Tag: social networking

Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

December 21, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Why ‘Facebook-killer’ #Ello is not the Next Big Thing

September 30, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

A new “anti-Facebook” social networking site has been making waves lately with some tech pundits going as far as asserting that it is going to be the “Facebook killer”. Billed, “the second coming of Facebook”, Ello.co pitches among its supposed key differentiating features its being ad-free and a network that allows its users to name…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

The future of media: will it create a stronger society? Think again

May 6, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Is the trend in social media really moving towards building stronger networks? Or is it really just weakening them? If we look back at the last several years from the dawn of the “social networking” revolution in the early- to mid-2000s, we will find an interesting trend: social networking models have gone from being defined…

Development, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

It’s the end of Friendster as we know it

April 28, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

Had Friendster been the only social networking site today, and it would be end of the world as its tens of millions of users know it. But then the reality as Nikolai Galicia, Friendster and Money Online (Friendster’s Malaysian owner) country manager for the Philippines sees it is that “It’s a Facebook world”. Indeed, Facebook…

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