Am I being twitterstalked?

A while back, I wondered why every Twitter user seemed to have more people who follow him than people he follows. Amazingly enough, I am now in this situation; right now I have 8 followers, while I am following 6 people.
When I went to look at the profile of the latest person to follow me, [...]

My friends are so 20th century…

I finally found another (real as opposed to virtual) friend on Facebook, about three weeks after I added my last “real” friend. (I still don’t have any actual friends on Twitter.) I guess when you’re old and decrepit (my best friend’s younger brother has a son graduating from high school…)  you don’t go for these [...]

How can everybody have more Twitter followers than “followees”?

I noticed that most people on Twitter seem to have more followers than “followees.” (Yes, I know this observation has no scientific validity.) So I decided to do some not-exactly random sampling.

On the Twitter website, I searched for “Davis, CA” and looked at the profiles for the first 15 people who had activity within the [...]

I obviously have the wrong types of friends…

When I signed up for Facebook several months ago, I discovered that none of my (actual) friends have an account. Basically, I’ve added relatives and classmates, so I can still count the number of Facebook friends on the fingers of my two hands.
I decided to sign up for Twitter today, and none of my email [...]