Why I Took a Facebook Hiatus
Facebook is addictive. You feel inclined to read, stalk and share. Only in this forum would stalking be the more acceptable practice of the three. In this case, it's the sharing that's the problem.
Facebook is addictive. You feel inclined to read, stalk and share. Only in this forum would stalking be the more acceptable practice of the three. In this case, it's the sharing that's the problem.
Tamara Shayne Kagel | Posted 04.27.2012
Why must we shout from the rooftops when our boyfriends are napping on the job? If you ever feel like tweeting the following or some variation thereof, stop -- call someone up, write in a diary, or confess to a stranger.
The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 04.12.2012
You could argue that your clever Facebook status updates and Frank Bruni-esque Yelp reviews are priceless, but the user data you generate can be conve...
HelloGiggles | Posted 02.06.2012
I wasn't aware of fellow HelloGiggles contributor Bobby Box's previous post on the top ten most inane Facebook statuses when I hit a social media wall...
Rachel Weight | Posted 01.22.2012
How many random people from your life do you know too much about because of what they posted as their status?
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. | Posted 11.13.2011
1. Between "Up in the Air" and "Contagion," aren't you starting to rethink the common wisdom on who cheats? 2. Did you convince yourself that none of...
Katie Hawkes | Posted 05.25.2011
You know you're starting to become predictable when you receive the following comment on your Facebook status: "Like Like Like! I hope there's a Huffi...
Christopher Noxon | Posted 05.25.2011
This Friday I will join friends in the Jewish nonprofit Reboot in a National Day of Unplugging. No phones, no computers, no TV, no iPhone, no TV. For 24 hours.
Daniel Sieberg | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm Daniel Sieberg. I'm a recovering social network addict. And my life is not a status update.
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
If you hoping for (or dreading) indications of a clear shift in voter preferences on the surveys released in the last 24 hours, you will not find them...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
The most important thing to keep in mind about pre-election polls is that they come with random variability built-in. That mostly predictable variatio...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Not surprisingly, yesterday was another heavy day of new poll releases: 37 new statewide surveys and 10 national releases, yet these surveys indicate ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Is the race for president "narrowing" enough for John McCain to catch Barack Obama by Tuesday? While our national trend has closed slightly over the l...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
We logged 38 new surveys yesterday. Of these, 20 were updates from surveys conducted earlier in October by the same pollster, and 15 of the 20 showed ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Today's update is posting a little earlier and is slightly abbreviated (for reasons that will be clear in the next post). We had what I believe is a n...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
All of the speculation about polls this week will center around two: Are we seeing any meaningful trends in the margins by which Barack Obama leads Jo...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday's new polls helped solidify Barack Obama's standing on our electoral map, although the most recent updates and national tracking polls showi...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday's 17 new statewide and 12 new national poll releases look like a picture of stability in the race for President. The state of Washington shi...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
The 26 new statewide polls logged yesterday finally show some lagging indication of the slight narrowing of the Obama margin we saw over the weekend i...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
As noted here last night, John McCain has slightly narrowed Barack Obama's lead on our national trend estimate over the last week, but aside from the ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Saturdays are typically slow for new statewide poll releases, but with Election Day just two weeks away, new surveys yesterday from PPP and Daily Kos/...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday we added 13 new statewide database, and these new surveys mostly confirm what we already knew. Most represent updates since September and sh...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Before the debates (and the quick reaction surveys released late last night), the flood of new surveys continued, as we logged 22 new statewide polls ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
The last 24 hours were relatively slow for new statewide polls, mostly because I included the crack-of-dawn releases by Quinnipiac University in yeste...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
I delayed this morning's update to include the new Quinnipiac surveys that include pre- and post-debate samples in the battleground states of Colorado...
Natalie Thomas | Posted 05.20.2012