Back at ASAE’s Great Ideas conference in February, there was a lot of talk about social media–and a lot of talk about how social media could eventually spell the death of associations. Since I work for an association and don’t relish the idea of being out of a job, I didn’t give it much thought […]
Twitter Me This: Why Is Twitter’s Popularity Surprising?
So today’s Washington Post has yet another article about how stupid Twitter is, this time in the context of sports. Ok, ok–we get it–Twitter is stupid. Who the hell cares about what you or I had for breakfast, or that we’re stuck in traffic, or how we were walking down the street and suddenly a […]
Infidelity 2.0
Pre-internet, finding ways to cheat on your spouse were limited–you either worked with the person, lived near the person, or were already in some way connected to the person (à la your husband’s best friend or something along those lines). Then came the internet–suddenly the pool of potential cheating partners got a lot larger. It […]
Mystery of the Missing Public Profile Page Updates Solved
When Facebook changed its Terms of Service in February, you would have thought the sky had fallen–angry rants and news reports about Facebook stealing the rights to people’s data were all over the place. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg quickly rescinded the new terms and made a big to-do about how Facebook is a democracy and […]
How Much Authority Can $9.99 Buy?
A few days ago, on the heels of reading a post about the concept of authority in the world of social media–basically how popularity equals authority–I read another post about Facebook NetworkedBlogs. It launched in June of 2008 but this was the first time I’d read about it. It seemed like a good way to […]