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When Facebook Is the Elephant

August 10, 2010
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Lately, I’ve been trying something new: not friend-requesting people on Facebook soon after I meet them. I’ve been doing this especially with people I will be seeing on a regular basis, like coworkers, roommates, new friends, and men I want to date. I might look up the person’s profile, but that’s it.

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Face-to-Facebook with Our Loneliness

June 30, 2010
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Yesterday, I wanted to delete a Facebook friend and found myself face-to-Facebook with my entire list of “friends”. For a moment, I thought: maybe I should sort through my 700+ Facebook friends. At the end of my consideration, I decided that I could probably delete all but 10 people. I might as well delete my account.

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10 Ways Social Media Is Keeping You Single

June 9, 2010
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I know a lot of people who constantly lament their singlehood. Some, but not all of these people, scare away potential suitors via social media! I just want to sit them down and tell them they are sabotaging their chances of finding true love. For the clueless, here are 10 ways that social media is keeping you single.

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Commitment Is Calling the Landline

June 1, 2010
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But I wonder: what did we do before cell phones and the Internet? If someone wanted to date you or be your friend, that person would have to call you on your landline, leave a voicemail if you didn’t answer, and schedule a time and place to meet. Calling a landline meant effort, and scheduling a time to meet meant commitment.

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Why People Are Leaving Your Fan Page

May 24, 2010
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Some businesses are just now beginning to market themselves on Facebook. Well, it might be too late to begin those efforts. Lately, Facebook users have been a lot more picky about the pages they choose to “like” because of the way that these pages become linked to their profiles.

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At Least Facebook Has a Privacy Policy

May 20, 2010
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Over the years, our judicial system has taken many steps to ensure that public libraries protect the reader’s privacy. Libraries store very little information about their patrons, and “In many states, violating a public library reading record statute is a misdemeanor criminal violation”.

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Facebook, I Love You, but You’re Bringing Me Down

May 18, 2010
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The time I first found out about Facebook, I was eighteen years old, in spring, oh-four. How could I know this site would be a hook distracting me from papers, tests galore? Six years later, I found myself with plus or minus seven-hundred friends, a news feed full of pics.

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Things That Go “Poke” in the Night

May 14, 2010
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Have you been dreaming about Farmville again? You go to the bathroom to wash your face and brush your teeth, but you’re distracted by a strange noise coming from your computer in the other room. Are you hearing things? You shut off the faucet and listen closely. “Mooooo.” Did you really just hear a cow?

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SWF Seeks a Good Story

April 26, 2010
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On Friday, I had lunch with my friend Mark Bonner, a writer and editor based in New York City. Among other things, we discussed online dating and the ways that social networking has changed (ruined?) how people date today. We both agreed that online dating lessens the chance that a couple will have a good story to tell.

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