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Do You Know Anyone Quitting Facebook Today?

In addition to Memorial Day, today also marks Quit Facebook Day. Coincidentally, today's GraphJam features a poke on Facebook.   According to the website, Over 32,000 people have committed to quitting Facebook today. Sure, that's barely a scratch in Facebook's 400+ million users, but it's still a decent size to openly pack up and leave at once. Do you know anyone quitting Facebook today? ...

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What Your Email Address Says About You

Remember when Gmail was invite-only? I remember getting overly excited for J when he became the first person I knew in real life to get a Gmail invite (only a couple of days after the service launched!), and feeling a strange sense of accomplishment when he was finally able to invite others and gladly presented his then-girlfriend (ME!) with the first. In the six years since Gmail first launched, it has become THE email provider of choice among my friends. I have long since deactivated my Hotmail, MSN, and Yahoo accounts, and when I first bought this domain two years ago I began using Google Apps (which uses a more secure and stable version of Gmail) to manage my @geekinheels.com email...

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Grammar vs Sarcasm

In my post about the 2010 World Cup Murals, reader Nina left a comment to correct my grammar: It's "I COULDN'T care less about soccer." "I can care less" implies that you do in fact care about soccer and it would be possible for you reduce the amount you care. Make sense? :) This was particularly interesting, because I really did think that "I could care less" is a form of sarcasm; hence, my grammar was correct (in my eyes). Perhaps this mistake owes itself to my not being a native English speaker. But at the same time, this excuse holds no merit when you take into account the fact that I am currently much more comfortable with English than Korean. However, I still have...

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