I recently caught this article on the BBC: People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they reduce levels of face-to-face contact, an expert claims. A lack of “real” social networking, involving personal interaction, may have biological effects, he suggests. He also says that evidence suggests that a lack of face-to-face networking could…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
May 28, 2007 |
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One of the growing trends I’ve been observing in the blogosphere lately has been the arrival of social networking and Web 2.0 sites that all seem to have one thing in common: they’re all designed to encourage you to store your content on THEIR networks, rather than on your own site. Got photos you want…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
May 1, 2007 |
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Honestly, I don’t know how some people do it. It took me literally all day just to check out places like Digg, Reddit, MyBlogLog, and so on. Just to read the latest feeds from my newsreader sucked up so much time that before I knew it, it was 3AM and my brain was fried from…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
April 26, 2007 |
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It’s hard to decide what direction I’d like to take this blog in, which might have something to do with the fact that my life currently has no direction either. The best I can do now is simply blog my thoughts, and see where it goes from there. I enjoy blogging, but my writing can…
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Written by Lincoln Adams on
April 25, 2007 |
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I woke up late this morning, and not being in any hurry to get to work, I lazily surfed the Daily Blog Tips site, looking for advice and suggestions that I could apply to my own blog. I came across one post that linked to this article on how bloggers can use social networking sites…
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I’m in a slightly better mood today…. no I’m not. Ah well. I signed up for Facebook after getting an email from them indicating that open registration was now allowed. As much as I hate social networking sites, (especially Myspace), Facebook though seemed far more sophisticated to me, sporting a MUCH cleaner look than that…
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