I’m still not used to the idea that when I post a picture, it goes to the pages of all my 2220 some ‘friends.’ It seems very odd. But then, when I went to bed last night, I had 2292 friends. “Ah,” I thought, “tomorrow I’ll be up to 2300. This morning I had 2226 [...]

Started adding neighbours today after one of them friended me. Without asking, it is hard to know who might be on Facebook. Except for the writers and artists, who have work, books and readings to promote, most individuals have around 10 to 50 friends, nearly all relatives or someone they knew in highschool. Went to [...]

Sci Fi writer Fritz Lieber wrote more than one short story about a future population so satiated with virtual reality that they no longer participated in real life. When Karl Marx said religion was the opiate of the masses, he reckoned without Facebook. Enough of us are on line enough that the real world of [...]

Probably every living author in the world has seen facebook for what it is and got on. Why didn’t I see this sooner? I discovered the author fact backwards. One of my many struggling writer or artist friends suggested I add Brooke London who turned out to be an author of romantic suspense. (Hooray!) Clicking [...]

Most Facebookers with 5 or 6 friends will never see the message so for their edification, here’s what the warning says: “You are engaged in behaviour that may be considered annoying or abusive by other users. Facebook Systems determined that you were going too fast when adding friends. You must significantly slow down. Further use [...]

Facebook is one of those experiences that will come to define a certain social phenomena in the world that caused a change in the way people think. Facebooks ending will be very hard on many people. At first I thought it might be dangerous. Now I think, ‘no more dangerous than life.’ Shortly after joining [...]

Woke up to 2015 friends this morning but it’s early days yet. That number seems to be feeding off itself. Funny, I don’t feel any different. And how else could I end up with a considerable number of friends in India and other far off places? Sitting down to eat breakfast on my tv trray [...]

I am looking forward to the future when all the facebook mysteries, the tales of misplaced correspondence, the Kicked-Off-Due-To-5 Thousand-Friends, all the separations due to someone’s worlds of communication being shattered into too many thousands of splintered ‘hellos,’ will someday be told. The old days of a small collective seem to have twittered away. Or [...]