Tag Archives: social software
Social networking detox
After I graduated and took a few days off from school and work, I ended up accidentally taking a break from social networking — having been a distance student for almost two years, more time in front of a computer was something I didn’t look forward to. So I didn’t tweet for days, I [...]
Twitter versus Facebook
I have a simple question: Is Twitter more social than Facebook?
Twitter, on the one hand, only allows you to post brief messages describing what you’re doing. Yet everyone’s talking at once and there’s almost always a lot going on.
Facebook, on the other hand, allows you to describe yourself, list your interests, upload all sorts of media [...]
My Twitter Mosaic
A mosaic of my Twitter followers:
Get your twitter mosaic here.
Make your own mosaic, courtesy of Sxoop Technologies.
Predictions for 2009: SNS Edition
With the end of the year around the corner, here are my predictions for what the social web will look like in 2009. Some of these are kind of “well, duh,” but I think they still deserve to be said.
MySpace will continue to be dominated by socio-commercial interests, a site more for promotion than for [...]
“OurSpace, TheirSpace”
I finally decided to upload one of my conference presentations to SlideShare. This particular presentation (“OurSpace, TheirSpace: Libraries, Young Adults, and Social Networking”) was given at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference in December 2007, and it was essentially the result of a semester’s worth of research about the subject. Please note that the [...]
This is… Facebook?
Now here’s an interesting use of social networking software. Apparently members of a particular Facebook group — numbering close to 30,000 — jotted “THIS IS SPARTA” in the essay portion of their AP Literature exam books and then crossed it out (as all test-takers are instructed when they don’t want something they’ve written to be [...]