ooooooh. very nice.

thanks for posting that, miko!

Very interesting!

Totally cool! I promptly - of course - facebooked it.

I always thought clicking on one's profile would increase the frequency in which you were seen. Or rather, people showing up in my feed, or friend box were lurking around my profile. Then in my head, I would think, "Ha! You were thinking about me!"

As a non-social-media-marketer type the tone of that thing rather rubbed me the wrong way. I feel like in the 8 years or so I've been involved in this online blogging etc culture there's always been ways to go from nothing to va-va-voom for your blog, twitter, what-have-you but if it's a personal thing the best thing really is to do what you do and let the presence grow organically.. or not.

Save the "top 10 ways to INSERT LINKBAIT" for professional outlets. I understand that many people's motivations are somewhere in between though, they want to maintain a personal presence but also 'work on it', get noticed

On the topic of facebook, you know what scares me?

Remember how there was a scare once upon a time that Microsoft operates a monoculture and a non-diverse digital ecosystem means it leaves us all open to threats blah blah. Well talk about monoculture, a friend of mine who was one of the first facebook app developers who got a big app going in like '07 just bought it back after the cycle of some company buying it, running it into the ground and losing interest, and he relaunched it.. very simple app, very few attempts at notifications etc by it. Alright?

So facebook suddenly banned it for a few days, just like that. Disappeared. And I had a status update that I'd posted to twitter & to fb about it and facebook killed my status update with the app URL. I get that they were just trying to protect their users and if an app was falsely flagged they were going through the normal procedures but my status on twitter didn't go anywhere. So it's scary when one platform is in control of things like that, they can make things go away and things that mention them disappear--all with good intention, but all bureaucratic/automated bungling.

Reminds me of a science fiction story from like the 50s where a guy got executed because a library made a mistake in whether he returned a book

I just noticed this week that my niece and my husband don't show up in my FB "recent posts" stream, even though I have selected them both in my "show more" options and I routinely comment on or "like" their posts. Very odd.

I missed this post the last time around because it didn't have enough comments.

Speaking of FB, I wish I could tell who has unfriended me... Five people jumped ship! In the last few days! I guess I am not as entertaining as I think I am. I have figured out who two of them are, but not the other three.

I know I've been defriended, and I know there are apps you can install to tell you who, where, when and why, but honestly, I think this is the kind of information I'd torture myself with and I'm better off not having one more thing to fuel my resentful bitterness in life.

I seem stuck right around 300 "friends" (incl. like my entire high school, all four years).