Posted on February 12, 2010 by Rachel Weingarten
There’s something inherently broken if not altogether annoying about Facebook’s fan feature. Where else but the internet can you find a faux friend, slight acquaintance or former high school classmate sending you an e-mail suggesting you publicly profess your admiration for them and agree to accept an undefined amount of spam to further their goal?
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Posted on February 1, 2010 by Rachel Weingarten
Never one to ignore the lure of social networking peer pressure, I thought of including my own doppelganger, but was plagued with doubt.
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Posted on March 3, 2009 by Rachel Weingarten
The very nature of the social networking beast is that you’ve given us the framework to spread word of your mistakes like wildfire.
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by Rachel Weingarten
While I thought that I’d privatized my profile, I’d left myself and my comments wide open to being used by Facebook in a way that made me queasy
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Moderation Please
Let’s make this clear for once and for all, moderating is not censorship
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