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Needing the Illusion of Grandeur to Be Real

In today’s world, we are bombarded with bad news. Murders, holes in the ozone, wars, people who are starving, people who are homeless, bad unemployment…

Why do we post the things we do to the online world?

Back in 2010, I think, I decided that I was done with Facebook. OK, this wasn’t the first time I had come to that conclusion…

A Letter To Those Of You With 1,500 Twitter Followers Or Fewer

Yesterday, shortly after the events in Boston started to unfold, a person who is very well known online still had their automated posts flowing into…

Rootless

About a year ago, Olivier Blanchard wrote a post called Social Media 1918. It’s an amazing post (obviously, if it is still on my mind…

Defining Social Media Friendships

If you have been around me much, you know that I’ve been very pensive regarding this whole social media…thing. There is of course the business…

A Letter To Those Of You Struggling With Infertility

Dear You, I know you are probably trying to stay anonymous. They call infertility one of those “silent” things people deal with. It’s too hard…