You know, I have been thinking about community a lot lately. A few weeks ago, Vaneeesa posted an interesting commentary on Facebook. In Feeding the Zuck she stated “When you participate at Facebook, yes you have easy, free access to the world’s greatest baby photo sharing site, but you don’t really build a community, you mostly [...]
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I Share Therefore I Am
Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story we are telling about ourselves. Part of the addictive nature of social networks is the compulsion to stay alive in the minds of our audience. We’ve transformed ourselves psychologically from private citizens to public figures on the stage [...]
The Public Square
ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 2 May – Today Google Inc. made permanent their ban of Vaneeesa Blaylock from their unpopular social network site Google+, declaring Blaylock an illegitimate human being, her identity false, and determining that she had no civil rights and no human rights. In a written statement Justice Gundotra denied [...]
Weak Genes
RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, 27 April – Launched 10 April, and sued yesterday by 18 Olympic athletes claiming implied endorsement without consent, the Samsung Electronics America Inc., Olympic Genome Project on Facebook is a social network visualized poorly. Essentially “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” for the Olympics via Facebook, SGP takes the dubious “degrees of separation” [...]
Vaneeesa Blaylock
INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 4 April – Meet Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, and last, but certainly not least, Vaneeesa Blaylock. In almost 3 years, 2 years and 11 months to be precise, 1,068 days to be more precise, since joining Facebook on 2 May [...]
Vanessa Blaylock
INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 1 April – Meet Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, and last, but certainly not least, Vanessa Blaylock. Yes, in case you’re wondering, the person who contributes to this blog’s real name is Vaneeesa Blaylock, but when she joined Facebook on 2 [...]
Equal Protection
MENLO PARK, CA, 28 May – It’s heartbreaking to realize that Facebook can be so inclusive to one oppressed minority as the above LGBTQ “It Gets Better” video clearly demonstrates, even as, one week ago, Facebook committed avatar genocide. “Avatar Genocide”?? I get it. Words like “Genocide” and “Slavery” are enormously powerful words that [...]
733 Friends
As the rather dramatic image above shows, my SL Network is so big (number of peeps and density of interconnections) that the SL “bolus” has become “me” and pushed all other connections out much like a star gone nova creating an annular nebula!
Mourning the Facebook Dead
If you need still more irony in your breakfast cereal, consider that the fictional film “Avatar” was #1 at the box office again this week… even as real Avatars are being executed on Facebook!
Data Viz: Visualizer
I’m going thru some serious withdrawal pains with Touchgraph being down. So I’ve been shopping for alternate FB Friend Visualizations.
400 Friends
You can clearly see the “cancerous” sovereign nation of Second Life continue to, like nanobots with a defective self-replication-stop switch, take over my network.
300 Friends
In this frame you’ll notice a giant blob of friend-protoplasm threatening to take over this Friend Network Visualization! Yes, it’s that tightly interconnected army of Second Lifers!
Big Thunder Mountain
Space Mountain is a “ride,” and that ride is more about Space Mountain than it is about you. Facebook is also a “ride,” and Facebook is more about Facebook than it is about you.
218 Friends
This just happens to be the exact same number of “real/meaningless” “friends” that, uh, “someone” I know took almost 3 years on Facebook to acquire.
100 Friends
The reason my FB account is under the name “Vanessa Blaylock” and not my “real” name Vaneeesa Blaylock, is that when I signed up, Facebook said that the name “Vaneeesa” was unacceptable because “too many repeating letters” – not allowed!
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Vaneeesa Blaylock oh gawd, those were dark times. She was really mea
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Monerda /me does a "spit take" of my latte! &quo
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Apmel Great article!
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Lizzie Gudkov Pulling too! lol Two "Ls"... a lot more
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Vanessa Bartlett VB this is hilarious. I'm sure focusing on in
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Fiona Blaylock Naked Art Show Raided by NTPD!
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