Tag: social media
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Scholarship By Metrics
Interesting article by Justin E.H. Smith on How Social Media Imperils Scholarship. It’s a long article, but well worth reading. A few highlights: Eventually, those who do research simply out of love of knowledge might find it preferable to present their findings anonymously and gratuitously as Wikipedia editors rather than as members of the afflicted…
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Facebook D Day
Posted in: The Internet & MediaI think today may be the day that my Facebook account dies. I say I think, because I’m not really sure. I think Facebook wants it that way. When you go to delete your account, they say it will take effect within 14 days, but it may be sooner – or maybe later? My past…
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Fack’s Facebook Facts 3
Posted in: The Internet & Media“Facebook is not thriving for me.” Dave Winer, considered the father of blogging, podcasting and RSS, thinks Facebook may be dying. At least for him anyway. I don’t know that I would disagree. It certainly lost it’s lustre for me. Ages 25 to 34, at 29.7% of users, is the most common age demographic. (Source:Emarketer 2012)…
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Fack’s Facebook Facts 2
Posted in: The Internet & MediaMashable: Facebook Admits to as Many as 270 Million Fake/Clone Accounts “The social network upped its estimate of the portion of fake accounts from 2 to 3 percent and the number of duplicates from 6 to 10 percent, Business Insider first reported. That means that as many as 270 million of the platform’s 2.1-billion-strong user…
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Fack’s Facebook Facts 1
Posted in: The Internet & MediaBusiness Insider: What It’s Really Like to Work At Facebook Facebook employs 23,165 people, worldwide* I thought as my countdown to dumping Facebook, I’d share some interesting facts. The two people interviewed in the attached article paint it as a great place to work and it was recently voted as such. As someone who has…
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Au Revoir, Facebook.
Posted in: The Internet & MediaI’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…