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I’ve always wondered if it takes me longer to get past clichéd thinking than others, or less time. I was thinking about this because I read someone’s response to a Facebook post that went something like “I’m wearing shorts today. I don’t think I could handle the weather in [place x] anymore.” Seriously? Do you [...]

There’s nothing better than getting your friends to take sides, in public, when you argue with your partner. Except perhaps learning to solve your problems amongst yourselves in private and just plain suck it up.

Austin… great town and now the only place outside Palo Alto where you can work for Facebook.

Ed Finkler represents all of us geeks, but when he discusses the upcoming iPad I think he gets it completely when he says: What I’ve learned from interacting with most computer users, though, is that they do not give a rat’s ass about how computers work. They want to accomplish certain tasks, and will do [...]

AT&T says it’s fixed mobile Facebook problems now.  Pretty sloppy session identifier issues from the sound of it.  The average user will not understand this explanation, and AT&T and Facebook  both owe it to everyone to explain in detail how ridiculously easy it seems to have been for users to be able to access total [...]

People are willing to put themselves out there when they can gain from it. But this doesn’t mean that everyone suddenly wants to be always in public. And it doesn’t mean that folks who live their lives in public don’t value privacy. The best way to maintain privacy as a public figure is to give [...]

From this firsthand account inside Facebook HQ: One of the most troubling revelations in the anonymous interview is the claim that any Facebook employee could log into any member account with a single master password (which was some derivation of Chuck Norris — not so funny in this scenario). The shadowy interviewee also said that [...]

I’m not sure how “the Internet loses track” of your goings-on on Facebook – the original author of this article doesn’t seem to know much about technology.  But still an interesting development if you’re a Facebooker and you’re trying to keep a pulse on how good (or bad) FB’s infrastructure is. I vote that it’s [...]

I’m not so sure it had ever begun on Facebook. ‘I don’t buy Zuckerberg’s argument that Facebook is now only reflecting the changes that society is undergoing. I think Facebook itself is a major agent of social change and by acting otherwise Zuckerberg is being arrogant and condescending.’ Strikes me as a cop out, too. [...]

Like almost everyone else I’ve found a lot of old friends on Facebook since joining some time ago. And also (like everyone else) most of my friends are from childhood and are, logically, very close to my age. At the moment that means were all approaching forty years old, we’re all watching grandparents die, and [...]