Perhaps since its inception, Facebook has been the social network – it’s what people associate (and find synonymous) with social networking, it has over a billion users, and it gobbles up most of our time. Or to put it more crudely, Facebook is the blackhole of internet usage – in goes our free time, and...
Consider this analogy for a moment: there are two bandwagons, Facebook and Twitter. From a branding perspective, Facebook is considered to be the undisputed champion. It’s won 5 titles in a row. It’s big and it’s lean. It has a long reach (nearly a billion users). People expect it to win. And still, even years...
We can easily accept that, in a lot of ways, the world wide web as opened up the world as a whole. It has made us free to connect with brands, individuals, friends and family instantly. It has made us more aware of information that is both good and bad. In turn, it has kind...
Social media, and specifically Twitter and Facebook, are perfect mediums for most businesses to communicate with their clients and customers. Twitter is a sprawling, open network that grants businesses the opportunity to communicate with anyone on it, and not just their followers. On the other hand, Facebook is a far more enclosed ecosystem that limits...
I have invested a lot of time and energy in Facebook, undoubtedly. I have read, probably, compendiums worth of status updates, notes and wall posts. There are a lot of pictures of me. Hundreds, probably. All of my friends use it. For the most part, Facebook is the digital locker room for my high school...
It’s easy to get caught up in the hype of Facebook’s new Timeline feature. It’s groundbreaking. Revolutionary, even. Gizmodo even went so far as to label it the, “greatest thing Facebook’s ever done.” Dan Lyons hilariously and satirically poked fun at the importance of Facebook’s new Timeline feature in a recent blog post. “Nevertheless, 24 hours later,...