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Facebook Is to Microsoft as Zuckerberg Is to Gates…?

Friday, August 1, 2014 at 6:23 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

A few years ago, I would’ve bet my life savings against the proposition that Facebook would become to social media what Microsoft has become to computer software. And I would’ve doubled down against the proposition that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg would someday emulate Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates by becoming the richest man in the world.… Read more.

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Facebook Friends?! Try Facebook’s Guinea Pigs

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 7:07 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Facebook users being spied on and used for data mining

People are up in arms about the recent revelation that Facebook manipulated its users during a psychological study… User Interface designers and researchers at places like Google, Facebook or Yahoo! regularly tweak the live site’s interface for a subset of visitors to see whether users behave differently in response. While this technique shines new light… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Edward Snowden, Facebook, Facebook data, Facebook psychology studies, Facebook user experiments, NSA, social media experiments, social media exploitation

Facebook Buys WhatsApp for Life Support

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 8:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Let’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your ‘friends’ share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters who keep begging you to ‘Like’ them or their page so they can make money off your ‘friendship.’ Then of course there are the myriad ways those little zuckerheads get… Read more.

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Facebook ‘Like’ an Infectious Disease

Friday, January 24, 2014 at 7:25 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Facebook as infectious disease

I’m not a stock analyst, and I don’t play one on this site. That said, here’s what iPINIONS wrote two years ago about the social contagion Facebook had become: [L]et’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your ‘friends’ share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: digital virality, Facebook, Facebook viral spread, social media contagion, social media epidemic, viral phenomenon

‘Is Facebook the Next Myspace?’

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Here’s the warning I issued almost a year ago when Facebook became the latest tech sensation to go public: Let’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your ‘friends’ share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters who keep begging you to ‘Like’ them or their page… Read more.

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Facebook, face-plant

Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 6:33 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The fact that the stock price flatlined on its first day of trading yesterday (opening at $38 and closing at $38.23 instead of at twice or three times that amount as analysts predicted) should provide a rude awakening for all of the suckers who bought the hype. I’m sure they won’t like that. (“Facebook IPO… Read more.

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Facebook IPO just floating another tech bubble…

Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 7:01 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

And it’s bound to go bust a lot sooner than others. But let’s face it, haven’t you had enough of the mundane and often-recycled crap your “friends” share … every day, several times a day? Even worse are the hucksters who keep begging you to “Like” their page so they can make money off your “friendship.” Then… Read more.

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Friday, September 2, 2011 at 6:06 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
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Dear “Friends” It was just brought to my attention within the past 24 hours that an ostensibly well-intentioned person – whom I don’t even know – had set up a Facebook page in my name without my knowledge or consent. Please be advised that I do not have, and have never had, a Facebook account.… Read more.

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