Not Selling Through Facebook
If you want a prime example of how not to react to bad press, to comments and Tweets, Reddit or elsewhere, this is it: Restaurant Meltdown. I don’t know how many Internet gurus will go ape over this, but there will be quite a few. After all, everyone in their right mind tells businesses to [...]
Goodbye Facebook, Again?
Waking up to texts and mails in the morning is a good thing. Waking up to a mail from Facebook is, as you can guess, quite the opposite. Dear Viktoria, Your Facebook account was recently logged into from a computer, mobile device or other location you’ve never used before. For your protection, we’ve temporarily locked [...]
It’s Not Just Yahoo!
Glancing through some of the links people add to their Facebook pages I came across a strange phenomenon: articles linked with photographs which don’t match. This seems to happen more with Facebook than any other linking website, where a photograph from the same page as a linked article is picked out, seemingly at random. I’ve [...]
Facebook Makes You Eat Crap
Fine, there are many people who are against Facebook, and many who are strongly in favor of it. Both sides have their reasons and both sides are happy with their decisions. And we all know that Facebook is not only addictive but that it can destroy real social lives by keeping people glued to their [...]
Not The Best Fake Profile In The World
A friend of mine on Facebook – yes, I do still have a few good connections there – is being subjected to an attack. His profile has been highlighted on the Timeline of someone calling themselves Ashley Jensen with a demand for all of her friends to report him as a fake. The fact that [...]
Discoveries
It is strange the way things seem to work, how something you have thought or written comes back at a later date to either haunt you or, in the case, to bring new light to an interesting subject. This time it is a little bit of information, and a real surprise. Way, way back in [...]
Stumbling Through Life Unseen
I don’t know how many accidents have been reported – people wandering out into traffic, falling down open holes, stumbling off cliffs or, recently, stepping into an open canal – happening to those whose attention is diverted. By diverted I don’t necessarily mean someone walking down the street with their jaw across their knees because [...]
Shock, Horror Facebook Friends Bought!
The title probably says it all, one of the popular (read gutter) press publications in Germany has just discovered that some so-called celebrities have ‘friends’ on their Facebook pages who have been paid to be there. A front page story today, taking up half of the page with thick headlines, a photograph and about two [...]
Facebook Limits Freedom Of Conversation
The latest security update is there, and the beginning of another controversy for Facebook. For anyone who is a Facebook user, and I will admit to using it although I much, much prefer Google Plus, these changes which are meant to promote transparency for you, the user, effectively limit your ability to communicate with other [...]
Lost Followers
Hard to believe, but for some people out there, the Internet is the real world. I sometimes get the impression that what happens in what I call real Life, the interaction with living people face-to-face and all it entails, is something which rather more than a handful of people cannot cope with, have removed themselves [...]
Land Of The Free
The chances are you’re not all that interested in political themes, at least, not if you’re a really regular reader of this blog! According to Alexa you’re likely to be female, between the ages of 55 and 64 with a college education and viewing from home. A pinch of salt in that, if you please! [...]
Following The Trend
If you’re going to do it, do it right. Well, that’s the idea, but it isn’t always possible. Sometimes you just have to improvise, sometimes things don’t turn out quite the way that you expected or wanted. Sometimes you’re trying to keep up with one or two fashions and they don’t quite fit together. Imagine [...]
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