social networking
The Quiet, Rare Voyeurism of Craigslist Mirror-For-Sale Ads
Remembering a more human time on the internet.
A Google Patent Wants to Help You Be Funny on Facebook
We could be sharing jokes in comic strip form instead of boring old plain text.
Inside the Underground Spam Machine That's Overrunning Social Media
A new report found spam on social networks more than tripled in just the first half of this year—up 355%
How Paris Brown's 'Pikey' Tweets Expose the Modern British Generation Gap
Or why police should never work with children.
Why Is LinkedIn Taunting Users with Pictures of Their Exes?
I am not a big LinkedIn user. But every time I sign in, a weird thing happens.
Groupon, Aaron Swartz, and the Failings of the Second Great Tech Boom
Today, as the second bubble slowly deflates, the network has evolved from curiosity to necessity, and as such is under greater threat than ever before.
The Less Crappy Referees Are Back
What happened last week in sports? The fake football referees really blew it, so the real referees returned. Some baseball teams made the playoffs, and a hockey player got real emotional on Twitter.
Myspace Wants to Be Pintumblfacergramify
Oh my, have you seen MySpace's fresh promo video? I think the veteran social network is finally sick of 187th place on the Internet. Now, the site is offering something I don't think many other networks have planned or thought of. Myspace is placing...
The Juggalo Facebook Is Real
Juggalobook.com, it exists. Thankfully, Motherboard's sister site Noisey pretty well has this covered: bq.. Check out some of the amazing ICP-inspired twists: you don’t “like” a post, you “Whoop Whoop!” it. Your “friends” are “homies,” and you...
Facebook for the Rich and Famous: A Chat with Matt Quinn
"They were looking for off the shelf software that would meet their needs."
Stalking the Facebook Profiles of the 17th Century
Social networking thinkers, particularly social networking detractors, like to talk about the broadcasting of one’s self to an audience of strangers in novel terms. It's important that it's a new, unprecedented thing because it's important to locate it...
Chime.in Wants To Pay You Cash Money For Social Networking
Every so often I get an email from YouTube soliciting its AdSense revenue sharing program. That is, a certain amount of traffic hits my videos (not much, I can assure you) and Google (YouTube's parent) wants to slap some ads on them and split the money...