Posts Tagged ‘ social media ’

What’s going on in Facebook this week?  I noted one other Facebook trend I hadn’t remarked on before, something I refer to as scrumping.  A former boss of mine, an Indian-British guy, told us about “scrumping” when he was a feckless youth in England.  He and friends would dare each other to steal apples from [...]

I am a Facebook Ho, self-defined as someone with >500 Facebook friends.  Most of the status updates I see fall into the following categories:  proud parenting moments, political rants, food talk, Stuart Smalley style affirmations, and a few things actually worth reading. What are your friends saying this week?  Here are a few comments from [...]

This afternoon I was eavesdropping on a conversation between a woman of a certain age and a man of her generation. They were discussing social media, in particular: Facebook. The woman was explaining her reasoning for refusing her friends’ and children’s requests to get a FB account. She ridiculed a particular status she had read [...]