Tag: social networks

20 Results

| September 26, 2014

Ello, it's me

I’m sure this has been noted many times, but it strikes me that one of the central conventions of sitcoms is that...

| September 26, 2014

hello Ello

Like everyone else I know, it seems, I’m fooling around with Ello. My first comment there was: “So if I understand...

| September 19, 2013

popularity sort

The problem with Instapaper’s new Popularity Sort — essentially, an engine for finding out what everyone else...

| August 10, 2011

the ethics of self-naming

Rachel, the Velveteen Rabbi, says people should be free to choose the names they are known by, online and offline....

| July 8, 2011

minus Google plus

When Google asked me why I chose to delete my Google+ service, here’s what I wrote: First of all, I am not especially...

| March 14, 2011

mine and yours

Why do social media always have to be about social competition? Everyone on Facebook is aware of how many friends they...

| March 2, 2011

the social trap

Andrew Keen: Today’s digital social network is a trap. Today’s cult of the social, peddled by an unholy...