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Yet Another Facebook Story: Nauseating Smarminess
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb is saying what many of us are thinking about Facebook these days. ...Ownership of content, not the lack of input on policy, was what people were upset about. Facebook appears to forget that it's just one of many ways people use the internet. It's wildly popular today, but just as people have used other social networks in the past - they have other options for social networks to …
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You Get 150 Friends. Choose Them Carefully.
There's so much noise about social networks. It's become tiresome to say the least. Yes, I know I'm adding it to daily. I can't help it it seems. Soc nets are transforming media, so I'm interested, despite the droning from social media experts and the love-hate fascination of mainstream media. Yet, there's a fundamental question that doesn't get addressed that often. How are these soc nets changing the game for us as …
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Yet Another Facebook Story: Is Doubting Facebook Doubting Humanity?
Last year Carmen Joy King quit Facebook. Can you believe it? Why would someone do such a thing? Let's listen. In the end, what does all this online, arms-length self-promotion ultimately provide? Perhaps it's merely one component of the pursuit to alleviate some of the blackness encountered in the existential vacuum of modern life. As Schopenhauer once projected, modern humans may be doomed to eternally vacillate …
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Her Sponge Smells Like A Hot Dog
Virginia Heffernan is one of my favorite writers at The New York Times, along with Rob Walker and a few others. She writes for the Sunday Magazine and also keeps a blog up. Today she strolls down Facebook Update Lane. Her friend Lizzie, a poet, has a theory about this new literary form. "Unlike ALL other walks of life, status updates are the appropriate places for spontaneous bursts of joy and being. You shouldn't …
[UPDATE] Yet Another Facebook Story: The Melting Pot Stirs Things Up
Yesterday, I mentioned that I made a perfect pair on Facebook with the help of The Melting Pot's new FB app, but that I didn't get any kind of confirmation. A representative from Push in Orlando--the agency that developed the work--has been kind enough to step forward and describe how the promotion works. "Once you select two friends as a match, they each get a notification that you think they are a perfect pair …
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Yet Another Facebook Story: The Melting Pot Spreads The Love
Orlando agency, Push, prepared a new Perfect Pairing Facebook application for its client, The Melting Pot, just in time for Valentine's Day. The idea is for you to play matchmaker. Got friends you think would make a perfect pair? Use The Melting Pot's Perfect Pairings application to see how they match up. Melting Pot will give you a free chocolate fondue just for participating. The "Stir Things Up" campaign also …
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Yet Another Facebook Story: Work @Home FTW
Because I'm open to new things, I clicked the sidebar ad on my Facebook Profile page. You might know the one. It says "Work for Google at Home. Learn how I make over $4000 a month part-time at home." The visual is a wad of cash. Anyway, if you click through to the campaign's microsite, JasonMakesMoney.com, you'll be encouraged to order a book of magic tricks from Emillionaire Institute to see how it's all done. I …
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