social media

Frank Chimero: “It’s surprising how quickly we consented to reading everything through streams and algorithms, and how ill-equipped we are to emotionally manage it. Everything is slotted alongside anything else, so it is natural to feel like everything is connected, but nothing in the world fits together. We all know how streams and advertising illicit […]

Posted on 2 January 2020 and filed under links, outbound, social media

“Follow us on Facebook!”

Posted on 24 March 2018 and filed under media, social media, technology

“It seems as if you are never ‘hard core’ enoughfor YouTube’s recommendation algorithm.”

Posted on 12 March 2018 and filed under links, media, social media

I’ve become too dependent on Twitter to expose me to smart people and smart writing.

Posted on 24 February 2018 and filed under blogging, social media, technology

I’ve seen a few comparisons lately of Facebook to smoking, as if it’s something that experts agree is bad for your health and we really should give up. But I think it’s more like a eating factory-farmed meat. You have the general sense that it’s bad, and if you really looked into how it gets […]

Posted on 13 February 2018 and filed under small, social media, thoughts

This is a detailed read of Facebook’s reckoning with foreign powers, powers of abuse and power over media and politics. In the end I’m left asking a question I saw posed elsewhere recently: is it ethical to use Facebook?

Posted on 12 February 2018 and filed under journalism, links, media, outbound, small, social media

”To be clear, it’s not brave to quit Twitter, or righteous (I’m still on Facebook, which is just a differently shaped moral stockyard), or noteworthy. Quitting Twitter is just a thing that you can do. I mention it only because there was a time when I didn’t think it was a thing that I could do, and then I did it, and now my life is better.”

Posted on 6 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Alex Hern: ”Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t use Facebook like you or me. The 33-year-old chief executive has a team of 12 moderators dedicated to deleting comments and spam from his page, according to Bloomberg. He has a ‘handful’ of employees who help him write his posts and speeches and a number of professional photographers who take […]

Posted on 5 February 2018 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

Some thoughts on being blocked on Twitter (spoiler: it’s fine).

Posted on 23 January 2018 and filed under articles, big, main, social media

and I recommend it but also I’ve realized Facebook is kind of terrible.

Posted on 10 September 2017 and filed under main, social media

Twitter #MeetScienceTwitter

Posted on 10 June 2017 and filed under articles, main, social media

TL;DR: I’ve made a new Facebook profile designed from the ground-up to be an effective tool for me to use as a journalist.

Posted on 29 April 2017 and filed under articles, comments, journalism, main, social media

A Twitter feature I’ve wanted to see for a long time is the ability to geo-tag (assign a location) to my tweet and have it only be posted to people’s streams who are in that location.

Posted on 21 April 2016 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media

“We cannot like refugee kids wading among dead bodies. And we cannot directly tell Facebook’s algorithm that we still care about this, or find it important.”

Posted on 19 August 2015 and filed under links, outbound, social media

“I very much fell into the trap of only being exposed to the voices of men. My blog subscriptions were all to male writers. Those I followed on Twitter were almost all male. I spoke at many conferences, and in every case, the speaker line-up was either almost completely or exclusively male. Those men then amplified other male voices, perpetuating the effect.
“It’s vital, for all our sakes, that we make an effort to change that.”

Posted on 8 April 2015 and filed under links, outbound, small, social media