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66b7b24 A strange mood has seized the almost-educated young. They're on the march, angry at times, but mostly needful, longing for authority's blessing, its validation of their chosen . The decline of the West in new guise perhaps. Or the exaltation and liberation of the self. A social-media site famously proposes seventy-one gender options - neutrois, two spirit, bigender...any colour you like, Mr Ford. Biology is not destiny after all, and there's cause for celebration. A shrimp is neither limiting nor stable. I declare my undeniable feeling for who I am. If I turn out to be white, I may identify as black. And vice versa. I may announce myself as disabled, or disabled in context. If my identity is that of a believer, I'm easily wounded, my flesh torn to bleeding by any questioning of my faith. Offended, I enter a state of grace. Should inconvenient opinions hover near me like fallen angels or evil djinn (a mile being too near), I'll be in need of the special campus safe room equipped with Play-Doh and looped footage of gambolling puppies. Ah, the intellectual life! I may need advance warning if upsetting books or ideas threaten my very being by coming too close, breathing on my face, my brain, like unwholesome drugs. social-justice social-media university Ian McEwan
0f24a70 Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident. business business-advice executive facebook management marketing social-media success twitter Brian E Boyd
efa161c I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. We can lead good, ethical lives, but some bad phraseology in a Tweet can overwhelm it all - even though we know that's not how we should define our fellow humans. What's true about our fellow humans is that we are clever and stupid. We are grey areas. And so ... when you see an unfair or an ambiguous shaming unfold, speak up on behalf of the shamed person. A babble of opposing voices - that's democracy. The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. Let's not turn it into a world where the smartest way to survive is to go back to being voiceless. shaming social-media Jon Ronson
2f2aaa6 Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time. digital-identity digitalization identity internet meta network social-media truth Robin Wasserman
b8cbd25 I think our natural disposition as humans is to plod along until we get old and stop. But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. social-media Jon Ronson
3fd7726 For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start. business business-advice executive management marketing social-media Brian E Boyd
ced8083 "In short, the community on Facebook is the lazy kind. Whereas true community requires hard work ("love one another earnestly," writes Peter), social media provide us a kind of community that requires little of us. 'In other words,' writes Malcolm Gladwell, 'Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice." malcolm-gladwell small-change social-media Kyle Tennant
3edc23e Social media is your opportunity to reach a massive number of people with transparency, honesty, and integrity. business business-advice executive facebook management marketing social-media twitter Brian E Boyd
21e36a0 When everything is social, suddenly nothing is. philosophy social-media Jean Baudrillard
dd484dc "Poetry, I tell my students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves, (though Sterling Brown said "Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'") digging in the clam flats for the shell that snaps, emptying the proverbial pocketbook. Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get from here to there. Poetry (and now my voice is rising) is not all love, love, love and I'm sorry the dog died. Poetry (here I hear myself loudest) is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?" inspirational love poetry social-media Elizabeth Alexander
d2fe625 Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence. business-advice business-management-training executive facebook management marketing social-media twitter youtube Brian E Boyd
d29ced9 It is far better to have 10,000 Facebook friends who are in the same category or aligned with your values or a common inter- est than 100,000 random robot followers from around the world. business-advice executive facebook management social-media success twitter Brian E Boyd
0f4ead1 When shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes, nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche. shame social-media Jon Ronson
5494909 The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself. social-media technology the-internet Jean Baudrillard
ff3adc3 Instead, the situation has sparked an efflorescence of social media (Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter): basically, of forms of electronic media that lend themselves to being produced and consumed while pretending to do something else. I am convinced this is the primary reason for the rise of social media... social-media David Graeber
3477545 Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho. friends human-connection internet online social-media Barbara Kingsolver
911c225 For most of us, Facebook friends and Instagram followers are supplements to -- not surrogates for -- our social lives. As meaningful as the friendships we establish online can be, most of us are unsatisfied with virtual ties that never develop into face-to-face relationships. Building real connections requires a shared physical environment -- a social infrastructure. social-infrastructure social-media social-relationships Eric Klinenberg
2e79780 That's why I'm not on social media. People are way too open about their private lives. I don't need to see pictures of what somebody had for lunch or hear about how difficult their last bowel movement was or see on a map where they were when either one happened. social-media Janet Evanovich
