The psychology of likes, comments, and shares

My use of social media goes back nearly 15 years. First, it was LinkedIn, then Facebook, then Twitter, then Instagram. Since then a few have […]

Where do I go next?

Like many among my readers, I’ve vastly reduced my use of Twitter over the last couple of years. Since the radical changes in ownership and […]

Freedom and creativity

As a blogger, I’ve always enjoyed the freedom and creativity that comes with sharing my thoughts and ideas. But lately, I’ve found myself struggling with […]

Personal blogging

One way out of the mire that we’ve found ourselves in with our use (and reliance?) on social media is the personal blog, according to […]

Hashtags and CamelCase

Support for Hashtags were added to Twitter in 2007, before this they were used but the platform didn’t create links on them for searching and […]

52 things I learned in 2022

Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s annual collection of things learned, here are my ’52 things I learned in 2022′. The list is usually presented under the […]

What’s taking so long? #100DaysToOffload

In August 2020 I started the blogging challenge of 100 Days to Offload, and 834 (!) days later I’ve still not completed it. Why not? […]

Unsubscribe

With fewer and fewer people sharing and collaborating on Twitter, LinkedIn updates becoming a hybrid between Facebook and Twitter chats, I’ve been relying on my […]

“Oh yeah?”

Imagine having a button on your browser that you press to check the “gigantic accumulation of crowd-sourced credibility” around what it says or what you […]

Mastodon. So far

You may have seen the odd tweet or news article or two about changes at Twitter, about the predicted demise of ‘the bird site’, and […]

Don’t delete it

As many people leave their various social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc, there is an attraction to make the grand gesture of deleting […]

Tweet this

I don’t need to tweet this. I don’t need to tweet this. I don’t need to tweet this. I don’t need to tweet this. I […]

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