Two weeks ago, Facebook accused me of something I've never been accused of before: automated behavior. And they warned me that they might temporarily restrict my account or even permanently disable it if I didn't knock it off. In recent years I haven't actually

I deactivated my Twitter account this week. They give you a 30-day grace period to change your mind before it's permanently deleted, so May 25 will be the day I toast the fun I had on Twitter, looking forward to all the hours I'll be spending

After an amazing 2018, I have big plans for New Year's Eve: I'll be deleting my Facebook account at the stroke of midnight (PST) on Monday, 12/31/2018. > UPDATE: I deactivated my account rather than deleting it, because I learned that deleting would also

If you like to take pictures with a device other than your smartphone (say, a camera) and you use Instagram, you've probably come across an annoying limitation: when you go to Instagram [https://instagram.com] in a web browser on a PC, Mac, or Linux computer, you can&

We all know that there are countless thousands of bots on Twitter, and today I spent some time getting to know a little more about a few of them. My interest was piqued by a tweet [https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/833729147604234240] from Eliot Higgins, a researcher at King’s

> “Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.”– Vaclav Havel I love Vaclav Havel, but I don’t agree. The basic law of my