Hiding behind a nickname

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((Hello people. Yup, not dead, just been away from blogging for a good while. If you want to catch up, I’m currently quite active on The Secret World or writing book ramblings on Goodreads.))

Anyway, reading this year’s themes for the high school graduation exams, I was once again annoyed by the reappearance of the old platitude of “people online hide behind a nickname”. Uhm, sure, some people do, just like some people hide behind a nickname in real life, … (Read more)

(Social) networking failure

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I’m sick and tired of hearing “you can’t really know someone via the internet, you need to meet them in real life”, there are so many things wrong with that that I don’t even know where to start with.

First of all, no matter what Facebook calls them, social networks are not there to make friends. Sharing cat videos on social networks is not a ‘virtual friendship’, not because of the ‘virtual’ part but because it’s not a friendship; if … (Read more)

Che palle i blog!

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Un post che inizia così sul blog di una persona che (perdonatemi la ridondanza) ha un blog potrebbe sembrare alquanto strano. Invece ricade in quella categoria di post che viene indicata come rigurgito insensato scritto da chi non ha compreso niente del mezzo, della blogosfera, degli aggregator, del web semantico, del sarcazzo di sarcazzonia e chi più ne ha più ne metta (altri, più semplicemente, parlerebbero di invidia perché il blog ha pochi hit).

Il punto del post (post! che … (Read more)