after i cancelled my facebook account i experienced people with paranoia, wondering why i would delete them as a friend. i found that funny. get a grip!
it's explained in the article but the author coins that word to define in some way what facebook lacks - a structure, a beginning and an end or as she puts it:
Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This world of old media is like a giant machine that organizes time into stories. I call it the Epiphanator, and it has always known the value of a meaningful conclusion.
The story has an interesting angle and is a good read. The difference between the old media output and the new one is that the latter flows.
That said, the streams are consistent of small stories with a beginning and an end (a post on Facebook). So it's all about perception here.
My worries, if any, are about the decline of serious journalism, not about the epiphanator.
just joined google+, trying to work out how to use it since I haven't been on a social network since I lost my myspace password a few years back when i cahnged my email. i think i managed to post up that unreleased funk track youtube clip.....
Ha! Same here...I have 2x times now googled "Google+ Failure" and finally found a blog article that agreed with this on Forbes. I was shocked how many in the comments were blasting the author and all salty defending that POS. Wave-R.
been off facebook for about a month...(3rd break this year)
when you hit ignore and dont cancel the friend request fully they wont see your status updates, but they will see when you add other people as a friend, like a page, etc. its not really saying i want to ignore this person but saying ignore this request for now until i come back to it.
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give it a couple of years, and quitting facebook shall be seen as suicide
it's explained in the article but the author coins that word to define in some way what facebook lacks - a structure, a beginning and an end or as she puts it:
Social media has no understanding of anything aside from the connections between individuals and the ceaseless flow of time: No beginnings, and no endings. These disparate threads of human existence alternately fascinate and horrify that part of the media world that grew up on topic sentences and strong conclusions. This world of old media is like a giant machine that organizes time into stories. I call it the Epiphanator, and it has always known the value of a meaningful conclusion.
The story has an interesting angle and is a good read. The difference between the old media output and the new one is that the latter flows.
That said, the streams are consistent of small stories with a beginning and an end (a post on Facebook). So it's all about perception here.
My worries, if any, are about the decline of serious journalism, not about the epiphanator.
The Future of News
It was the feature topic in The Economist a couple of weeks ago.
FINALLY, thanks for the heads up bill
b/w
thanks for the add raj
Someone from my teenage years who I am not too fond of added me a while back and I put them on ignore and forgot about it.
Yesterday I got a message from the saying
???if you don???t want to be friends with me that???s fine, but can you please press no, because I am sick of reading all of your shit???
I was quite shocked and embarrassed , because I thought that if you had someone on ignore, your things wouldn???t come up on their feed.
This caused me to tighten up all my settings and delete a whole bunch of people just in case.
Now this raises a further question, now I have deleted all these people, will they come up in the ???You might know this person??? feed?
FB is great for networking and keeping track of things, but I???m less inclined to used it now to share my thoughts and interests.
Maybe google+ is the answer?
Google needs to launch G+ already. Other than Tom from Myspace's interesting blog posts... shit is a ghost town.
Ha! Same here...I have 2x times now googled "Google+ Failure" and finally found a blog article that agreed with this on Forbes. I was shocked how many in the comments were blasting the author and all salty defending that POS. Wave-R.
when you hit ignore and dont cancel the friend request fully they wont see your status updates, but they will see when you add other people as a friend, like a page, etc. its not really saying i want to ignore this person but saying ignore this request for now until i come back to it.