Earlier this month, at a friend’s house, she read aloud a notification from Facebook informing her that at this time, on this date one year earlier, she had been at Bar X watching Band Q. It made me think of how…
Category: Social Media
The Dying Art of Friendship
Earlier this year I stumbled across an article from 2012 entitled “Friends of a Certain Age: Why is it Hard to Make Friends Over 30?“. As I get older I find that my definition of friendship has been adjusted to…
Just Say Something!
Last year a friend of mine remarked in frustration how everybody “likes” (or “favorites”) something on social media. She would prefer if people said something once in a while through comments. I noted down her thoughts in a draft posting for the…
Hiding in Plain Sight
I’ve personally never tried Instagram, but I have a number of friends who use it. They all love it. Instagram provides a platform for people to communicate with each other in a visual way through sharing photos. The uses for…
Communication Sprawl
A few weeks ago I finished a book by Charles Montgomery called Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. A self-professed cosmopolite, I found the book enlightening and started thinking about my surroundings a bit differently. One idea that…