About a year ago, my friend Facebook asked me if I’d like to make our relationship FB official by creating a bitmoji. I played around with the idea very, very briefly and then declined. I don’t like to think that hard about what I look like. It’s kind of deflating. Ah, but Facebook is a [...]
We celebrated a friend's 17th birthday last night. Since then, "At Seventeen," Janis Ian's 1975 hit song, has been stuck in my head. "I learned the truth at 17, that love was meant for beauty queens..." The truth about 17 is that it has always been a challenging age, a plateau of poignancy from which [...]
Recently, a slew of self-described social media experts have cluttered up the information highway with all sorts of dire etiquette warnings and self-righteous suggestions for how we should behave on Facebook. Here's why we don't need them (and neither do you): 1) We like your pictures. We really do. We don't click "like" indiscriminately (though [...]