Last week, I wrote about quitting Facebook for a week. I was interested in seeing if it would make me any more productive or feel disconnected from friends. There were some close calls, but I successfully resisted the urge to login. Why can’t have the same willpower when it comes to cake? It actually got [...]
I joined Facebook in 2004 when it was introduced at UW. For 6.5 years, I’ve probably logged in almost every day, often several times per day. That is the mark of either an extremely powerful website, or an easily addicted consumer. So I’m quitting for a week. It’s not going to be easy, given how [...]
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Facebook is an advertiser’s dream. With nearly 500 million users, there is a truly amazing depth of demographic and psychographic data at their fingertips. Mass market ads can reach more people on any given day than the Super Bowl can only once a year, and tiny niche companies can drill down to the most precise [...]
You’ve probably seen the ads recently about this one girl who sets out to meet her facebook friends in person. I thought it was an interesting idea. It made me think about how true “friendships” can’t be quantified. I have over 400 “friends,” yet many of these people I haven’t seen or spoken to in [...]
