My most interesting conversation on the Internet

I’ve been spending a lot of time plurking lately. It is similar to twitter, but is much easier to get into conversations with other users because the plurks and responses to plurks are threaded.
The website plurkmania.com has stats on each user.  There are over 52,000 plurkers, but over 34,000 described their relationship as “Not saying”. [...]

My new Internet obsession

I recently joined Plurk, which is best described as Twitter on a timeline. The more frequently you use it (by making posts (plurking), inviting friends, etc.), the more “karma” you get, which can earn you various upgrades on the site. However, your karma can also go down for various reasons, including posting too infrequently or [...]

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 [...]