Tag: social media
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A Generation Has to Die
I don’t even remember what I was listening to, but they were talking about progress and the future. I’m sure it was social media related and how old habits continue to live on. As much as social media is taking over and as many people as there are using it…
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Facebook Anxiety
anx·i·e·ty n. pl. anx·i·e·ties 1. a. A state of uneasiness and apprehension, as about future uncertainties. b. A cause of anxiety: For some people, air travel is a real anxiety. 2. Psychiatry A state of apprehension, uncertainty, and fear resulting from the anticipation of a realistic or fantasized threatening event…
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Cutting Things
I’ve been reading about how individuals are able to streamline their lives by cutting things. For instance, I have spent an hour writing an e mail. I write out my whole life story, but if you follow my Twitter stream (@Lemness) or friend me on Facebook, they can pretty much…
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Your Inner Narcissism
Studies have shown that Generation Y uses social media for self-promotion, narcissism, and attention seeking. Here’s the article. It’s not just the Gen Y crowd. It’s every generation. It’s everybody on social media. Yes, we do use it to reconnect and get information. But social media really taps into our…
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Identity Consistency
I just read an article on Mashable about how you can maintain some consistency on your online identities. Here‘s the article. As the article says, sometimes you end up with multiple online identities which need a sense of consistency across the different platforms. I would agree with the article in…
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Google Me
Not Google Lem Usita, but “Google Me.” This is Google’s next social network. They’ve tried a few, but this is going to be the Facebook-killer. It could happen. Honestly, they know more about you than you might even know yourself. Orkut didn’t quite work. They are saying that it’s going…
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Random Image
Do you have a Google Reader? Have you ever tried google.com/reader/play? Here is an image that I saw on there, and I had to share it. What do you think?
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LOST Apologist
I read that in a tweet and there was a video that accompanied the tweet. It had to do with all of these fans of Lost that try to figure out the story and the mythology behind it. It has definitely propelled the story forward. There are so many websites…
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Speak Into My Drive
Today, DC and I drove from the Bay Area, through Monterey and Carmel by the Sea, and on to Morro Bay. I tweeted/status updated about our drive today and I had friends speak into my drive. I had friends from the Bay Area tell us where we should eat. We…
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Complain About Free
I was listening to a podcast, and they brought up a great point. With all of the things that Facebook is doing with opt out privacy and Twitter with their ad model – there’s alot of complaining going on with a free service that provide. You can sign up for…
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Social Media and Volcanoes
Do a search for this. The ash from the Icelandic volcano has over taken Europe. Many of the airports in Europe have closed. People that are stranded in Europe are using social media to catch rides and find people that will help them. There are facebook groups and hash tags that are…
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Social Media in the Newsroom
Watching the news drives me crazy – well, maybe not the whole time, but typically when they have those news stories that are the filler stories. You know – dancing cats or lasagna recipes – that’s not news. What drives me even more bonkers is when the news uses social…