Yesterday, I hit a mini-milestone: I’ve accumulated 1,000 followers on one of my accounts on X (formerly Twitter). It took me three years to get here, and I’m genuinely happy about it. Back in early 2022, I wanted a forum to talk about my neighborhood and possibly connect with local people — but I didn’t…
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Life with minimal social media
These past few months, I’ve been exploring life with minimal social media. I realized I was spending too much time on social media, and I wanted to fix that. One by one, I started limiting my access to these apps and then eventually deleting them altogether from my devices. LinkedIn was the easy first target….
SNS Review 2018
More and more, I am starting to lose interest with all these social networking services. Facebook has lost its appeal because my timeline has started to look like a long boring stream of babies, travels, and get-togethers of people I barely know anyways. Not to mention the persistent articles about Duterte or Trump many of…
Twittering
Ever wondered why I haven’t blogged for more than two months now? I’ve been twittering.
Back to Reality
I’ve done it! I’ve gotten rid of my addiction (!) to all these social networking sites! I’ve gotten rid of Friendster a few months ago and now, I think I’ve started getting rid of Facebook and Twitter. For a while there, all I did was check (spy) on people, look at pictures, reply to statuses…
My Favorite Social Networking Tool
I’ve tried a lot of social networking tools – Blogger, Friendster, Facebook, Multiply, and more recently,Twitter. They all have their unique features that allowed me to socialize and to network. In the end though, I realized I have one favorite. And no, it’s not Blogger. It’s coffee. Nothing beats a good conversation with a friend…
Facebook Is The New Friendster
And I didn’t mean that in a positive way. Not at all. I used to love Friendster. It allowed me to keep in touch with friends I haven’t seen in years. All was well until people started customizing the colors and backgrounds of their profiles to the point that they became unreadable. People started sending…
Enrico in Tokyo 