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Follow the Bouncing Ball

May 3, 2010
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Ideally, foursquare should act like the four square court I saw in the park; people should use it as a way to connect when they’re in the same location. It shouldn’t matter if you know the other people or not. If you’re hanging around an actual four square court, then clearly you all have an interest in playing.

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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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10 Ways the Web Has “Standardized” Emotion

April 23, 2010
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Facebook didn’t consider its users’ maturity levels when it launched the new “Like” feature. I’m happy that users are playing with “Like” because the concept should never be taken seriously. Pages like “in the butt” actually fill me with hope for humanity.Some social networks have tried to “standardize” human emotions.

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Honey, We Need to Talk about Facebook

April 2, 2010
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One April Fools’ trend that I did not enjoy were the numerous relationship status updates in my Facebook newsfeed: new relationships, broken relationships, engagements, and marriages. The fake relationship status was all the rage this year! I was confused because one of my friends actually DID get engaged.

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Sending Messages in Digital Bottles

March 10, 2010
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Have you ever had so much to say to someone but couldn’t tell that person? Have you ever written a letter to someone and then ripped it into tiny pieces? If you answered “yes”, then you’re in luck! The Internet makes it easy for you to write anonymous notes to people who will probably never guess you are writing about them.

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How Steve Jobs Is Like Men I Refuse To Date

January 28, 2010
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After yesterday’s post about the Apple iPad hype, I started to have a creepy feeling that Steve Jobs reminds me of someone I know. I spent the whole day thinking about it – who could it be? Why does this marketing ploy feel eerily familiar? And then, I figured it out.

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Social Media Makes a Strange Bedfellow

January 20, 2010
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My best friend will not respond to a text message from a man she is dating. She believes that, if a man really wants to speak to her, he can pick up the phone and call her. She also refuses to do the Facebook relationship thing and tries not to “friend” romantic interests on Facebook. It’s too tempting for her to draw imaginary conclusions.

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