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Tag: Facebook

  • Twitter Doesn’t Make Sense

    ….for those that do not use it.  I know a few people that just don’t understand Twitter or Facebook.  I know of a few people that refuse to use it because they just do not understand it.  It’s one of those counter-intuitive things.  It is useless unless you use it. …

  • Your Facebook Doppelganger

    Or your “celebrity-look-a-like” picture tells me so much about you. It is identity leakage or personality leakage, and it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There are a few pictures that really, really look like the person. I mean, it’s uncanny. The pictures really work for them. Most of the pictures…

  • You and the Company That You Keep

    We’ve heard it growing up. We will become like the company that we keep. Inherent in identity formation is this idea of identity construction, and it’d be nice if the only type was self-construction; where I decided who I want to become. But don’t underestimate the power of a socially-constructed…

  • Facebook and Outlook

    There was a time when I would feel guilty that Facebook was open on my computer at work.  There was a time when Facebook was mainly for fun and play. These days, it’s just as much a professional communication tool as my Outlook.  I actually have both open at the…

  • The Screen is Just a Portal

    I was talking with a friend about identity formation.  They had asked if I could help them with their Facebook fantasies – they wanted me to help them with their identities online.  It was like Facebook had brought about some fantasies – of who knows what, but Facebook was the…

  • Comments-ation

    A conversation that you have with a bunch of people – using just comments.  It’s not like you’re all in the room.  It’s not like you’re face to face, but you’re definitely having a conversation with people – using just comments. I just made it up in my last post.…

  • The Hairstyle Changes, but the People Don’t

    I recently had a conversation on Facebook.  Okay, so maybe it wasn’t a conversation – more a comments-ation – where everyone’s talking to each other, but through comments. We were commenting on a picture that was taken 18 years ago.  I was 18 at the time.  It was posted on…

  • When to Not Look at Facebook

    I want to start a new series of posts – I want to call it When to Not Look at Facebook.  I’m not sure how many of these I can come up with, but here’s the first one. When you want to watch the game at night and you don’t…

  • Facebook = Missions

    You don’t have to be in another country to do missions.  I just went to a conference on missions and it drove me absolutely nuts to hear speakers talk about it is this thing that somehow is in the future; it is this thing that happens in another country; it…