social media their way — or my way
It’s fairly common for the local businesses I follow on Instagram to post there news of sales, or unusual opening...
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quote tweets are the worst
Claire McNear, How Quote Tweets Helped Ruin Twitter: When did things get so bad on Twitter? It’s hard to say, even...
Freedom
I’m quite late to this party, but I recently started using Freedom and I really like it. What led me to it was my...
farewell to Twitter?
A few weeks ago I deleted my private Twitter account — it was a good way to keep up with friends, but I found it...
sharing: the opposite of caring
This from Michael Brendan Dougherty is worthy of some reflection: An example: I’m worried about the culture on...
a further word of exhortation: RSS
Some of you will have discovered my previous post exhorting you to abandon Twitter by finding a link to it on Twitter...
a word of exhortation
This morning, for the first time in a few weeks, I checked Twitter. I thought I should see if anyone had sent me a...
the fragility of platforms
In a comment on my previous post, Adam Roberts writes: In terms of human intermediation, facebook and twitter are...
rising up and rising down
Richard J. Evans summarizes Pankaj Mishra’s argument: “After a long, uneasy equipoise since 1945,” Mishra...
a dissertation on monocausal parataxis in social media
We don’t usually do politics here at Text Patterns, but I sort of sent us down that road in my last post. So: I...