My absence from the social media scene during summer, mainly based on a number of all-too time-consuming assignments, has lead me to realise that I simply do not miss it, save for blogging, as you will understand. And I think I know why, as I suspect I really tired of the social media more than a decade ago. “Hang on,” you say? “Social media didn’t exist at the time”?
Dear reader, I beg to differ.
The sudden enthusiasm for web 2.0 and, in particular, the scores of social media outlets emerging over the …

Are we having fun yet, now that we have our Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Blogger, WordPress, Spotify, Skype and Google accounts, to mention but a few?
Certainly, some may find it all rewarding, in some peculiar way, but you have to admit that some of the above mentioned services are downright intrusive. At least I feel that to be the case with Facebook – and yet I’ve kept my once accidentally opened account. A couple of years ago I needed access to a Facebook group while researching a story I …

I was approached by my oldest son’s nanny (hei, De, Heidi!), whose boyfriend taught my son every car make in the world, or so it would seem, on Facebook some time ago, and now we are friends. We’re all friends over at Facebook. That aside, it’s actually quite nice to keep track of old acquaintances’ whereabouts – or at least to receive reassurances that everything’s just fine and dandy. Anywho, I considered introducing her to Anders (that’s my oldest son), now 20, and very much in his coming of age, …