http://mamamusings.net/ elizabeth lane lawley's thoughts on technology, academia, family, and tangential topics Hi Liz, I discovered your blog via Jill's link to this post - I have been thinking this issue over quite a lot, you may find this blog post I wrote about it helpful? http://www.cre8d-design.com/2010/10/the-lifespan-and-depth-of-tweets-vs-blog-posts/ Rachel http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c094437 I love that you're blogging again, Liz! I'm determined to get back into blogging, too, for much the same reasons as you. I also find that periods where I'm active blogging are the periods of time where I love my job and get excited about new ideas and connections. For me, the discipline of not only coming across interesting finds but also formulating a blog post with links and some kind of opinion about it all is really important. I guess we've known that blogging works like that for many years, but I don't think I'd really linked it to ENJOYING research before. I've also been interested in all the reports of technology refusal out there. In my class last semester only one of 38 students was not on Facebook, and he had very strong, reasoned ideological arguments for his absence. On the other hand, those of my not-very-digital friends who aren't on Facebook and so forth seem to have very instinctive gut reactions against it, often labelled as a dislike of over-sharing and narcissism, which are certainly criticisms of social media that come up often in the media (at least here in Norway, I'm not even sure if that's a global issue?) I've seen various research on the rejection of technology in general, but never really looked at it. I think "non-adopters" is a frequently used term? Anyway, thanks for blogging - I look forwards to being blogging buddies again :) http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/03/opting_out_of_social_media.php#c094111 Erhardt, we need to figure out a way to get you to work on this as part of your graduate work. :) http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/03/opting_out_of_social_media.php#c094021 This exact question came up during our team meeting today at Project Zero, and I agree that this is an important question to start studying. I would particularly likely to see data of account deactivation/deletion mapped out like an information cascade to see how it precipitates over time. Were the early droppers also early adopters? Does the social network propagation of deletion behavior look the same as or different than that of adoption? Methodologically, we would need to determine if we should also count account abandonment alongside deactivation/deletion, especially since that seemed to be the trend during previous social network deaths like Friendster and MySpace. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/03/opting_out_of_social_media.php#c093996 Good luck researching this! I'd love to better understand the psyché of social users, many of whom are my clients. I still get a lot of requests to build a "social networking presence" as part of building a new website, even thought the client has no idea what that means. (When that's the case, I usually talk them out of it.) As for me, I've convinced myself that, as an IT professional, people expect me to know something about everything, so I justify the time *I* spend on every popular social network, just so I can be "that guy." Really, I just like to play. LINKEDIN: Maybe part of me doesn't want to be left out. Back when LinkedIn was just getting started, I jumped-in because all the cool kids at RIT were creating accounts there. So I did too. But honestly, I never saw the value of it until years later. And now I boast how I was an early adopter. GOOGLE+: Same thing with Google+. I jumped in early. (Blessed with an invitation, no less!) However, even though I quickly maxed out with the Google+/Facebook overlap, and I haven't logged-in to Google+ in weeks, I'll still hold on to the account ...just in case I need that swagger. FOURSQUARE: I've tried really hard to keep going on Foursquare, but it's wearing me down. Honestly, it only reminds me how much other people have a "real" social life, and I don't. :o) Good luck! http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/03/opting_out_of_social_media.php#c093959 Linda, I don't use Facebook lists at all. I think they provide a false sense of security, both because Facebook shifts their settings so often, and because there are "loopholes" in visibility (as when someone tags another user in a comment or post). But my blog has always been a very public space, not a private journal. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093919 Our blogs have already outlasted its predecessors. And even if they don't outlast Facebook, they'll be more accessible outside of it. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093918 I'm particularly with you on the "walled garden" problem. I notice that by dribbling out my life a sentence or two at a time, it saps from the synthesized posts more typical of my pre-FB era. Over this break I had made a conscious decision to blog at least every other week. My blog posts have a theme (an upcoming trip to NZ) but I think it was driven by more than that, if not fully consciously. In any event, our blogs will outlast Facebook (is my guess). http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093837 Great you are blogging again. The Emersonian essayist in you needs s place to shine. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093666 I'm glad you're blogging again. The message is the medium. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093601 Very interesting observation, Liz. I have noticed that I tend to blast facebook rather than to write in my journal, but wish it were not so. Do you also manage the list on Facebook that sees the link to your journal entries? Or are they public? I think that the facebook friends lists are very powerful, but for people with a lot of friends the initial filtering is an almost overwhelming proposition. lindac http://mamamusings.net/archives/2012/01/02/thinking_out_loud.php#c093596 There are few more sites which make apartment hunting easy, i checked do not rent dot com and check apartment reviews dot com. These 2 sites have good amount of reviews on apartments. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/04/06/i_hate_apartment_hunting.php#c085615 Hey, cool App overview. A few questions about the apps you mention: Everynote; does the OCR really work? Most of my experiences with OCR were more or less disappointing. The LogMeIn app, how does it work? Is it smooth and good for remote control or just for short access like you mentioned? Daniel http://mamamusings.net/archives/2010/05/09/favorite_ipad_apps_week_one.php#c083740 In this day and age, I tend to use Bing more and more. Maybe big G is losing a little market share! http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/24/internet_librarian_05_30_search_tips_in_40_minutes.php#c083686 Thanks for the tips. http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/10/24/internet_librarian_05_30_search_tips_in_40_minutes.php#c081493