Social Media | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:02:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Goodbye Facebook, it’s been nice… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2026/01/goodbye-facebook-its-been-nice/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:02:31 +0000 https://joepritchard.me.uk/?p=8492 Have you heard of ‘Enshittification’? It’s a concept created by Cory Doctorow, and it’s summed up on Google as: …the three-stage decline of online platforms: first attracting users with good service, then prioritizing business customers by degrading user experience, and finally extracting maximum value from everyone for shareholder profit, leading to unusable, value-sapped services like […]

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]]> Facebook makes you miserable… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2017/01/facebook-makes-you-miserable/ Sun, 01 Jan 2017 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7890 I came across this item a few days ago – the hardly surprising revelation that lurking around on Facebook makes you miserable.  Although ‘lurking’ – looking at social media without interacting with anyone – is specifically mentioned, social media in general get’s a bit of a hammering. This isn’t anything new, of course – I […]

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]]> When unfriending is the friendly thing to do https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/12/when-unfriending-is-the-friendly-thing-to-do/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:00:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7837 I’m not a great social media junkie; I think I have a Tumblr account, somewhere.  I don’t have an Instagram account or use Reddit, and whilst Blackberry Messenger is (apparently) installed and available on my Blackberry I don’t have anyone to talk to on it except charming young ladies who seem to be short of […]

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]]> Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/dandelion-breaks-and-how-to-avoid-them/ Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:08:33 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1586 I have always been a great fan of Berke Breathed’s cartoon strip ‘Bloom County’. For those of you whose life is as yet incomplete, lacking reporting from the strange world of Bloom County, I refer you to https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/ where the current ongoing daily adventures of the characters can be found. Originally Bloom County stopped being published […]

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]]> Due Diligence…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/due-diligence/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:34:13 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7812 My reading habits – OK, I tend to read everything that’s put in front of me, from books to the backs of toothpaste tubes – lead me in to all sorts of places.  As part of my daily spiritual development I often read essays / blog posts from a number of Christian websites, and today […]

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]]> FOMO and FOHMO https://joepritchard.me.uk/2016/11/fomo-and-fohmo/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:49:46 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7775 As always, late to the picnic, but I recently encountered the acronymn FOMO. It’s not a new type of washing powder, but short for Fear Of Missing Out.  It’s defined in Wikipedia as : Fear of missing out or FoMO is “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is […]

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]]> Hope springs eternal… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2015/11/hope-springs-eternal/ Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:43:18 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=7795 One of my favourite films is ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. There are a number of reasons for this – one is that I’m a big fan of the novella it’s based on – ‘Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption’ by Stephen King. The story was originally published in a book of 4 stories called ‘Different Seasons’. […]

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]]> The Ring of Gyges and the cat’s backside https://joepritchard.me.uk/2015/10/the-ring-of-gyges/ Mon, 05 Oct 2015 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1573 The Ring of Gyges is a magic ring discussed by the philosopher Plato in his Republic. It granted the wearer the gift of invisibility, and was used by plato to explore what would happen if an intelligent,  moral and upstanding man were to be given this gift.  After all, he’d be able to go anywhere, […]

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]]> Denver and the progressive knee jerk point-scoring… https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/07/denver-and-the-progressive-knee-jerk-point-scoring/ Sat, 21 Jul 2012 06:48:50 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1541 I rarely write about serious stuff like mass murders here on this blog.  It’s not that I don’t care, it’s just that I regard it as pompous and pretentious for me to pontificate on the bleedin’ obvious disasters that befall this world unless I’m somehow involved. The Aurora cinema shooting is just another tragedy in […]

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]]> And Facebook carries on downwards…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2012/05/and-facebook-carries-on-downwards/ Wed, 23 May 2012 07:25:14 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1499 In my last post I questioned the value given to Facebook in their IPO.  It became clear at the close of first day trading that things hadn’t gone according to plan; the usual ‘Day One Spike’ associated with high profile technology IPOs just didn’t happen, and I have a feeling that the only reason that […]

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