social networking
Online

Social Networks Make You Feel Like You’re Missing Everything

In theory, social networks are supposed to make you feel closer to everybody. Oh, look! Jim is driving a tractor on Instagram. Wow, Sarah just invited me to her baby shower on Facebook. But the truth is social networks do a really good job at making you feel left out too.

10 May 2013

Online

Is LinkedIn The Creepiest Social Network?

This is a post I’ve been wanting to write for a while. In fact, it stems from something I noticed way back in August of last year. After digging for answers and even a couple attempts at contacting their customer support, I’ve concluded that LinkedIn is by far the creepiest social network.

Entertainment

Haha, People Who Read Your Message But Don’t Reply Are The Worst

Before I go off calling everyone who has read receipts on but still doesn’t reply in a timely matter, rude arseholes, please note that I am one of them. But still! I hear it’s verrry annoying for other people to see some messages be read (and for Facebook, it pretty much has to be that way) and quickly replied to while others just toil in obscurity. What is up with that?

9 May 2013

Gadgets

Google Glass Update Adds Google+ Integration

If you’re one of the lucky Google Glass “Explorers” wandering the world barking at your augmented-reality headset prototype get very excited about a new software update that will make talking to nerdy computer spectacles more social. Amongst the additions in the “XE5″ update is Google+ integration, including the ability to comment and +1 posts on Google’s social network.

5 May 2013

Geek Out

The Onion Explains Exactly How Much Your Social Media Cred Is Worth

With some characteristically sharp little jabs, The Onion makes it clear exactly how much all your online friends are worth with this great little clip. And still, I have to admit I’m a little jealous of Wasserman’s follower count. I mean, damn.

4 May 2013

Online

The 14 Types Of Profile Pictures

Your profile picture represents you. You want to convey that you’re fun, interesting, well-travelled, worldly, witty, or any number of likable, desirable qualities. But we’re also really predictable — our profile pictures can be boiled down into 14 specific categories.

3 May 2013

Online

Locked Out Of Your Facebook Account? Trusted Contacts Will Save You

Starting today, Facebook is rolling out a new Trusted Contacts feature under your account security settings. Here, you can pick three to five folks who will have the power to help you when you lock yourself out of your account.

Software

Instagram Finally Adds A Real People Tagging Feature

The Facebookification of Instagram continues today, as the company just added an official feature for tagging people photos. On your profile page, there will be a “Photos of You” section.

30 April 2013

Online

Twitter Should Shut Me Down

In August of 2012 I left my job at a startup in New York City. I was 24. I enrolled in a graduate program at NYU, wanting to study Computer Science and Biology. Two weeks in, one of my professors assigned a homework project that would rapidly turn into a profitable business. The goal of the homework assignment was to design a system that would create a behaviour change in a group of test subjects. The behaviour change that I picked was getting people to follow me on Twitter.

27 April 2013

Online

Stop Worrying, Your Internet Past Is Not Embarrassing

There’s something on the internet that you desperately want to keep everyone from seeing. Something you’re deeply embarrassed of. That would show all your friends how you’re not actually as smart and fashionable and ironically self-aware as you pretend to be. And you really ought to get over it.

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