If you’ve never played the online game Candy Crush, you might only know it from the requests to play that clutter up social media. That, by the way, is a problem with your privacy settings on Facebook. If you’re getting anything you don’t want on your page, it’s your fault. You can prevent it. But people would rather complain. And I digress. …
A woman who made a bet with friends found her exact replica in less than a month thanks to social media. Although the search was worldwide, Naimh Geaney from Dublin, Ireland found her mirror image in a stranger who lived only an hour’s drive away. …
There will always be people who behave badly but I wonder if some have changed their ways because of social media? …
A study came out from Pew Research that claimed those on social media are less likely to give their opinions, especially when they’re pretty sure their friends will disagree. They say the perception that grumpy contradictory people flood Facebook, Twitter etc is flawed. I say perception is reality. So I randt. …
Brandt’s Randt – Social Media Debbie Downers Read More »
It’s so COOL to be negative about something everybody loves. We saw it with Robin Williams. In every stream expressing understandable surprise and sadness about Williams’ death, there was at least one fly in the ointment. My favourite? The guy who wrote, “my uncle killed himself last year. Where was the worldwide outpouring for him?” That’s what the social media BLOCK feature is for.
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Hating on the Haters Read More »
The 1,000,000th photo of a kid with ice cream all over their face sent me over the edge! I love kids. Kids are messy. Stuff happens. But it’s not adorable, like many parents think. So I randt. …
Brandt’s Randt – Please Use Your Wet-Naps! Read More »
These silly little crazes have limited shelf-lives but sometimes they’re not limited enough. Either that or my cat needs to get more inquisitive.  It will all make sense after you hear Brandt’s Randt. …
Brandt’s Randt – Selfies Read More »
I really wish my “friends” on Facebook would be a little more skeptical.  And that’s what launched Friday’s Brandt’s Randt. …
Brandt’s Randt – Social Media Scammers Read More »
Twitter is so much fun. I love it for networking, for catching up on articles I may have missed that someone else thinks to tweet and for exercising the latent part of my psyche that would have loved to try my hand at comedy. Â To wit, I present some of my own, original favourite tweets of 2012 and then some of my favourites of people I follow and admire. Â …
You don’t have to be a Facebook user to appreciate this. Â Somehow, I was selected as one of the users who would test a new Scrabble board on Facebook. Â I didn’t ask for it. I didn’t even want it to change. Â But there it is, in all of its annoying glory. Â …
This is the Complaints Department. Please Hold. Read More »
There are some real dinosaurs in the journalism game. Â I just can’t understand the way some of them cling to the “way things have always been done” and refuse to realize that the world is being shaped by young geeks and we’d better fall in line or get left behind. Â …