Social Networking vs. Friendship

Last night I was listening to NPR’s “This American Life” podcast on the way home from work.  The topic was Frenemies.  It was a series of stories that dealt with connections between people that are friends, but not really, that put up with eachother and secretly hate, or dislike eachother.  There was even a wonderful [...]

The Toolkit

This weekend an unfortunate thing happened.  My boyfriend’s little sister had her Yahoo Mail account hacked after some Cyber-Bullying. The unfortunate outcome of this was that they not only used her credit card based on information stored on her Yahoo Account, but also deleted and hacked into some of her other accounts that housed images, [...]

To Tweet or to Plurk, ‘tis the question

So I have been hearing a lot about Plurk. It’s sort of like Twitter, which is a site where users post small updates to the internet, in what’s known as “micro-blogging”. I have a few friends that twitter and recently joined myself, though every time I go to “tweet” the site is down for maintenance. [...]