The sum of the crowd’s IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains. Dan Simmons – The Fall of Hyperion We’ve seen it time and time again. Someone takes to a blog or social media to accuse someone of heinous wrong doing and like two magnetic poles [...]
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Innocent Until Proven Guilty – Except On The Internet
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Media, mob, reporting, social media
Facebook Home is in the Wrong House
I couldn’t agree more with Pete Pachal’s analysis on Mashable that launching, and initially limiting Facebook Home to the U.S. market is the wrong move. Facebook should have launched “Home” in a market with a need for lower cost devices without such heavy broadband penetration. For those who’ve been living under a rock for the past 48 [...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Technology Tagged With: Android, Facebook, social media, social networks
Dating, Lying, Facebook
We were listening to the Bobby Bones show (it’s Sara’s new favorite morning radio show) on the way to work, when they ran a promo asking people to call in if they ever had or would use a fake name on a date to “protect yourself because it’s so easy for people to find you on [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: dating, Facebook, Privacy, social media
Being an Insensitive Jerk Doesn’t Make You a Criminal
And I am so very thankful for that. Via AL.com - Blount County man jailed after Facebook post saying he was so irritated he could “shoot up an elementary school“. Sometimes the knee-jerk reactions of Americans (yes, and others), grasp of their own constitution, language and the law is fucking shocking. If being an insensitive jerk [...]
Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Facebook, free speech, politically-correct, social media
Has The “Connected World” Failed And Actually Made Us Lonely?
Does constant online interaction actually make us more alone and disconnected from real life? Food for thought: One need not look far past Sartre and Kierkegaard to be reminded of an immutable human truth: that we are never more alone than when surrounded by people. Complex, imperfect, frustrating person-to-person interaction is what human beings really [...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Technology Tagged With: relationships, social media, social networking
Pay With A Like? Share Before You Can See Content?
I’m always looking for new ways to bring traffic to our network of sites, but the new “Pay With A Like” plugin from WPMU feels socially dishonest to me. The Pay with a Like plugin lets you leverage the power of social currency in order to give access to content or a download. You know [...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Technology Tagged With: plugins, social currency, social media, WordPress
Add Social Share Buttons To The WordPress Post Management Screen
One of the things that’s difficult with blogs where you pump out a lot of content is having an overview of how many shares your posts are getting on Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and other networks without visiting each post individually to check out the share buttons. Sure this can be accomplished via analytics but depending on the analytics platform you use the [...]
Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: code, social media, WordPress
The Google+ Badge Is Horrendous
It’s well known that I’ve already surrendered to my Google overlords and fervently chase each new product they offer with the enthusiasm of a horny teenage boy trying to catch his first glimpse of a real pair of boobs, so when I choose to put fingers to keyboard to complain about something, you’d better believe that I’ve [...]
Filed Under: Opinion, Technology Tagged With: badges, Facebook, Google, Internet, social media
So You Deleted Your Comment… #TrueStory
It really gets my goat when I write an amazingly witty retort to a comment on Reddit, only to find the comment I’m replying too has already been deleted by the time I hit “save”. The world will never be able to appreciate the sheer genius of those replies. They simply don’t have the same impact when [...]