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  hardie karges 9:29 am on July 24, 2014 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Asia ( 17 ), China ( 14 ), Chinatown, currency ( 2 ), Facebook ( 17 ), Hardie Karges ( 242 ), Likes ( 2 ), social media, Thailand ( 75 )   

  #Facebook #Chinatown: Where ‘Likes’ are the New Currency 

   

  

  Like Me, Baby…

  Strolling through Facebook now is like strolling through Chinatown or along a carnival midway, complete with barkers and colored balloons, signs and advertisements now occupying every available inch of empty space, imperceptibly creeping like Capitalism into our lives and our computers and smart phones like viruses (virii?), the good kind, friendly bacteria that you can live with. In Chinatown there IS no empty space. Social media has degenerated into one big tease: “You won’t believe this!” or “You’ve got to see what happened next!” or “Don’t forget to share.” Likes are the new currency.

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  hardie karges 4:25 pm on June 19, 2014 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Facebook ( 17 ), Hardie Karges ( 242 ), social media   

  Beyond Farcebook, hopefully, maybe, some day… 

  The best thing about Facebook, and the era it defines, is the possibility for direct honest open communication, a true communion of souls in this slow cool world of infrequent frequencies. Strong silent stuff sucks (tongue-twister: try to say that quickly four times). The worst part is the LCD effect–lowest common denominators (liquid crystal displays are okay), usually in the form of family photos (mostly good), partisan politics (mostly bad), and stupid pet tricks (enough already)….

  At least FB is better than other online ‘forums’ in which people can hide behind their cute little avatars, with the resultant vicious ‘trolling’. Still I prefer Highest Common Denominators, more like that yearly (monthly? weekly? daily?) trip to the museum. I mean: we all love good art, literature, and science, right? Wouldn’t it be nice if Facebook can smarten us up, and not just dumb us down? I remain optimistic, or at least, philosophical…
   
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  hardie karges 5:12 am on December 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: DJ, Facebook ( 17 ), Hardie Karges ( 242 ), internet ( 10 ), social media, VJ   

  FB Jockeys, Apply Here 

  Most people know where the term ‘DJ’ comes from—’disc jockey’ of course—and some of us can even remember MTV when it had actual music videos and the head-wagging self-swaggering personalities known as VJ’s—video jockeys. So what will they (we) call the self-appointed spinners of clips and quips, tunes and modern-day cryptological runes that populate our common playground and media ‘ground zero’ known as ‘FaceBook’? FJ’s? BJ’s? FBJ’s? Will this become a paid gig one day? Don’t put it past the Zucker-man in his bid to monetize the playground. It’s all fair game. I notice ads coming up now almost every time I ‘like’ anything. You would-be wannabe FBJ’s start getting your demo reel (file? down-load? flash-drive?) together. Auditions are in progress…