Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 3, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 3, 2023

It Feels Like Facebook Punted on Pages

It Feels Like Facebook Punted on Pages

So, when I saw that Facebook was going to start letting people create multiple profiles and that it was really targeted toward people with different interests, or small business owners and freelancers who wanted a Facebook presence for their work apart from their personal profile, I immediately thought, isn’t that what Pages were for? Isn’t that exactly what Pages were promoted as being, a place for the “brand” apart from your personal profile? And isn’t this just a tacit acknowledgment that, outside of huge corporate brands, Facebook broke Pages for everyone else?

Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 13, 2022

Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 13, 2022

Linked: Why Threats from QR Codes are Flourishing
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Linked: Why Threats from QR Codes are Flourishing

I have noticed this, haven’t you? Suddenly, QR codes are everywhere: “The COVID-19 pandemic has helped fuel the QR code renaissance. The glory of QR codes is you don’t need to touch anything apart from your own smartphone to use them. It is a quick and easy contactless system—and everybody is already carrying a suitable…