Cotemplating the virtual war underway for control of the Facebook landscape and where it might end.
Facebook: The AI War Zone
June 15th, 2024 Comments Off on Facebook: The AI War Zone
Tags: AI · artificial intelligence · Facebook · Meta · metaphor · Michae Robert Dyet
Facebook, Google and Kafka
February 2nd, 2024 Comments Off on Facebook, Google and Kafka
Pondering Facebook’s relationship with Google and the mysteries of Facebook’s algorithm.
Tags: Facebook · Franz Kafka · Google · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · The Metaphorphosis
When I Grow Old and Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled: Gravity Free
June 25th, 2022 Comments Off on When I Grow Old and Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled: Gravity Free
The latest in my “When I Grow Old and Wear the Bottom of My Trousers Rolled” series.
Tags: Facebook · Google · Meta · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Microsoft · T.S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Facebook Got Sucked into the Metaverse
October 30th, 2021 Comments Off on Facebook Got Sucked into the Metaverse
A lay explanation of what happened to Facebook with a few detours along the way.
Tags: Facebook · Instagram · metaphor · metaverse · Michael Robert Dyet · What's App
Social Media: Puppies, Parenting and the Wind
April 27th, 2019 Comments Off on Social Media: Puppies, Parenting and the Wind
Is the social media phenomenon a good thing, a bad thing or something in-between?
Tags: faceboo · Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · social media · YouTube
Facebook: Caught in the Virtual Vapour Trail
May 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Facebook: Caught in the Virtual Vapour Trail
Hmmm, is there a place for an aging baby boomer in the king of social networks? I learned this week that Facebook is about the break the 2 billion mark in users. Do you need to see that figure in numbers to grasp it? Here you go: 2,000,000,000. What’s more, Facebook is still growing at […]
Tags: Facebook · Mark Zuckerbeg · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet
Ode to Windows, Antisocial Media and Timelines That End in Rhyme
June 11th, 2016 Comments Off on Ode to Windows, Antisocial Media and Timelines That End in Rhyme
A digital immigrant’s Ode on no-choice software upgrades and the constantly evolving world of social media.
Tags: Facebook · Instagram · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Microsoft · Norton · Pinterest · Tumblr · Twitter · Windows 10
Facebook: From Virtual Space to Outer Space
April 29th, 2016 Comments Off on Facebook: From Virtual Space to Outer Space
A brief look at the exploding star of Facebook and its 10 year plan.
Tags: Facebook · Facebook Surround · Likes · Mark Zuckerberg · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Oculus Rift · virtual reality
Digital Immortality: Avatars Populated by Facebook and Twitter
April 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Digital Immortality: Avatars Populated by Facebook and Twitter
Pondering the prospect of “digital immortality”, how social media would be an enabler and questioning whether it is a time and place we really want to go.
Tags: artificial intelligence · avatars · digital immortality · Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Twitter
Shape-shifting Villains in the Lawless Ether of Cyberspace
February 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Shape-shifting Villains in the Lawless Ether of Cyberspace
The risks of having a virtual presence and a new interpretation of cyberspace.
Tags: cyberspace · Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Neo the chosen one · The Matrix · Wild Wild West · Wyatt Earp