At least once a month I have to log into Facebook and un-tag pictures of myself. There is a segment of the Facebook population who feels that they are doing a public service by identifying every single person in every single photo they see. It never occurs to them that the people in the photos [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Comment Killa
On social networking sites I frequently notice a phenomenon of Comment Killas. You know who I mean. This is That Person who, merely by making a simple post, put a 187 on the entire discussion. Why? Because this person is a pariah, a troll, or a ticking time bomb of drama that nobody even wants [...]
Word of the Day
Narcissism
We live in a society where people can document themselves to death. Anyone can now set up a shrine to themselves online, posting dozens, if not hundreds of photos of themselves. There’s a deep seated neurosis in our culture that drives us to do this– the need to be special, the need to be remembered, [...]