August 9, 2009
April 19, 2009
“ My mother is on Match.com,” Melvin said. “So there’s no way I’m going to be on there.
April 7, 2009
Unfriend Zone
I’ll always stay in your social networks, so I know who to exclude from mine.10 months ago • 8 notes
“ Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small circles of intimacy as ever.
March 28, 2009
“ Facebook is trying to teach members to use privacy settings to manage their network so they can speak discreetly only to certain friends, like co-workers or family members, as opposed to other “friends” like bosses or professional colleagues. But most Facebook users haven’t taken advantage of the privacy settings; the company estimates that only 20 percent of its members use them.
Facebook at 5 - Is It Growing Up Too Fast? - NYTimes.com
via datainsightsideas, who says: Yes, because enabling privacy settings turn into more of a “headache” to the common user (particularly the exploding 35+ demographic) when they are hidden behind a deceptively simple (yet, really complex) UI.
10 months ago • 6 notes
March 3, 2009
“ Our focus should not be on emerging technologies but on emerging cultural practices.
Henry Jenkins, Professor of Comparative Media, MIT, and author of Convergence Culture: When Old and New Media Collide From a slideshow on Gerd Leonhard’s Music 2.0 site (via, via anthropophagous)
11 months ago
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February 13, 2009
blogs (via twenetysomethingtales)
- Customs Officer at airport: (examining passport) What is the purpose of your visit?
- twentysomethingtales: Pleasure
- Officer: And what will you be doing here?
- TST: I'm visiting my [boyfriend]
- (Officer eyes [TST] suspiciously)
- Officer: And...you live in America? And he lives here?
- TST: Yes
- Officer: How did you meet
- TST: ....um...online.
- Officer: Online?
- TST: Yeah, well he reads my blog...I read his...
- Officer: (laughing) Blog? I've got to start reading those blogs.
February 5, 2009
- Matt: so, on a panel at SXSW, huh? what about?
- Nick: "sex lives of the microfamous"
- Matt: so, "who's screwing who among the who's not quite who"?
February 2, 2009
“ Perhaps a person armed with technology could keep track of 10,000 people, but how many of those relationships actually matter?
