I often wonder how many writers will never take the effort to write long form prose because their desire to tell a story is satisfied by microblogging and social media. I noticed my blog and paper journal output have dropped off significantly since I got my Facebook and Twitter accounts. And I haven’t written a …
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Any Friend of My Friend Is a Stranger
Facebook friend recommendations of strangers by mutual friends count: 1: friend of that guy who befriends a lot of pretty girls 2-5: 2nd-order association of my gang; doesn’t hang out at the cafe when I do 6-12: goes to Burning Man/Burning Flipside 13-18: really popular at Burning Man and is an artist or performer or …
In Praise of the Holy Algorithm
It seems that I am, that we are, irredeemably under the thumb of the Facebook algorithm as far as getting any messages out. A week ago, I was having a particularly bad night, emotionally, and I posted a short message that could have been construed as a cry for help. What I got was absolutely …
Ideas For Sale, Cheap
I’m starting to consider Facebook a marketplace of ideas, where every post in my feed is a vendor trying to sell me on their idea. Thing is, I only have so much change in my pocket. I’m basically broke on attention and concern. And here’s everyone, trying to push their trinkets, amulets, pottery, hammers, and …
Cold Burn
Getting a lot of Facebook ads to join several of many “burner” groups. I may be friends with many people in the local burner community, but I am not a burner myself. It’s like Facebook doesn’t even know me. For that much, you also don’t know me. Maybe that’s by design. If so, then I …