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Whether Or Not To Tweet

Oct 9, 2021

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in Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes we have to ask whether or not to tweet. We have to ask this question because social media is seen by many, in common culture, as an addiction. Everything that is perceived negatively by society suffers, whether justifiably or not. The same is true of cyclists. In Switzerland there is an…

Playing With Flickr

Sep 15, 2021

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richard

in social media, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s interesting, isn’t it? Flick is a website that I have been part of since 1996 and I have been so distracted by Facebook, Instagram and other social networks that I have forgotten about it. Several times I expected the website to wither and disappear but it hasn’t. It is still around…

Bullying Disguised as Satire

Aug 18, 2020

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richard

in social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re in the middle of a pandemic. Some of us go without conversing with people in the real world for days or even weeks at a time. Is now the time to be offensive about people’s social media habits? For plenty of TikTok users, their only window into the social world…

Close to Success – Exporting Instagram images to WordPress Natively

Jun 2, 2020

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richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Instagram was a self-run startup I loved the product. I loved that it was a way of sharing images with friends. I loved that it was fast and that it was light. I also liked that it had it’s own community. I liked that it was a way of sharing real…

Twitter Threads and Blogging

Sep 16, 2019

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richard

in social media, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter threads and blogging are both free but whereas with one you need to click to read the continuation and it’s hard to print the other is self contained and easily shareable. I see twitter threads, that as twitter threads are a waste of time on a conversational channel but would be…

Forcing people to be active daily with Stories

Aug 28, 2019

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richard

in social media, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook and Instagram both have “Stories”. Stories are temporary vertical pictures and video that are only available for a limited amount of time before they are backed up and saved for retrieval once you request your data. In theory, they are a fantastic way of sharing life as it happens without worrying…

Google Plus is Shutting Down in August

Oct 19, 2018

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richard

in facebook, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy shutting Google plus in August 2019 Google have shut down one of my favourite social networks. From the start I have said that it reminded me of Jaiku, an excellent, european alternative to Jaiku that never reached critical mass and so was sold to Google, which then shut it down and…

Mental Health and Social media

May 23, 2017

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richard

in social conscience, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room, social networking, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere is a lot of discussion about Mental Health and social media because most people are not social media natives. They are either Luddites who do not appreciate playing with technology. They see themselves as users rather than participants and then there are extroverts and other people who see Social Media as…

Travel and data roaming

Apr 12, 2017

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richard

in advertising, social media, social media living room, travel

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn July Roaming will be a bad memory for Europeans travelling within Europe. As a result of this the sale of sim cards to Ingress players, pokemon Go players and others will also be a thing of the past. What will not change is that we use social media apps to communicate…

The Paradox of “kicking smartphone addictions”.

Mar 9, 2017

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richard

in mobile, social media, Social Media Deontology, social media living room

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s amusing that people think of “kicking smartphone addictions”. We now have a decade of experience in the current social media landscape. We have a decade of using smartphones rather than feature phones. In effect we have had a decade to adapt our lives to the age of the ubiquitous smartphone. We…

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