Every time I teach a class on social media, I begin by fessing up to my love/hate relationship with the platforms. My favorite to pick on is Facebook. I had one student a few years ago who politely listened to my rants until halfway through the semester when she informed me her husband worked at […]
What I Learned During The Facebook And Instagram Outage
A funny thing happened during the Facebook, Instagram and What’s App outage this week. We all survived. The world kept spinning. Nobody died because of it – at least not that we know of and Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for world domination was met with the harsh, cruel reality that his social kingdom was not necessary […]
Three Good Reasons To Get Newsprint On Your Hands
One of the first things I learned when I started selling radio ads was from one of my colleagues. That was to read the newspapers and never to limit myself to just one. This was long before the wide selection of 24/7 cable news channels, social media networks and the Internet that clutter the landscape […]
When The Best Leftovers Are The Moments
When I was growing up holidays were an endless stream of relatives, food, music and laughter. There was rarely an elegant table setting and quiet conversation. That’s not how the Greeks in my life did things. There were always more people than room at the table and pastisto and spanakopita as side dishes to […]
Why Quitting Facebook Will Not Fix The Real Issue
The biggest news in my Facebook feed this week is Facebook. Everyone is up in arms at the discovery that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from Facebook that apparently was then used to deliberately attempt to sway the 2016 Election. People are genuinely startled that (a) Facebook is using their data and (b) data mining has […]
When The New Normal Becomes The New Numbness
Since Tuesday I’ve been experiencing something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around. It’s unusual for me, an emotional Scorpio of Greek heritage known to cry at a Hallmark commercial, who would not ride the subway for months after 9/11 to react in such a manner, but since I heard the news of this […]
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