One of my favorite tools for keeping Facebook from becoming a frustrating mess is going away. “Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds sometime today, according to a message posted in the Facebook app. The feature allowed users to scroll through only those posts from one of their designated friend lists — for example, family,…
The other day, as I was perusing various news sources, I happened upon back to back articles from Psychology Today. Now at first glimpse these articles might not seem related, but I think they are. Let me start by talking about Facebook though. Way back in his Harvard days, Mark Zuckerberg, the legend holds, started…
On Saturday, as I drove home from Houston I made a quick stop at Arby’s to grab a couple of roast beef sandwiches to eat in the car. On Saturday night, Facebook showed me an Arby’s ad. I didn’t mention going to Arby’s on social media, didn’t check in online, didn’t connect to their wifi,…
This is clearly true. “Facebook has created a centrally designed internet. It’s a lamer, shittier looking internet. It’s just not as cool as an internet that is a big, chaotic space filled with tons of independently operating websites who are able to make a living because they make something cool that people want to see.”…
If you haven’t seen the announcement: Seems to me that trying to follow a blog, or other website by following their Facebook page just got about impossible. As a page owner, it also seems to me that spending much time trying to share my content on Facebook also just got about pointless. It’s clear, despite…
Recently, I’m sure that many of us have read various articles about how Facebook, Google and other social platform algorithms are being manipulated by media companies, Russians, trolls, government agencies, and so on in one mass effort to manipulate us all to do one thing or another. There have been numerous calls for legislation, censorship,…