Is Facebook Ruining Dating for Gen Y?
Categories: Live
As seen in my last post, social media is an integral part of my life, like many Gen Y’ers. However, I think that social media may be ruining a crucial part of our lives – dating. A surprising statement for someone that shares her life with strangers 24/7, but raise your hand if you’ve ever [...]
TNGG Blackout – Five Days Being Social-Less
Categories: Connect
I’ll freely admit that I’m a social networking addict. Like a bad episode of A&E’s Intervention, I saw all the warning signs but did nothing to stop. I couldn’t go a day without updating my twitter accounts (yes, two). I couldn’t stand waiting around for someone without checking Facebook. So when the opportunity came along [...]
Hey Social Media, brb!
Categories: Connect
On a cold, dark Tuesday night, alone in my room, I wrote a short note saying goodbye to my friends, my followers, and the world. Starting Wednesday I would abandon updates, forget Facebook, turn away from Tumblr—I was quitting social media! Along with several TNGG members, we decided to experience the effects of removing social [...]
Analog > Digital
Categories: Connect
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – there’s something to be said for actual, face-to-face human contact. You can’t replace it. You can’t duplicate it. Even in this day and age, where you can feasibly know every important piece of information about someone’s life without ever having spoken to them – or, [...]
Social Media: A Virtual College Party
Categories: Connect
Here’s something that’s completely obvious: social media has totally changed the way we interact with others. But now, here’s something that might not be so obvious: social media has changed our friendships – how we start them, how we maintain them, and even what we consider a friendship. When you’re in pre-school and kindergarten, you [...]
The Google Buzz Value
Categories: Connect
I want to start out by saying that I am a Google fan all the way. Google.com is my homepage. I use the phrase “just Google it” just about anywhere and with anyone. If you don’t use Gmail you’re probably not a very good friend of mine. And I’m ashamed to say that I even [...]
Growing Up Facebook
Categories: Connect
I migrated North to attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine in the fall of 2002. Like me, Mark Zuckerberg was settling into his Cambridge dorm room. At the end of our sophomore years, Zuckerberg would use Harvard, along with Ivy League, and select Northeast colleges, to launch an online community that has since revolutionized the [...]
The Digital Native Goes Offline
Categories: Connect
The first thing I do every morning, even before taking a shower, used to be checking my Facebook and Twitter. From the minute I wake up to the minute I turn off my light in the night I used to be on Facebook and Twitter. And it wasn’t only at home, but even at work, [...]
There’s Something About Twitter
Categories: Connect
Conversation with friend while randomly walking around the neighborhood: Friend (very, very curious): So you met these people on Twitter? Me (not liking where this is going): Yeah. Friend (jeers): I thought you were smarter than that. Me (offended): Whaddayamean? What’s that sposta mean? Friend (now choosing his words carefully): I mean, it’s just so…16… [...]
Facebook: Are you really who you say you are?
Categories: Connect
Will change personality for work… During my junior year participating in the National Student Advertising Competition team (NSAC) I became very close with a girl on my creative team, Nicole. Over the summer we both acquired jobs at different advertising agencies in our college town.We liked to joke around about how important we were and [...]
