Facebook really has become the primary social space online. Stepping out of Facebook is like going on a retreat in some distant land with no link to the rest of the world.
Tag archives: social
The Mastodon in the room
I read Patrick Hogan’s post about Mastodon titled “Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again” last week. It prompted me to install a Mastodon app on my phone again, and take another look.
Why do you use Twitter?
I've been thinking about why I use Twitter for about as long as I've been using Twitter and I don't have any real answers yet. That said, it's a conversation worth having.
Not just another WordPress vs everything else
I love that there are so many options for people who want to publish their words online these days. I was researching a topic for a blog post for the imonomy blog (I am employed by imonomy as a Content Marketing Specialist) and my colleague, Shirley Pattison (read her stuff, she writes about fascinating topics),…
Simplifying the crowded messaging space
The messaging space seems to be the antithesis of email. Where email works using common protocols and a variety of email applications that all support them, messaging apps rarely talk to each other and basically function in silos. The messaging space is a surprisingly tricky one to dominate but a few of the services are…
Should Path be less, not more?
Lauren Hockenson has a great article on GigaOm about the new Path releases titled "Once again, Path proves why it has been trendy but not trend-setting". Here is a snippet: The issue with Path is that it can’t resist hopping on a new social trend. The app takes cues from practically every other social media…
Blogging 2.0 – when your blog becomes your social hub
I started thinking about blogs in a social context. Blogs like this one have become personal hubs where we share our ideas, passions and more.
Google+ fundamentally isn't about social or people
I’m reading Om Malik’s interesting article titled “One diabetic’s take on Google’s Smart Contact Lenses” and his assessment of Google+ stood out for me: Google+, their social network, is a fail because it fundamentally isn’t social or about people — it is an effort to solve Google’s need for social data for better advertising using…