Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Now Can We Have a “Dislike” Button?
JIMMY FOWLERMaybe Mark Zuckerberg should consider changing the onscreen color of Facebook from blue to green: Envy would appear to be the biggest emotion the social media site inspires, if you believe recent academic studies that have char...
Clueless: Pegasus News, TCU 360 Assess Fort Worth’s Indie Scene
ANTHONY MARIANIThe Fort Worth music scene is highly amused. And maybe overreacting a bit. Earlier today, Pegasus News, a Dallas-centric online news outlet, reprinted a story that originally appeared in a recent edition of TCU 360, a student m...
Facebook Fact: Cowboys Are World’s Team
Jeff PrinceA Pittsburgh Steelers fan in this office (who will remain Anthonameless) can’t stand to hear the Dallas Cowboys called America’s Team. Anthonameless grew up in Pittsburgh and watched the Steelers get lucky in a coup...
Facebook In The Garden
Andrew McLemoreIs Facebook making us lonely? The answer is murky at best, but this Atlantic cover story makes a valiant attempt to lay the foundation for a substantive discussion. Constantly connected, always distracted, we are all of us alon...
Thank God For Facebook…
Jeff Prince…otherwise our very own American Airlines would be the most hated company in the land. 24/7 Wall Street crunched numbers and analyzed consumer data to rank the 10 most hated companies. The list doesn’t make sense to...
Stand by Zio Carlo?
Last CallAs I write this, Zio Carlo Brew Pub is still trying to recover from some bad press. By now you know about owner Carlo Galotto’s drunken Facebook fusillade against people he referred to as “spoiled Obama kids,” as well as ...
The Zio Carlo Facebook Meltdown
Anthony MarianiDirty bathrooms, awful service, high prices: all common ways to kill business. Having a political meltdown on Facebook, though, is easily the most entertaining. So late last night (Monday), the owner of the newly opened Zio Car...
Facebook Changes Deserve A Like
Jeff PrinceYesterday I typed a status update saying I didn’t understand all the furor regarding FB changes. You’d have thought I denied the Holocaust and spat on the pope. Someone even accused me of being a spy (all in good fa...
Willow Palin, Mean Girl
Kristian LinHere’s a bigger internet brushfire than whether hackers are keeping Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars. Responding to a poster named Tre criticizing the new reality TV show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Bristol’s...
NUD Needs U — But Not U
Jeff PrinceFinally, National Unfriend Day (NUD) is here and I can start trimming the fat off my list of Facebook friends without feeling guilty. The brainchild of talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, NUD is a free pass to cleanse your FB page of ...
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