[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG! […]
I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time. 7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone else to attempt to catch up on his usual e-mail backlog. Getting from 130 down to 50 feels like success. 8:27am – some people say leftover pizza […]
Rarely do I read an article where I just keep going “yes, yes, yes!” (well, not in a mainstream publication anyhow! ) But that was my reaction after reading “The Facebook Generation vs. The Fortune 500”, a Wall Street Journal article which outlines the 12 differences between the Facebook generation (aka Generation Y aka Millennials […]
When I first started looking into the NDP leadership race, I went to the now obligatory Facebook fan pages of each of the four leadership candidates. I was a bit shocked to see that Dwain Lingenfelter had almost twice the number of supporters that Ryan Meili had – even though Meili was the much younger […]
I did a “Seven Things You Don't Know About Me” mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full “25 Things” meme that's going around. Apparently neither has this guy…And you know a meme has jumped the shark when Time magazine is weighing in with their own snark. So there's no way […]
(with the relevant Mark Zuckerberg apology excerpt in italics…)1. Their launch of Newsfeed in 2006 which they implement, then backtrack then re-implement it with tighter privacy controls available.“We know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them [NewsFeed and Mini-NewsFeed] overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see […]
You know you are a nerd when you spend your New Year's Day eve classifying all of your Facebook friends into sub-groups using the site's new(ish?) “Friend List” option.I didn't put a lot of thought into my classification scheme so it's a bit random and not the most accurate thing in the world but basically, […]
See if you can follow this…Shea's cousin posted a comment on a photo that someone he knows uploaded to Facebook. Shea was able to view this photo and the comments that had been made about it even though she is not Facebook friends with the person that originally posted the photo. (This is a […]
Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school but I think every time I've taken the test (official or an unofficial variation) since then, I've gotten ENFP.Here's a summary of what that personality type is […]
It is in Canada but this map of social network popularity around the world shows there are a number of other services that are popular depending on where you are in the world – MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, etc. (via Reddit)
