facebook – Jamie Todd Rubin

Facebook Distraction Leads to Action

19 Aug 2021 » 3 min read

Part of the reason I don’t sleep well is that I have a tendency to pick up my phone to check something–tomorrow’s weather, blog comments, whatever–and then get distracted by something else. Most often it’s Facebook’s video feature. I’ll tap it and see some video of bloopers from Seinfeld, or a Graham Norton interview. After…

Passive-Aggressive Facebook Posts

09 Apr 2021 » 2 min read

Certain Facebook posts try my patience more than others. In particular is a class of passive-aggressive posts that remind me of the now old-fashioned chain letters that used to sweep through email inboxes. If you are on Facebook at all, I’m sure you’ll recognize these. There are two types of these passive-aggressive posts. The first…

A few thoughts on the “new” Facebook

22 Sep 2011 » 2 min read about social networking

I figured I’d give the latest changes to Facebook a day of use before I commented on them. When I saw the changes early yesterday, they didn’t seem so bad. My biggest problem was trying to understand how they worked. I’m a fairly tech-savvy guy and I don’t think it took me too long. I…

Facebook game requests

24 May 2011 » 2 min read about social networking

For reasons I am not clear on, I have received a flood of game requests for the various games that are played in the Facebook world. To save potential game requesters a little bit of time in the future (and to quote President Obama): “Let me be clear…” I don’t do Facebook games. Please don’t…

Facebook/Twitter integration FAIL: a quick fix?

13 Mar 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

Yesterday my integration between Twitter and Facebook broke once again. This morning, rather than go through the elaborate steps I worked out last time, the IT guy in me rebelled and decided to experiment. Here’s a simply fix that I tried (in intuition) and in this case, it worked for me: Go to Facebook Go…

Twitter-to-Facebook integration FAIL

15 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

Over the last few days, a lot of people have been experiencing a major FAIL relaying tweets from Twitter to Facebook. I experienced this annoying failure as well, and here are the steps I took to fix it two days ago: From Facebook Go to Apps -> Twitter Disconnect the app (click the “Want to…

I don’t do Facebook games

12 Feb 2011 » 1 min read about social networking

Since the number of requests that I receive to participate in various Facebook games seems to be going up, I thought I’d take a brief moment to make my position of Facebook games unequivocally clear: I don’t do Facebook games. This is nothing personal. But if you were to take a look at my schedule,…

Meme for a Friday morning: 44 odd things

20 Feb 2009 » 2 min read

(Posted via LiveJournal) 44 ODD Things about you! If you opened this, FILL IT OUT! Learn 44 things about your friends, and let them learn 44 things about you! Tag the person that sent it plus others. Do you like blue cheese? I’m indifferent. Have you ever been drunk? Yes Do you own a gun?…

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