Facebook can be a fascinating space. Facebook can also be a bore. I am always disappointed by friends who post wall updates that are copied and pasted from other sources.
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This morning, at 9:27am, I reached that magical, if mythical, Facebook manna milestone of having 5,000 friends! That’s the limit. Facebook won’t let me have more than 5,000 friends. I’ve maxed out my Facebook social network. Now what?
Continue reading → Facebook as Probiotic: I Now Have 5,000 Friends
Now is the time of the year when we must inventory our incendiaries and countenance our joy.
Enjoy your friends.
Welcome your enemies.
Live to fight another joyous day.
You know you’ve hit the Big Time on the Internet when people start clinging to you by writing about you on their blogs, sending you email and talking about you on other people’s websites without your direct intervention or knowledge.
Sometimes your fans are kind.
Oftentimes your former sycophants are cruel.
You then take the good with the bad — the admiring with the obsessed — and find pleasure and peace in knowing they are all propagating the brand, creating a buzz and keeping your name and your presence out there in the world for everyone else to read and then discover the truth of you on their own; thus creating a whole new gang of friends and foes who will willingly and unwittingly perpetuate your growing circle of fame and power.
Love the lovers; love the haters — and take no reality from either.
I’m not sure what it says about me but most of my closest friends are on some kind of medication to make them less wacky — and when I say “wacky” I mean it in the best and most admirable way. A few of the medications my friends swallow every day include Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Zoloft, Luvox and Prozac. Continue reading → Most of My Friends are Medicated
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