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Column debut: My life on the e-list
Who knew a serious car accident could literally throw you off-course and figuratively put you back on it.
It was about two years ago. I remember thinking, "I'm too young to die." My car was smoking and totalled. Still, as strangers called 911 for me, I wondered if this was an "important" enough reason to call my family. Once the trauma waned, things became clear: This was more than an important enough reason to live my life – big.
That day, when the lady in the SUV ran the red and barrelled into my compact, she threw me about 50 metres, where I landed in the intersection of Offline and Online. While recovering, an innocent Google search somehow led me to accidentally create a website. (Some accidents I just don't mind.)
Finally, I stopped putting it off and started writing again. The rest is Web history ...
It was about two years ago. I remember thinking, "I'm too young to die." My car was smoking and totalled. Still, as strangers called 911 for me, I wondered if this was an "important" enough reason to call my family. Once the trauma waned, things became clear: This was more than an important enough reason to live my life – big.
That day, when the lady in the SUV ran the red and barrelled into my compact, she threw me about 50 metres, where I landed in the intersection of Offline and Online. While recovering, an innocent Google search somehow led me to accidentally create a website. (Some accidents I just don't mind.)
Finally, I stopped putting it off and started writing again. The rest is Web history ...
| My life on the e-list |
Unfriended: A painful click to take
Whether you're unfriended by a childhood buddy, or somebody whom you've never even met, it can be very difficult to be faced with an endship.
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Pre-date online stalking
Nothing like the excitement of those pre-first date jitters: Choosing your attire, primping your hair and stalking your date online?
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Social petworking
Why our mouse is in constant chase of the cat - and dog
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Quitting social media
Are you deleting yourself? Or are you deceiving yourself?
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Anonymous compliments
Say it forward. A symptom of #AKindnessVirus
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Hindsight is 2012
How social media changed your life in 2012.
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It's beginning to look a shop like Christmas
Go online, not insane this holiday season
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National UnFriend Day
It is time to put the end in friend.
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#FirstWorldProblems: #ANewWorldProblem
Have #firstworldproblems e-sensitized us to real world problems?
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Shut your Facebook
How Facebook can ruin friendships - and waistlines
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A little cell-control
This column may just scare the shitsurei out of you. You've been warned.
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What the puck to do
How non-hockey lovers and hockey grievers can come together during the NHL lockout
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Pop goes the Internet hoax
How learning to lie will find you the truth.
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Lazy-faire students
Is technology making kids lazier?
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The Socialympics
Is social media the biggest Olympic sport?
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Friendtrip
Putting Facebook friends on the map
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YouFame
How you can be famous on the Internet by next week
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A kindness virus
How social media is increasing social good
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The masses' media
With social media, the mass media is becoming the masses' media.
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Live it app
Why put on your thinking cap, when you can simply turn on your thinking app?
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Paging Dr. Google
An Apple or PC a day may keep the doctor away.
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The secret li(k)e of teenage girls
How young girls are turning social networking into pathology networking.
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A relationshopping spree
A few years ago when I met my husband online, Internet dating wasn't widely accepted. Now, not only is it accepted, but it's also almost expected.
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E-liminating bullying
How is it that kids get bullied for years? Friends don’t see? Teachers never notice? Parents never know? Bully crap. (Featuring an interview with W. Brett Wilson.)
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Oh the Pin'sanity
The real stereotype behind Pinterest
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My life on the e-list
My debut #eSaidSheSaid article
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