Friday, June 1, 2012

Social Media in Trouble

We've wondered when people would catch on that social media ends up revealing TMI, too much personal information. Looks like that question has finally surfaced in the media, see this Yahoo News article for details.

The whole idea of running a diary and sharing it with more or less everybody never made sense to us. The slow motion collapse of Facebook as an IPO is a perfect way of dramatizing this phenomenon.

Instead, what we do with COTTonLINE is share with  you our thoughts about "what matters in this world." It's mostly our views of politics, world affairs, demography, science and other stuff we enjoy like travel, films, etc.

Our blog is what we'd hope our input to a conversation would contain face to face, but is somewhat more content-laden because it is one-sided. Because a blog is written, not spoken, we dress it up with links to articles you might want to read about those issues; articles we've read that triggered our conversational content. We hope you enjoy it.