Tag: social media

  • Twitter Meltdown, Mastodon, and the End of Social Media (for Me)?

    13 Nov 2022 » 7 min read

    I Sometime in 1993 or early 1994 I had this great idea for a science fiction story: what if television suddenly went away? All of the devices across the globe suddenly stopped working for no explainable reason. No one could figure it out. What would it do to society? According to my battered copy of…

  • 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…