82ad0bf Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone. NetworkEtiquette.net etiquette internet netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette rules-of-netiquette social social-media social-network social-networking David Chiles
7dd4040 Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net internet internet-etiquette internet-manners manners micro-blog mobile netiquette online online-education social-media social-network tweet tweeting twitter web David Chiles
f7898e9 Traditional values are not gone. They are good netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net digital etiquette internet-etiquette manners mobile netiquette netiquette-rules online rules-for-netiquette social-media traditional-values web David Chiles
b482ddf It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net digital etiquette facebook internet manners netiquette-rules online rules-for-netiquette social-media social-network social-networking David Chiles
085c1c0 It's good netiquette to provide links in updates. Everyone does not know what you know. NetworkEtiquette.net facebook internet-manners netiquette rules-for-netiquette rules-of-netiquette social-media social-networking David Chiles
c7d7366 It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net digital-etiquette email etiquette facebook internet internet-etiquette internet-manners linkedin manners micro-blog netiquette network-etiquette social-media twitter David Chiles
4be1501 Stay cool is the netiquette rule, if flamed. Responding is for a fool. NetworkEtiquette.net flame good-netiquette internet-etiquette internet-manners net-etiquette netiquette netiquette-rule netiquette-rules online-etiquette rules-for-netiquette social-media troll David Chiles
c4694b3 Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net etiquette internet manners mobile net netiquette online rules-for-netiquette rules-of-netiquette social-media web website David Chiles
1c1dec3 It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships. NetworkEtiquette.net engage internet internet-manners netiquette netiquette-rules online rules-for-netiquette social-media web David Chiles
0f41ae3 Good updates are nice, as a matter of netiquette. Bad ones are negative. NetworkEtiquette.net etiquette-rules facebook good-reads goodreads internet-etiquette micro-blog netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette social-media social-network David Chiles
6700990 Soon after Justine Sacco's shaming, I was talking with a friend, a journalist, who told me he had so many jokes, little observations, potentially risque thoughts, that he wouldn't dare to post online anymore. 'I suddenly feel with social media like I'm tiptoeing around an unpredictable, angry, unbalanced parent who might strike out at any moment,' he said. 'It's horrible.' He didn't want me to name him, he said, in case it sparked something off. We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age. 'Look!' we're saying. 'WE'RE normal! THIS is the average!' We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside of it. normality social-media Jon Ronson
2291542 "Lois Lerner and the tea social gathering scandal In September 2013, following 4 months of public scrutiny, Lois Lerner resigned from her place within the IRS. Lerner had been placed on paid depart in Could the identical 12 months and was subject to a review board which seemed set to fireside her, the choice to resign was successfully forced upon her. While in the Internal Income Service, Lerner had been head of the exempt organizations division, which processed claims from groups making use of for exemption from paying tax. This put her in command of over 900 IRS workers with a budget of practically $100 million. No matter happened to the times the place public officers had been on the level of wetting their pants after they had been caught even stepping on fly. Accountability has been thrown out of the window and this may be evidenced by the truth that in the last few years, not accountability review committee has really held anyone accountable for any improper doing and all they do is find scapegoats. As many would ask how much longer this might go on, Ms. Lerner may as nicely be given a star for her impeccable service to her nation. It is simply a looking out for our personal scenario. social-media Christine Feehan
12d09b3 Even the Internet, which was supposed to deliver unprecedented cultural diversity ad democratic communication, has become an echo chamber where people see and hear what they already believe. social-media technology Eric Klinenberg
019e9a8 Social media, for all their powers, cannot give us what we get from churches, unions, athletic clubs, and welfare states. They are neither a safety net nor a gathering place. In fact, insider accounts from Silicon Valley tech companies establish that keeping people on their screens, rather than in the world of face-to-face interaction, is a key priority of designers and engineers. social-infrastructure social-media Eric Klinenberg
c22ef59 Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Beautiful - Highly appealing to the senses and mind. NetworkEtiqeutte.net blog-spot cyber digital-etiquette internet-etiquette internet-manners netiquette network-etiquette positive post social-media social-network status-update word David Chiles
75d7065 Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able - having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym. NetworkEtiquette.net blog definition digital-etiquette effective-communication good internet-etiquette netiquette nice positive proper social-media social-network status-update word words David Chiles
1adcc77 Use Secure Sites: It is proper netiquette to use secure websites whenever possible. NetworkEtiquette.net digital-etiquette ecommerce etiquette-rules internet-etiquette internet-safety internet-security mobile netiquette netiquette-rules online-etiquette online-shopping rules-for-netiquette social-media David Chiles
d0308f8 For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away. popularity reputation social-media Rebecca Goldstein