“fuck right off” real facebook error message

i was looking at the attendees to a a facebook event and where i showed up as an attendee the error message was quite explicit:
It’s you! But there’s like six other buttons that go to your profile, so fuck right off. Search
hmmm not sure if the facebook developers had inteded THAT particular message to actually [...]

don’t believe the social media jihadists

i have been thinking alot lately about the development and evolution of social media. i have also been tuning into alot of twitter conversations and reading alot of blogs. what is becoming apparent is that there are many social media jihadists out there that think social media is the only form of media for the [...]

busted by facebook: kyle doyle and the sickie

so i originally posted the full name and details of everyone involved, but now that sick boy has taken down his public facebook page, i think it only nice to anonymise.
the interesting thing about this, besides the obvious lesson, is if there are only two people involved in this exchange, how did this email go [...]

recession hits social media startups: twitter in the deadpool

twitters investors have run out of money. the massive hits to the market have taken their toll, and bad loans elsewhere have forced investors to pull the plug.
at the moment the scenario is improbable but not impossible. if you said lehman brothers and wamu were going to go bust two years back you would have [...]

future social ii: security and monetisation

so there are a bunch of horrified people reading my last post thinking: “what the hell drugs is he on?!”
the assumption for a very long time is that advertising was the way forward for web companies to make money. the assumption has been that we need to come up with some way to advertise [...]

future social i: facebook & federated id

my last post raised some questions amongst friends as to how we would get to the social media brave new world. i would like to take a few posts to step through this new “social media future”.
the first part that raised some eyebrows was facebook as a federated identity platform.
let me make this clear, it [...]

social media in 2018

i thought i would throw my hat into the technology-crystal-ball-gazing ring.
i have a theory that the things people do online, reflect the things that people do in the real world, so these series of predictions are based on this premise.
social media is simply a reflection of social networks and activities seen in day to day [...]

why is social media important?

the evolution of media
every so often there is a quantum leap in technology. changes that are more than just a step change or an improvement. these changes are considered disruptive changes. they are changes that initially look like the poor younger cousin of the dominant technology, but rapidly overtake and eclipse the established technology.
an example [...]