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The Nine Worst Abbreviations and Slang Used Today in Texting, Twitter and Facebook

I understand.  You’re on Twitter and you have something so important to say, but you can’t get it into 140 characters.  Or you’re texting a friend and don’t have enough time to write full words before you crash into the … Continue reading

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50 reasons I won’t share, stumble, like, or RT your content and 5 reasons I will.

For those of us who blog or tweet or use social media for any significant portion of our day, there’s little that is more satisfying than seeing our creation shared by others who have appreciated it. Your baby – something … Continue reading

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Nobody cares what your Klout is.

Klout is a site that uses hoodoo, weather patterns, and random calculations to assign you a score based on your ability as a user of Twitter. Yes, it’s as stupid as it sounds and encourages people to come up with … Continue reading

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Protesting on the Internet (Or, what I should have posted yesterday instead of writing about pedophiles)

In other Avita-news, today is the birthday of my friend Its Toni!  Happy birthday, Toni! Also, have you signed up to be on my Christmas card mailing list yet?

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A breakdown of people who follow @LadyGaGa on Twitter

According to CNN, Lady GaGa is now the celebrity with the most followers on Twitter, with 5,720,931 followers as of yesterday morning. I thought I’d take a scientific look at the types of people who follow the bizarre performance artist: … Continue reading

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Has Twitter killed blogging? Discuss.

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Even More Twitter Through History

First, there was Twitter throughout history. Then there was more Twitter throughout history. And now we have even more! Twitter, for those of you ancient ones who think sexting is putting things in groups of six, is a microblogging site … Continue reading

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Twitter: Who should you follow?

Yesterday, I was reading the tweets of a friend who had found FriendOrFollow.com. She was hurt by discovering that some of the people she considered in her “circle” weren’t following her on Twitter, even though she was following them. Her … Continue reading

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Marry, Fuck, or Kill?

After playing around with the new Twitter list function and randomly adding all people I’m following into either a “marry“, “fuck“, or “kill” list, I decided that we should play that game. Out of the following groups, who would you … Continue reading

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Avitter: The anti-social network #izeafest

After spending a weekend at IZEAfest listening to people talk about social networking and their expertise in said arena, I have decided that I need to be at the forefront of a new trend. I want to be the pioneer … Continue reading

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