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theweek.com - 3/6/2009

Twitter vs. Facebook

— theweek.com — MySpace all but vanquished, Facebook has a new social networking rival... (more) Twitter vs. Facebook

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economist.com - 3/4/2009

Primates on Facebook

— economist.com — Even online, the neocortex is the limit that Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase... the size of human social groups is an obvious hypothesis, given that they reduce a lot of the friction and cost involved in keeping in touch ... (more) Primates on Facebook

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youtube.com - 3/12/2009

Rove: Bush won't be twittering, won't be on Facebook (video)

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Lowe in the House
Anne Schroeder's Blog — ... And for fun, check out Weekly Standard's Matt Labash on his hopeful demise of Facebook. Problem #1: "...that like so many things that have menaced our country (the Unabomber, Love Story, David Gergen) came to us from Harvard but has now worked its insidious hooks into every crevice of society." Problem #2: His wife loves it. "There are worse things she could become, I suppose: a Meth dealer, a UPS delivery-man groupie, a Twitterer. Still, it's unsettling."

Making the World Safe for Banality
The American Scene — Scott Payne has a piece on “glocalism” (the academy’s and my term, not his) that you should really read all of, but on his way to some wonderful (non-curmudgeony!) insights and injunctions he stumbles into an all too typical curmudgeon trope. To wit: bq….a meaningful exchange and cultivation of community via platforms like Facebook and Twitter seems to the experiential exception, not the rule. More often than not, the kind of back and forth in which one engages when one these sites is a trade of surfaces and vapidity. As such, many folks grappling with questions about the influence of technology on the way we live are ...