Goodbye Facebook, it's been nice...
My Facebook header... Have you heard of 'Enshittification'? It's a concept created by Cory Doctorow, and it's summed up on Google as: ...the three-stage decline of online platforms: first attracting u…
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And Facebook carries on downwards....
In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO. It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn't gone according to plan; the usual 'Day One Spike' associate…
The obligatory Facebook IPO post....or...Hey! Zuckerberg! You're my bitch!
Well, despite the state of the world economy, Facebook finally managed it's IPO today and ended the day at roughly the same level as it launched at, having had a high point of about $42 and a start po…
Social Media and the mob
One of my favourite films is 'The Fisher King')- one of the most haunting scenes in it is where Radio 'Shock Jock' Jack Lucas repeats the words 'Forgive me' from a TV script he is hoping to star in, w…
Facebook would like you to share even more....
There's an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project. She does this by applying electric shocks to t…
You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.
You might have missed this. I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…
Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?
I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…
24 hours of techno-hell!
For better or worse I'm a tad dependent upon the technology around me working to support me in my work, entertainment, staying in touch with friends - the usual. So, I have to say now that Friday 26t…
Is this a valid test of Social Media Newsgathering?
A few days ago I came across this news story, in which a group of French journalists are to be holed up in a farmhousesomewhere with no access to normal news media but with access to Social Media - Tw…
Facebook friends limited to 150 by the brain?
As anyone who's ever heard me rant about the 'numbers game' side of networking - especially on sites such as Ecademy, Linked in or Facebook - will testify, I'm a great believer in quality rather than …