Pages Tagged “Facebook”
Tech Tips
- Facebook Page Flagged for… domain_placeholder.com? Probably not! (Obsolete) Facebook sent out a suspension notice with placeholder names by mistake.
- What’s in Your Social Media Archive? I checked out what you get when you export your content from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and Mastodon, with an eye for both private archives and migrating to your own site.
Blog Posts
- Privacy and Trust: Threads, Twitter and the Fediverse
Privacy has many layers. Keeping cloud files from leaking to another account is one layer. Not data-mining those files is another entirely!
- Detweeting (and More)
Not that I’ve been particularly active on Twitter for quite a while now, but the way things have gotten, especially under its new owner, I decided it was finally time to go. I haven’t deleted my main account (yet), but I’ve deleted most of my tweet history, and the accounts I used for side projects, […]
- The 2022 Social Media Experience
The 2022 update: What it’s like to use Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Mastodon, Pixelfed and Instagram now.
- Tech Giants’ Core Strategies
The Verge makes an interesting point about Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda: for the most part, Microsoft doesn’t care what hardware you run their stuff on, they just want you to buy the software. So it’s less likely to be about trying to gain Xbox exclusives and more likely to be about getting more games for […]
- Facebook: Promoting Lies for Cash
Facebook still insists it’s totally OK for them to help politicians lie to you for $$$. Not just misleading ads, or controversial opinions, or varying interpretations, but outright lies. Totally fine with it! Facebook says they don’t want to be in the business of fact-checking, but they have policies against false commercial advertising. Truth in […]
- Facebook-Forced “Business Pages”
Anyone familiar with what Facebook Pages considers to be a âbusiness?â Facebook decided to group my âbusiness pagesâ (two blogs, neither of which is a business, one of which I had already marked for deletion a few days ago) into a âbusiness account.â I thought maybe theyâd flattened their definitions, but another page (for a […]
- Mixed Feelings: Facebook Has Shut Down (Some) Auto-Posting
I have mixed feelings on Facebook closing down automated posts to personal* profiles. It might cut down on spam, and it will lead to better descriptions on link posts, but it also locks you further into their silo. You can still write elsewhere and link back to it on Facebook, but you can’t use WordPress […]
- More on Facebook Re-Engagement: Accidental Post by SMS!
Facebook has offered post-by-SMS for ages. They also offer 2FA-by-SMS…from the same number. And they’ve started sending re-engagement notices…from the same number. What could possibly go wrong?
- Link Sharing and Source Trails
I read a lot of articles in one of two ways: Open a bunch of tabs and then read them one at a time Save a bunch of interesting-looking stories to Pocket and then read them one at a time So by the time I’ve decided to share a link to the story on Facebook […]
- Facebook Desperately Wants You Back!
Sometimes I’ll go a week or two without logging into Facebook. It doesn’t take very long before they start sending me reminders trying to bring me back. “See Alice’s message and other notifications you’ve missed” “Bob updated their status” “Carol posted a photo” It’s only been since the weekend and Facebook has sent me two […]
- Personas and Facets of Online Identity
Back in the day, @SpeedForceOrg was my comics fan persona on Twitter, as well as the newsfeed for the Flash blog. As more people joined me there, that seemed less appropriate and it became just the newsfeed/editorial voice. I find myself replying with my main account account to people I follow on the other. Which […]
- Broadcasting “Likes”
I figured out exactly what bugs me about Twitter & Facebook putting friends’ Likes in the timeline.
- Why am I still blogging? (And why about this stuff?)
This blog has been around 15 years. Social media has mostly moved on, to silos like Facebook and Twitter. People don’t follow random personal blogs. Topic-focused sites are what people actually read, and even that mainly following links from silos. Meanwhile there are so many major things going on that make the things I post […]
- What makes online posts feel “permanent?”
Facebook is testing a feature to make their posts less permanent, but they already feel ephemeral (even though they aren’t). My thoughts on why that is.
