Goodbye Facebook, it's been nice...
My Facebook header... 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 u…
Tagged: social-media
Facebook makes you miserable...
I came across this item a few days ago - the hardly surprising revelation thatlurking around on Facebook makes you miserable. Although 'lurking' - looking at social media without interacting with any…
When unfriending is the friendly thing to do
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 availab…
Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them
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…
Due Diligence....
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…
FOMO and FOHMO
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 o…
Hope springs eternal...
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' …
The Ring of Gyges and the cat's backside
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 intellige…
Denver and the progressive knee jerk point-scoring...
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…
And Facebook carries on downwards....
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' associate…