Tom Goskar

Archaeologist, researcher, curator and folklorist

Category: Social Networking

  • Social media: the decline of Twitter and the rise of Mastodon

    Social media: the decline of Twitter and the rise of Mastodon

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    I was an early adopter of Twitter in early 2007. I used to have a three-letter username (@tag) and there weren’t even a million users globally. When I started using it, most people thought it was a ridiculous and vain thing to do – write short updates in 140 characters and interact with strangers. Always…

  • Facebook and User Content

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    From Facebook‘s Terms of Use: By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat,…

  • Facebook is morphing steadily into MySpace

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    I have a MySpace account purely because I have a few friends on there, and have had to use it to send the odd message once in a blue moon. I hate the way MySpace looks – it’s cluttered, slow, gaudy, clunky, and I just don’t like it. When Facebook came around, naturally, I signed…