- I “Liked” Twitter Favorites
It shouldnââ¬â¢t make any difference that Twitter renamed FavoritesâË⦠as Likesââ¢Â¥. Itââ¬â¢s a coat of paint. But labels do matter.
- What’s Wrong With Facebook Updating Itself on Android?
Imagine a car recall, except instead of getting a notice from the manufacturer, you hear a noise in your garage and find someone messing with your car.
- Who Owns Your Online Profile? Thoughts on Instagram, Facebook, and Blogging
When you live your online life through a social network, you give up control. If Facebook is no longer around 10 years from now, what happens to all your photos?
- Gooey Steak?
Double truncation failure. Steak is good when…A. With shrimp. B. On the 2 for $20 men. C. When isn’t steak goo?
- Facebook Sync Messes Up Users’ Address Books
Fury after Facebook messes up smartphone users’ address books: Remember how Facebook sneakily changed your default email address to @facebook.com? … Some smartphone users…are reporting that their on-phone address books have been silently updated to make @facebook.com email addresses the default way to send a message to their contacts.Graham Cluley at Sophos The lesson: Whenever […]
- Delivery Confirmed…Somewhere
I’ve lost some confidence in USPS’s delivery confirmation service. Even though we put mail delivery on hold while we were on vacation, USPS claims that delivered a package at 4:08pm on Saturday. So, either they didn’t honor the mail hold and delivered it…in which case who knows where it is now…or they did honor the […]
- Recent Links: Social Networking
Linkblogging: How long do links last? What’s the future of Delicious? How quickly can you cross-post? Why does this site need to post to Twitter under my name?
- Facebook, or Firehose?
Between the ticker and the plans to auto-share even more activity on the timeline, I’m beginning to think that Facebook should call itself Firehose instead. I’m tempted to ask, “Who the hell wants this?” but based on past experience, that usually means I’m just not in the target audience. TechCrunch | Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook […]
- Protecting Firefox from Farmville
Firefox has been testing a new release that detects and closes crashed plugins (instead of letting them crash Firefox entirely) for several months, carefully making sure everything was working before they released Firefox 3.6.4 last week. Within days, they released an update. I couldn’t imagine what they might have missed in all the beta testing. Katie […]
- Links: Doomed Data, Web Services, WTF Textbook Questions & More
An experiment: I’ve modified* Twitter Tools to create digest posts as drafts instead of publishing immediately. That gives me a chance to edit a week’s worth of random thoughts and links down to the interesting stuff, clean things up a bit, expand things that could use more detail, and remind myself of items that I […]
- Bad Polls
Facebook polls need a “This is BS” option. Too many are based on false premises or are of the “Threat or Menace?” variety. ð
- Status, Android C&D and Marketing
Spam subject: “Your decent watch will upgrade your status.” You mean I won’t need my phone to update Facebook? AWESOME! WTF? Google C&Ds Android modder Cyanogen. Isn’t it supposed to be licensed open-source in the first place? The cease-and-desist order is about Google’s apps (Maps, Gmail, etc.) that are pre-installed, not about the operating system […]
- Social Bots
Amazing how many “people” are sending Facebook messages to the postmaster account, offering helpful links to resources for *ahem* improving uptime. On a related note: Google’s Social Graph thinks I own Cute Overload. It seems to treat all LiveJournal syndication feeds as one profile, and I linked to K2R’s LJ feed with XFN.
- The REAL Problem with Twitter
Twitter asks its users the wrong question, and it’s outgrowing the limitations of SMS messages.
- Friends or Followers: Social Networking Terminology from LiveJournal to Facebook to Twitter
Since LiveJournal’s debut, social networks have expanded the meaning of ‘friend.’ What does it imply to have friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter?
- Twittering
I’ve been using Twitter for a couple of weeks as an additional update channel and sort of an adjunct to my blog, Speed Force (you can follow it at @SpeedForceOrg), and I’ve actually realized that yes, there is a point to it. It’s good for the random thought that only takes a sentence or two, […]