Brad Rourke

Category: social networks

  • The Death and Birth of My Facebook Profile

    A word to the wise. My original, longstanding, totally legit Facebook account was disabled today because a scammer used my photos in a fake account under a different name. Facebook shut down my account for pretending to be someone I was not, even after I sent a photo of my ID through proper channels. This…

  • Fail: Back to Square One With Facebook

    Yesterday I posted a brief message on Facebook. “Strongly considering deleting all social media apps in order to limit distracting use. Thoughts?” This generated some conversation and I thought I would update my friends. As I began to write a new post, it became lengthy so I thought I would put it here. Firstly, I realize that…

  • Engaged, Not Engaged?

    At the college fair, an admissions officer told us, “I have never seen a couple more disinterested than you two.” Boy, was he wrong.

  • Our Duty In The Brave New Panopticon

    I have always been fascinated with the Panopticon. It figured in an essay I wrote about leadership some time ago, but my interest in it goes way back. As social media, and especially Facebook, has grown and evolved over the past handful of years, I keep thinking it is time to revisit the panopticon. With…

  • Five Rules To Live In Public

    Five Rules To Live In Public

    For some reason (an intersection between tech-geek tendencies and narcissism, no doubt), I have been an early adopter when it comes to the self-publishing elements enabled by the Web. I started blogging before the word had been coined, was an early adopter of Twitter (March 2007), Facebook, and more. The advent of the Social Web has…

  • How To Use Facebook's New 'Subscribe' Feature

    Facebook has just unveiled a new feature they call “Subscribe.” Essentially, you can now follow people without friending them. I created this quick screencast to show how it works. It’s totally simple:

  • Google+, Circles, and Facebook (And: How To Make Facebook Act Like G+)

    Google+, Circles, and Facebook (And: How To Make Facebook Act Like G+)

    On June 28, 2011, Google pleased geeks worldwide by unveiling their third try at social networking: Google+, or G+. While the previous attempts met with at best only mild success (Orkut is popular in Brazil but few other places, and Google Buzz remains a sideline for most), G+ has seen quick adoption and quick praise…

  • Facebook And Twitter: Fitting Your Voice To The Environment

    Last night I had the good fortune (along with Cynthia Cotte Griffiths who recently launched Online and In Person) to attend the first DC-area meetup convened by Facebook + Journalists at American University. It included a great panel discussion that included friends Mandy Jenkins (social news editor at Huffington Post) and Ian Shapira (enterprise reporter…