Photo Sharing Work Flow
Since April 2, 2019, I have been taking and posting a #DailyPhoto. This project started when my friend Sally asked if anyone wanted to join her in a #100DayProject where…
Software Development and the User
I've been thinking about software usability a lot lately, mostly because I encounter so much software that isn't particularly usable. There are two pieces of software that I use a…
Facebook Security
Robin pointed out an article about Facebook security today that made me think about some things that everyone who browses the web should know about but which the article unfortunately neglects to…
New Definition of “Friend”
One of the ways that I first knew that Facebook was having a major impact on our society was that I heard my friends in the real world, many of whom…
Facebook Places
Here's the status update of one of my friends on Facebook today (August 29): "IMPORTANT!!! Facebook launched Facebook Places yesterday. Anyone can find out where you are when you are…
FaceBook Profile Pictures
The BBC is sponsoring a very cool project to get people excited about science. It's called So You Want To Be a Scientist. Over 1300 people submitted ideas for scientific questions…
Conspicuous Consumption
I've commented on this blog before about my love of the status update, both on FaceBook and Twitter. I love reading about what my friends are currently doing and regularly…
Twitter Followers
My favorite part of FaceBook is the status update. I love to see what my friends are saying about their activities. As a result, I really like Twitter. For me,…
Arrested for Poking
A Tennessee woman was arrested after poking another woman on FaceBook. What's interesting to me about this story is that ABC News decided it was newsworthy. It just doesn't seem…
Patrick Swayze
At 8:05 tonight, the AP announced that Patrick Swayze had died. By 8:25, my Aunt Ava had posted a FB status update that he had died of pancreatic cancer. Within minutes…
Summer Play
As I've mentioned before, I'm chairing a panel at NeMLA in April about using Web 2.0 technologies to play. Because of this panel, I've spent much of my summer playing…
FaceBook: A Hotel California?
Robin forwarded an article called How Sticky Is Membership on FaceBook? Just Try Breaking Free from the New York Times. Of course, because I'm completely addicted to FaceBook, my first…
Mob Wars
I have recently been playing Mob Wars on FB. I started because Ann and Liz both invited me to be part of their mobs. I nearly stopped playing after Thanksgiving…
Parking Wars
Earlier this month, I was out for drinks with colleagues. Most of us are friends on FaceBook as well as in real life. A new colleague, Marylena, mentioned that one…
We ARE Telling Stories
As I suggested in a previous post I don't understand why FaceBook calls each status update a story. I said that if we were to consider each update a plot…
Hamlet (The FaceBook News Feed Edition)
FaceBook is changing how we view and think about many aspects of our lives, including literature. As an example (from McSweeney's), here is Sarah Schmelling's version of Hamlet, written in…
FaceBook Revisited
In honor of the recent release of the remake of Brideshead Revisited, I thought it might be interesting to revisit FaceBook. I've been using FaceBook for nearly a month now…
We’re Not Telling Stories
One of the aspects of game analysis that my students struggle with has to do with the dramatic elements of a game. According to the text that I use in…
Non-FaceBook Friends, Beware
Pat sent me this article from the New York Times. So if you're a non-FaceBook friend of mine and I don't return your phone call, I hope you'll understand why.…
Adventures in Time or Why I’m Freaked Out by FaceBook
Because so many of my friends are completely addicted to FaceBook (and threatening not to be friends with me anymore), I decided to join two days ago (less than 36…
