Tag: Facebook
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My Time on the Internet
Just a few days ago I deleted my last remaining social media account – well almost, more on that later* – leaving this blog/website as pretty much the defacto ‘source of me’ on the internet. That got me thinking back to how long I’ve been ‘on the internet’ so I tried to put together a…
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Good v. Evil
Posted in: BikesWent for a bike ride. Posted a few words on Instagram about it: Went for a bike ride with @spoke_n_words today. I can’t tell you everything we talked about – Instagram limits us to 2200 characters. I just used up 115. We talked about how that is part of the struggle today. That there’s so much to…
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Facebook Lets You See All the Data Collected on You
Posted in: The Internet & MediaFacebook has launched a new tool to let you see all the data that’s been collected on you both on – and interestingly enough – off the platform. Facebook knows what you’re doing on other sites and in real life. This tool lets you see what it knows about you. I haven’t had a personal…
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Facebook Co-Founder Says Break It Up
Posted in: The Internet & MediaFacebook co-founder Chris Hughes has written an interesting opinion piece over at the New York Times, “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook”. I’ve been off Facebook for over a year now and about six months ago stopped using Instagram and Messenger. While I had my own issues and struggles with social media use affecting my…
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They Got Instagram Now, Too
Posted in: The Internet & MediaBack when I started dumping my social media accounts – for various reasons – the one I held on to the longest, almost a year longer than the others, was Instagram. I liked that it was primarily photo based and that seemed to invite people to post a different kind of content. There was little…
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‘Light ‘ Phone Experiment Observations
So back in my post about the Light Phone 2 – I decided to give it a go with setting up my iPhone as much like a Light Phone 2 as possible and give it 2 weeks. Visit my first post to see what I stripped the phone down to. Here’s some observations. Day Two…