Something which a little while ago got me thinking – to the extent that I felt that I needed to blog about it – was the decision to ban young people from social media following an example in Australia. Now, my thoughts were not strictly along the lines of is this a good idea or not – rather the announcement triggered a lot of related things.
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Thickening Up Facebook
Its a common complaint and a justified one in my opinion that Facebook has too much “junk” and not enough content. I have been challenged over recent days over what I could do about that and this is my first attempt at formulating those thoughts.
Just Trying To Keep Up
Social media is an evolving beast – I think that I have expressed previously my thoughts that we are all still very much in the learning curve when it comes to understanding the effect that it has on all parts of our lives. This means that there is no deep seated set of behaviours that everyone would agree as “acceptable” and that, in turn, leads to many making mistakes.
Are You Happy With Your Profile Picture?
On social media, is your profile picture how you see yourself or how you want others to see you?
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
I hadn’t come across this phrase until today, however it was coined (as I understand it) late last year when Facebook chose to ‘push’ their “Year in Review” feature to users by choosing a picture to illustrate the year and surrounding it with (generally) happy and joyous borders and the words “its been a great year”. Now – it doesn’t take much intelligence to realise that while – yes – most years are great in some respect – for some people the year will only hold bad memories whilst, for most, there will have been some low spots in an otherwise good year.
Thoughts On A Meme
I have to admit that I ‘collect’ what the online world has taken to calling “memes”. Now I have been collecting them since before they were called that (I think) – certainly before it was part of popular usage – when they were ‘merely’ aphorisms. (and yes – I do realise that in the accepted sense “memes” are more than ‘just’ “aphorisms”)
On Encouraging Serendipity
There is a discussion on LinkedIn at present about the inadequacies of the “linkedIn format” when it comes to what I shall term “constructive discourse” – by that I mean that something is “created” as a result of the discussion.
Past The 5m Mark
At the moment my profile on LinkedIn suggests that my connection link me to approximately 5m professionals. Is this a cause for celebration? I think probably not. I haven’t yet consolidated the number as above 5m – it varies by several thousand above and below. Does it make any difference to me?
When Friends Go Bad
I had a sudden revelation today that my blog entry On Friends was missing an important facet – not everyone that gets ‘close to you’ is a friend!
World 2.1 – Part 1
This is another post inspired by one that I have previously posted on the company intranet, but which has much wider implications. That one was entitled World 2.0 – the change this time is to reflect the fact that my own thinking has moved on since then. The new forms of interaction available to us in this day and age require that we rethink the way in which we can relate to others.