Posts Tagged ‘tumblr’
one million strong for Facebook sucking! »
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Three times already, I’ve been encouraged to enable the new “Timeline” feature on Facebook. I won’t, but I know enough about it that I’m sure it’ll totally set some people off.
With each redesign (can we call them that?) of Facebook, there’s outrage, but why? We use their product, it’s not our Facebook. It’s our speck of collected statuses in a vast, vast, vast wasteland of other collected statuses.
We’ve changed the definition of “ownership” in the digital space, haven’t we? We use Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr to share our thoughts, sure, but then those thoughts aren’t really ours anymore, right? (more…)
guilty pleasure #4821: »
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Thanks to Ben (@panchomill) I’m now quasi-addicted to something I should hate, despise or loathe. I’m not sure how it happened. Still, watch the video below and see if you aren’t attracted to the vacuous drivel:
You liked it didn’t you? It’s probably why anyone watched anything on VH1 since 2002 (save I Love [insert decade], which is awesome). The banter between Kristen, Jackie and Alisa is intoxicating in its emptiness. Plus, they’re social media sluts like myself.
Oh. And on that note… I’m now on Vimeo (videos to come, maybe). It works through Tumblr and it’s about time I had something outside of YouTube or the Book to load video into. (Talk about an impossible justification; I started sweating from the strain half through that sentence.)