Posts Tagged Facebook

  • Losing half our friends every seven years Losing half our friends every seven years

    Here’s a story sure to cheer you up.  Consider who are your closest friends.  Got a mental image?  Good.  Now, consider that half of them will be replaced within the next seven years.  No, this isn’t science fiction, but social science instead. Sociologist Gerald Mol...

  • E3 2009: Microsoft press conference review E3 2009: Microsoft press conference review

    This year sees E3 trying to return to its roots after a disastrous 2008 show.  One of the biggest parts of any E3 show is the console manufacturers’ press conferences.  They typically range from the epic (introduction of the Wii) to the horribly, horribly wrong (introduction of the PS...

  • Facebook has become too popular to be useful Facebook has become too popular to be useful

    Face it, Facebook, you’re just too popular.  You’re the local weatherman who can’t go to the adult bookstore because everyone knows your face (never mind who would have to be there to rat you out).  What was once a cool fad has gone mainstream to the point where grandma and grandpa are u...

  • Facebook, Plato’s Cave, and why I feel normal Facebook, Plato’s Cave, and why I feel normal

    There was a time when I resisted the lure of Facebook.  I had already used MySpace and found it rather pointless.  It was mostly just old high school and college friends wanting to “reconnect” long enough to see how many kids I have, and not much else.  What was the point for a non-15-yea...