Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Friendster

  • The Social Media Evolution

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    The Make Me Smart Podcast episode 96: Do it for the ‘gram had an interesting quip that Instagram was what the Facebook News Feed was before it got corrupted by ads and political arguments: the trivialities of our daily lives. All social networks became popular because of trivialities. “What’s on your mind?” THAT is what…

  • 18th Anniversary of Blogging

    Here is my first blog post from 18 years ago, which makes it as old as a legal adult. Wow… Two Footballs I got started at a place called Diaryland. A friend, Lacey, had started using it. Back in those days, I was up for trying pretty much anything geeky friends were doing. Blogging was…

  • Social Ghost Archetypes

    I met Allie for the second time at a birthday party. The birthday girl is a Social Tech Ghost. Allie is a Pseudonym Surfer and former Dunbarian. Another person at the party is an Infrequent Checker. I decided these remain legitimate strategies to keep from getting drawn into spending too much time online. Since I like…

  • Friendster Blogs

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    I learned about Friendster’s new blogs through an article at The Social Software Weblog. It gave me a reason to look at Friendster again. I have not gotten any friend requests or other messages so it kind of fell off my radar.