A list of ways to block trolls on Twitter, including filtering, bulk blocking, and individual blocking/muting.
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Tag: social media
Five annoying aspects about websites
A look at five things about websites that I dislike, including site notifications, lack of HTTPS, and autoplaying videos.
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Reddit vs. Wall Street, or the Clash of Two Worlds
The big Wall Street news over the past few weeks has involved, of all things, Reddit. There’s been a lot written about this, mostly to
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Trump banned from Twitter; Parler also kicked offline
Last Wednesday’s riot by Trump supporters at the Capitol building in Washington, DC was definitely a low point in an already-awful presidency. While there’s been
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Blog status update (August 2020): My Facebook page is back (yet again)
Time for another blog status update… Facebook and Instagram pages return (again) Photo by opopododo (Flickr / CC BY / cropped from original) Since the
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What’s the future of blogging, or my blog?
Lately, I’ve read about several longtime comic bloggers shutting down their blogs and giving up blogging. This is on top of reading other articles about
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Media outlets and Black Lives Matter tweets
The past week has seen numerous protests nationwide sparked by Minneapolis police officers killing George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man. This round of Black Lives
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My social network usage (Spring 2020)
Here’s my annual look at my current social network usage. Facebook I shuttered the blog’s Facebook page in late 2018, and not reopened it since.
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A look at Facebook in the 2010s
Facebook rose over the 2010s to become synonymous with the phrase “social media.” Early on in the decade, Facebook was seen as reasonably benign, or
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Blog status update (November 2019): Pinterest and Patreon return
Here are the latest updates to my blog since I last wrote about such back in September. Pinterest is back; Instagram is gone Once again,
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