Kent Fackenthall

Tag: Facebook

  • Au Revoir, Facebook.

    Au Revoir, Facebook.

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    I’ve deactivated it for time periods before, but going full monty this time. Over the past few months I’ve pretty much jumped off all the social medias, including the Plus here, but have decided to gradually come back to some, in a more curated fashion. Found overall that spending less time in front of screens…

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  • The Red Island Ripper

    The Red Island Ripper

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    In just over a week I will try, along with some other crazy mofos, to ride my bike across Prince Edward Island, along the Confederation Trail. 297kms. In one day. It will be both the farthest I’ve ever ridden in one ride and the longest I’ve ever been on a bike. The trail itself is…

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  • Why Facebook Algorithms Are Like Gambling

    Why Facebook Algorithms Are Like Gambling

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    I used to hate the random postiness Facebook algorithms used to fill my feed and the fact that it changed every time I viewed it. Now I enjoy it. It’s the social media equivalent of pulling the arm on a slot machine. It’s your online VLT. You can come up short or hit the jackpot each…

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  • Why you should consider Google+. Again.

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    I’ve been having lots of conversations with people lately regarding their trust – or lack thereof – of Facebook/Instagram and their use/intentions with regards to your content and data. I’ve always maintained that posting info on ANY service on the internet is never going to be 100% guaranteed, but how a company conducts itself ethically,…

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  • Google+ Only August

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    I am the mad scientist of social media. Back at the end of July, in another one of my social media experiments, I’d sort of made a resolution to myself to only use only Google+ in August and see what it got me. I didn’t really tell anyone about it, just sort of did it.…

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  • Google+ Circles, Good – Facebook Lists, Bad.

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    For those of you that have never checked it out, one of the (multitude of) things that Google+ does infinitely better than Facebook is allow you to manage your streams and the content in them using ‘Circles’. Facebook has ‘Lists’ that you can create to sort people into categories. This works ok. Their mechanism/UI for…

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