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  • facebook, funny, future, star wars

 

This Lord of the Rings Facebook parody is probably a bit funnier than the Star Wars one, only because of the language.

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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

 

Ah, the scratchy sounds of yesterday
Back then, if you couldn’t sing or write a song and yet you needed to express your feelings for someone, you’d have made a mix tape. Armed with a dual tape deck, our crappy musical tastes were a form of creative expression, with the analogue cassette tape as the canvas.

Nowadays, I hear that the kids just dedicate songs on Facebook.

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  • analogue, dub, facebook, maxell, mixtape, playlist, tape

 

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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  • australia, email, facebook, IM, linkedin, melbourne, privacy, social networking, st kilda

 

‘Share’ is Facebookspeak for ‘advertise’. Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.

›› A fierce, detailed attack on Facebook on the Guardian

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