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Tired of your Social Networks? Commit Web 2.0 Suicide!

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  • retirement, social networking, web

 

Nothing personal, former Facebook friends: I’ll miss those wall updates about doing dishes and changing the kitty litter… But most of all, I will miss those hundreds upon hundreds of baby pictures that remind me daily of how insanely happy I am that my kids aren’t babies any more.

›› Absolutely hilarious piece by Steve Tuttle at Newsweek

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  • baby, facebook, photos, social networking, time, waste

 

Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to

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  • consumer, digital, electronics, hardware, interface, radio, social networking, web

 

I wish I had thought of this Twitter mashup first

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  • javascript, messaging, social networking, twitter, visualization

 

Talking about Facebook is strictly prohibited at Blessington Street in St Kilda, Melbourne
Maybe it’s an early adopter syndrome or the gazillion inane requests, but I am just sick and saturated with my Facebook experience. I’ll just stick to LinkedIn, thanks very much.

(To my dearest friends, please don’t feel slighted. I am still contactable via ‘older technology’ like email and IM and maybe we could even catch up IRL one day.)

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My name is and I just learned that the hash sign is also known as an octothorp. It's exactly this kind of unnecessary information works its way into conversations that scares people away from me. Not that I am really complaining though…

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