Category: Social Networks

You can now list the companies iRez Salon and Vanessa Blaylock Company on your LinkedIn “Experience”

Vanessa a Google fangirl? Strange but true! I love Google! Google+ Rocks! I want to have Vic…

You know, I have been thinking about community a  lot lately. A few weeks ago, Vaneeesa posted…

Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story…

ROBERT F PECKHAM FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, SAN JOSE, 2 May — Today Google Inc. made permanent their ban…

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ, 27 April — Launched 10 April, and sued yesterday by 18 Olympic athletes claiming…

INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 4 April — Meet Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock, Vaneeesa Blaylock,…

INSIDE MARK ZUCKERBERG’S GLOBAL BRAIN, 1 April — Meet Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock, Vanessa Blaylock,…

  MENLO PARK, CA, 28 May — It’s heartbreaking to realize that Facebook can be so inclusive…

As the rather dramatic image above shows, my SL Network is so big (number of peeps and density of interconnections) that the SL “bolus” has become “me” and pushed all other connections out much like a star gone nova creating an annular nebula!

Aww, thanks Facebook “friends!” 🙂

If you need still more irony in your breakfast cereal, consider that the fictional film “Avatar” was #1 at the box office again this week… even as real Avatars are being executed on Facebook!

I’m going thru some serious withdrawal pains with Touchgraph being down. So I’ve been shopping for alternate FB Friend Visualizations.

You can clearly see the “cancerous” sovereign nation of Second Life continue to, like nanobots with a defective self-replication-stop switch, take over my network.

In this frame you’ll notice a giant blob of friend-protoplasm threatening to take over this Friend Network Visualization! Yes, it’s that tightly interconnected army of Second Lifers!

Space Mountain is a “ride,” and that ride is more about Space Mountain than it is about you. Facebook is also a “ride,” and Facebook is more about Facebook than it is about you.

This just happens to be the exact same number of “real/meaningless” “friends” that, uh, “someone” I know took almost 3 years on Facebook to acquire.

The reason my FB account is under the name “Vanessa Blaylock” and not my “real” name Vaneeesa Blaylock, is that when I signed up, Facebook said that the name “Vaneeesa” was unacceptable because “too many repeating letters” – not allowed!

Joined Facebook yesterday. Here’s a “Touchgraph” of my “Social Network”