I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.
For every Netflix, there's a Blockbuster. Every Facebook, a MySpace.
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.
Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.
Facebook captures examples of inequality and makes them available for endless replay. Twitter links the voiceless to newsmakers. Instagram immortalizes the faces and consequences of discrimination. Isolated cruelties are yoked into a powerful narrative of marginalization that spurs a common cause.
I do not have a Facebook page, and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a web site, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo.
There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.
Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.
For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.
Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.
Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.
Facebook creeps me out.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.
