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Category Archives: Facebook
Sad Things (# 1) Where is the Cat?
It is not advisable to write about positive things only because it would evoke jealousy in the reader. (I just heard about a study on the radio which investigated how depressed people get from browsing their friends’ Facebook profiles, especially … Continue reading
Easily Confused, # 6
The Twitter/Facebook revolution: The YouTube riots:
Posted in Facebook, Media, Politics, Technology
Tagged Arab Spring, Innocence of Muslims, Middle East
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Don’t buy Facebook shares!
A few friends of mine in California calling themselves “Facebook“ asked me if I want to buy 421 million of their shares at 38 $ a pop. I did a quick calculation and noticed that I don’t have enough money. Because … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Facebook, Technology, USA
Tagged business, investment, stock market
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Wasting Time
A few years ago, when I still had my personal Facebook account, I installed the Chess application and played rather regularly with people from all over the world. With one of these virtual chess partners I played almost every day, … Continue reading
My Facebook Page
No, I still won’t be on Facebook as a person. Please continue to refrain from bombarding me with your status updates about what you had for breakfast, how you like the weather or what you’re watching on TV. I don’t … Continue reading
Life after Facebook
I don’t want to pretend that I came to the decision to leave Facebook after much deliberation and after carefully weighing the pros and cons, the privacy concerns and shallowness of many of the posts and the wasted time with … Continue reading