Rant

A person with fewer than five pictures on Facebook scares me more than a clown holding a bloody axe.  What the hell are they hiding?!!

Rant

I read the comments again. Began to seethe. Successfully closed browser. When you gaze too long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Rant

Whenever I come across the Facebook page of someone cute, and I find out that their profile is public, I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.  Six hundred pictures?  Don't mind if I do! 

Twenty years ago, possessing this many photos of a complete stranger would have been a prime indicator I was a burgeoning serial killer. Today, it's ... well, today, I guess we're all burgeoning serial killers.

69.) If you feel a need to post a comment anonymously, take a moment to consider whether you should be posting the comment at all.

99% of the time the answer is a resounding NO.

Rant

My favorite part of Twitter is saying something I think is really funny and then waiting anxiously while people fail to immediately validate me. 

68.) The paper résumé is dead.  The Web is your résumé. Social networks are your mass references.

Rant

Naming a blog is like naming a garage band.  It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to catch people's attention... and embarrass you years later when you're reminiscing about your youth.

Rant

LOL was once a meaningful acronym, but now, it's just a way of saying "I have nothing else to say."

Rant

There are days when I feel like the only one in the entire world who gets me is Google Auto Complete.

Rant

There are times that it's all I can do not to explain to real life people, "I'm so much cooler online."

Rant

Thanks to the internet, they may as well start calling television news "Old News." I can't remember the last time I saw a story of the evening news that hadn't crossed my feed reader hours or days earlier.

Rant

Anyone else find it confusing and creepy that all of the hottest porn on Tumblr is collected by underage teenage girls? Where were these girls when I was sixteen?

Rant

Facebook is a lot like a fridge. Whenever you're bored or can't sleep, you open and close it every couple of minutes to see if there's anything good, but nothing ever changes.

36.) If you aren't comfortable placing the same information on a sign in your front yard, don't put it online.

Your online life is more public than you think.  Always.

27.) If you're not paying for it, you're the product.

We all want stuff for free, but we rarely stop to consider what the hidden costs attach to the things we consider free. Costs like privacy and peace of mind. I lifted this rule from a discussion on MetaFilter on the overhaul of the social aggregation news site Digg last year. The site's redesign had very little to do with improving the user experience and a whole lot to do with positioning users to see content they're intended to see.