Tag: Facebook

  • Race, American Exceptionalism, and the Delicate Art of Criticizing Obama

    To describe Mr. Obama’s attitude as anti-American is to caricature it. But he does seem motivated by a vision of America as just one more unremarkable country among many. That point of view has a constituency — but I’m not part of it.

  • Facebook Continues to Peddle Scams To Its Members

    (Welcome, Social Media Today readers. While you’re here you might want to look at other posts under my Social Media tag.) Several weeks ago, I wrote about having been taken in by an IQ test scam on Facebook.   Lots of other people have also written about that and other scams.  Somehow I naively thought […]

  • Think Twice Before Having Fun on Facebook

    (I subsequently wrote a followup to this post.) (Insert cruel joke here about my apparent IQ) I love the Internet. For starters, I met the Web Goddess on an online divorce support group. Thanks to the Internet, I have been able to pontificate on this blog to an audience of literally dozens of people who […]