Category: social networking
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Twitter Account Deactivated
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I finally took the step of deactivating my account, and then reactivating it, and then this morning deactivating it again. Normally when I lose interest in a social network I just forget about it and I’m done. In this situation I didn’t forget about it though. I went a step further.…
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Bluesky Thinking
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have spent the last day or two playing with Bluesky and I believe that it has potential, At it’s base it’s like Mastodon, but with less anarchic user base, and fewer trolls. This could be because I haven’t spent weeks using it yet. Threads has a good community and good community…
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Which Social Media To Invest Time Into?
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot a single day goes by that I don’t think that now is the right time to give up on social media networks like Twitter, Threads, Jaiku, Google, BlueSky and Mastodon. Too Many People When social networks were small they were on a human scale. You could be on a forum with…
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The Growing Desire to Dump Social Media
Reading Time: 2 minutesI really miss the age of social networks. In the age of social networks our sphere of influence was limited to our friends, and our friends of friends. The result is that social media was a friendly conversation rather than a popularity contest. Over the last two days I have been looking…
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The Uncertain Train Journey
Reading Time: 1 minuteFor years I automatically took the car for everything I did, or almost. Over the last seven or eight years that habit has changed as I grew used to walking locally, and catching the train to activities. This shift in habits is due to two things. The first is that I met…
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Thoughts on the Book Blindness
Reading Time: 2 minutesI read Blindness last month and finished it yesterday and although it won a Nobel Prize I was not a fan of the book. I haven’t had time to digest it properly yet but I think that it was at a disadvantage. It explores what it would be like to live through…
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Why I chose to Deactivate Threads
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I woke up to people insulting me for not being an Apple fan boy on Threads. Before that I was trolled for several other reasons and the consequence is that I have now deactivated my Threads account. For me the web is a place where, if you agree, or if…
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Toying With the Idea of Fairphone
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an inalienable truth, that within two or three years all of my mobile phones require a battery swap. With an iPhone this costs 67.50 CHF for the SE but only 28 CHF for a fairphone. In light of this it makes sense to recycle the iPhone SE and replace it…