tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post7528983023918818621..comments2024-03-14T13:06:38.883+00:00Comments on cultural snow: About social media 1.0Tim Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-64022776677986417602019-08-24T14:38:26.800+01:002019-08-24T14:38:26.800+01:00Help yourself to tea and biscuits at the back, LC....Help yourself to tea and biscuits at the back, LC. The others will roll in before long.<br /><br />Yes, Richard that whole period is littered with start-ups that didn't quite start up. I wonder if there's potential for an alternative history positing a world where, say, Friends Reunited became the dominant soc med force.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-61124118993520962122019-08-24T09:55:15.365+01:002019-08-24T09:55:15.365+01:00I got waylaid there with the school reference trig...I got waylaid there with the school reference triggering early social media memories.<br /><br />I had a shock on a Facebook page the other day when someone with the same name and nickname as one of the most brutal and sadistic teachers I've ever encountered turned up. He was still an inspiration in a way, with his brutality and reputation responsible for some inventive mark-leaving humour. He was the anti-Christ of inspiration. I guess it works both ways. Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313387849115278988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-3547325895973485672019-08-24T09:48:12.208+01:002019-08-24T09:48:12.208+01:00I didn't get a computer until 2000 so missed o...I didn't get a computer until 2000 so missed out on IRC and stuff but I used to exercise the writing muscle by writing on the early peer review sites like Dooyoo and Ciao from 2001. There was a healthy community in the comments section and I still have friends from that era. Proper ones. Met them. Even ended up moving to Crewe in 2002 because of one, who you'll remember as Sharon. One of them, Les, even ended up on the back cover of Private Eye advertising the Brennan music system. In 2004,Sharon, who had run bulletin boards in Norway in the late 80s and 90s, started up this online social meeting place specifically for women, based around the school gate concept and trading on the experiences we'd had through the peer review sites. It was called Friendsyourway. It had profiles, chat areas etc but it was really geared around geographical areas. It got some low-level national coverage and started to take off until the developer fucked it up and we couldn't access the back end and it died. Without knowing it, she had more or less invented Facebook. Sadly the media was more interested in her fascinating back story than the concept and the take up from print and radio media coverage was woeful. Rather glad it didn't take off, to be fair. Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313387849115278988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18775356.post-38030448117666442522019-08-24T09:14:53.904+01:002019-08-24T09:14:53.904+01:00Weirdo and wastrel checking in. Weirdo and wastrel checking in. LChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796019564156060962noreply@blogger.com