How many do you belong to? A quick count indicates I'm probably on about twenty of them and maybe active on ten of those or so. There are probably some gaps – I'd call YouTube a social networking site and MetaFilter too. Any site that allows you to create a profile and connect with other […]
[Edit: A sample of the growing Facebook backlash from across the web.] I recently wrote about the backlash against Facebook for the increased loosening of their privacy controls. Between that, their arbitrary movement of your profile information to suit their needs, security holes in their chat and Instant Personalization program and the increased whispers about […]
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook. Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture.
Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect. Lately, Facebook has been giving an even stronger impression than ever before (if that's even possible) that their early appeal as the one social web site which gave […]
Easily the best session at the PLA Virtual Conference I hosted at RPL last week was the one on “Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Web Site”. In fact, throughout the presentation, I just kept nodding my head and grinning like a goofball, thinking to myself, “Yep, uh-huh, that's right!” […]
Very revealing conversation with lots of info about the behind-the-scenes workings of Facebook as well as the site's future plans. Obviously, it's important to keep in mind this is an anonymous interview on the Internet. So who knows how true it is? AllofFacebook.com, a site dedicated to all things Facebook has an analysis but won't […]
This article entitled “Facebook's Great Betrayal” is a bit out-dated now but a few weeks ago, users logging in to Facebook were asked to choose some new privacy settings – many of them ominously set to “Everyone”. A lot of the success of Facebook versus other social networking sites was that it gave users such […]
Shea posted a hilarious anti-breastfeeding article pro-Nestle Fake Milk Formula to her Facebook status with the usual heavy response to anytime this type of topic comes up – from both pro-breastfeeding moms and those who weren't able to or aren't as worked up about the prevalance of formula in our society. It made me think, […]
Facebook has stolen added a new feature, inspired by Twitter, where you can tag another user by using the “@” sign and then typing the person's name in your status updates. When I was trying it out to tag Shea in a post, I ended with a rhetorical “Is this a Twitter killer?” A few […]
