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Another reason I hate Facebook

So someone asked to be Facebook friends with a message saying they read and enjoy this blog. Great!1 Only, I pretty much hate Facebook and wish I didn’t have to be there (to keep up with a few family and friends who aren’t online anywhere else). All my Bookface “friends” I’ve met face-to-face, and there [...]

Artificial construction of social categories

Someone (who I won’t name, but she’s given me permission to use the quote) answered my question about her love life the other day with the following: “I’m in a complicated relationship on facebook yet single on bebo.”

Friends list on LibraryThing

LibraryThing has split the ‘watchlist’ option into two: ‘interesting libraries’ and ‘friends’. So if anyone I actually know is using it, drop me a friend request. As you might have guessed, my LT name is tikitu. (I don’t, as a general rule, do social networking. But I’m genuinely interested in the books people I know [...]