Posted in Facebook, technology on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
there have been various controversies over Facebook, but after having a wonderful evening last weekend with an old high-school friend I hadn’t seen for decades, I could care less about all that. Security, piffle! I Facebook because it enabled me to get back in touch with a very dear friend. We talked, we laughed, [...]
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Posted in Facebook on November 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
the only person on Facebook who has “friends” whom she is not even sure she knows?
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1. Just came across two old high-school buddies on Facebook. Their photos shocked me: I could still see the young guys that I knew, but they were peeking out from the faces of these substantial men. Men my age.
2. Just corresponding with a student about a coffeehouse for high-school and university students and wrote, offhandedly [...]
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Posted in Facebook, this blog on August 6, 2007 | 8 Comments »
for the last several months. Far from it. For one thing, I have developed an enduring ebay addiction. Perhaps more productively, I have spent a lot of time on Wikipedia. Need to spend more, in fact, as I have got myself on a conference panel which is to discuss Wikipedia and teaching the 18thc. More [...]
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