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Limited Bandwidth and Twitter

Dec 7, 2022

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in social conscience, Social Media Deontology, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s take a step back from today, and let’s remember the 2006 tech landscape. In 2006 we had Symbian phones, GPRS, text messages. We used the world wide web whilst sitting at computers usually via wifi. We would tweet until the moment we left home, and then we had to rely on…

MicroBlogging and I

Dec 6, 2022

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesSince 2006 I have thought of Twitter, Jaiku, Mastodon and Plurk as conversation channels, rather than microblogging. I go to these places and use them as chatroooms rather than microblogs. If I want to blog I have my full scale blog. This website, to keep me entertained. I bring this up because…

Taking a Break From Twitter

Dec 5, 2022

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI have used Twitter almost every single day since I created my first account in 2006. During this time I have met a lot of people, gone to a lot of events, learned a lot and been part of communities. The decision to take a break is not an easy one to…

Mastodon has Eight Million Accounts Today

Dec 3, 2022

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richard

in social media, social media living room, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesMastodon has reached eight million accounts today. That’s close to the population of Switzerland and two million less than London. Mastodon is growing because it was ready to scale up at the right time. As Musk and Twitter shift towards the Right, and as Musk perpetuates conspiracy theories, on a daily basis,…

The Day of Snow Poles and Mastodon

Dec 1, 2022

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday during the walk I saw an orange van moving by the side of the road slowly. It was stopping regularly. I crossed the road and looked towards it. I saw an open door and a person placing traffic snow poles into the bollards at the side of the road. Winter is…

On Engagement and Leaving Social Media Platforms

Nov 30, 2022

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richard

in social media, Social Media Deontology

Reading Time: 2 minutesI used to like Facebook and Instagram because they were extensions of my social life. I left both of them when I saw that only two or three people reacted to my posts. Although social media platforms had started as being solitary, they had become social with time, and then lonely again,…

Twitter is Dead, Long Live Social Media

Nov 28, 2022

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richard

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

Reading Time: 2 minutesLe Roi est Mort, longue vie au Roi (article) is a popular phrase in French. It signifies that if the king died royalty would continue and he would quickly be succeeded. Social media has just entered a new age, I believe. Twitter, Facebook and other giants have grown too big, and algorithms…

The Temptation to Give Up On Social Media

Nov 19, 2022

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richard

in social media, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesI find myself tempted to give up on social media and focus on blogging instead. I am tired of social media after decades of use. I am tired that users, that provide all of the value are ignored, and that greedy boards of directors can sell users as if they were lumps…

To Mastodon, from Jaiku

Nov 17, 2022

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richard

in social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesTwitter was bought by an individual that many of us do not trust, and we fear that it may no longer represent the values that we cherish. That Twitter is bought is nothing new. Myspace was bought by Murdoch, many years ago. Jaiku was a great competitor to twitter but it was…

Taking Yet Another Twitter Break

Nov 13, 2022

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richard

in social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the current situation at Twitter I have chosen to take a twitter break. Twitter hasn’t been fun during the last three years, which is part of the reason I went anonymous, private, and then public but anonymous again. It used to be about having conversations with people that I would eventually…

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