath of the first round of Twitter going after conservatives. So, they’re not exactly a neutral observer, and if you don’t care about free-speech for people you don’t like, then you might find… Read More How to Remove Facebook From Your Life
At least, that’s the practical upshot of this otherwise jargon-free article about using Facebook to increase your awareness. Useful in that it advocates not trying to make Facebook into something it isn’t. Facebook is an absolutely amazing platform to build and grow your business. What’s even better than that? It’s absolutely free to use! The… Read More One Must Engage to Get “Engagement”
AKA, Reflections Appropriate to Any Time Spend on Twitter I hate your stupid opinions. I hate reading them. I hate hearing you express them. I hate the way you just repeat things you’ve heard. I hate the way you never pause to examine if anything you’re repeating is true. I hate the way Social Media… Read More Everything You Idiots Care About is Stupid
And by “recent” I of course mean “yesterday” Less recently, I took Facebook off my phone. It just takes up too much data space, and I tire of scrolling through it. This doesn’t mean that Facebook is “dead” to me, but it does mean that I will be using it less frequently. The charm of… Read More Writing Apps and Social Media – Some Recent Experiences
It will help you keep an audience when you’ve got one. That’s not what this post at Book Designer starts to say, but that’s what they end up concluding. The lede is buried here: Your key to more followers isn’t posting more frequently or having more conversations. Nor is it constantly checking your feeds to… Read More Authors: Social Media Will Not Bring You an Audience.
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