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Santa Monica Blvd, east of Vermont, circa 1954. The Cahuenga Branch Library can be seen right of center (From USC Digital Archives) I’ve never thought of myself as a historian. I’ve always been interested in history, particularly local history, and I’ve always been an active writer…but never a historian. But oftentimes, you grow […] April 27th, 2011 | Tags: East Hollywood, EHNC, Hijo De E-Ho, History, Internet, Writing | Category: Community, East Hollywood, History, Internet | Leave a comment No Facebook For A Week: Day 7: Sunday, July 4, 2010 Text Contacts with FB Friends: 0 Email Contacts with FB Friends: 1 Telephone Contacts with FB Friends: 0 In-Person Contacts with FB Friends: 5 Today, as the nation celebrates the first day of its independence from Great Britain 234 years ago, I celebrate the […] July 4th, 2010 | Tags: Facebook, Holidays, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Internet, Social | Leave a comment No Facebook For A Week: Day 5: Friday, July 2, 2010 Text Contacts with FB Friends: 2 Email Contacts with FB Friends: 3 Telephone Contacts with FB Friends: 2 In-Person Contacts with FB Friends: 3 Friday was a day where I got some things done – mainly a long-overdue oil change for my ’05 Saturn […] July 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Bicycles, Downtown L.A., Duarte, Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Bicycling, Internet, Social | Leave a comment No Facebook For A Week: Day 4: Thursday, July 1, 2010 Text Contacts with FB Friends: 0 Email Contacts with FB Friends: 2 Telephone Contacts with FB Friends: 3 In-Person Contacts with FB Friends: 1 So this Facebook isolation has been going on for four days already, and I realized one major thing: Like buying […] July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Internet, Social | Leave a comment No Facebook For A Week: Day 3: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Text Contacts with FB Friends: 2 Email Contacts with FB Friends: 4 Telephone Contacts with FB Friends: 1 In-Person Contacts with FB Friends: 0 Beginning to feel more of the effects of social isolation…Went out today for my chiropractor visit in Atwater Village, took […] July 1st, 2010 | Tags: Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Internet, Music, Social | Leave a comment No Facebook For A Week: Day 2: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Text Contacts with FB Friends: 3 Email Contacts with FB Friends: 3 Telephone Contacts with FB Friends: 2 In-Person Contacts with FB Friends: 3 The experiment continues…Still feel some isolation, but it’s not such a big deal. Received a text from one of my […] June 30th, 2010 | Tags: East Hollywood, EHNC, Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Internet, Social | Leave a comment Before I start on the first-day report of the No-Facebook-For-A-Week-Experiment, let me publish my hypothesis, since one of my FB friends texted me and asked me what the hypothesis was. Actually, I didn’t really have one, this was more of a field study, but if I were to give a “throwing darts in the […] June 29th, 2010 | Tags: Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | Category: Internet, Social | Leave a comment I’ve decided to do a little experiment. I will not log into, or use Facebook for an entire week. LOLWUT?!? Most of you might say. But first of all, I need to clarify a couple things. First of all, this has absolutely nothing to do with Facebook’s controversial privacy policy, nor am I doing it […] June 28th, 2010 | Tags: Facebook, Friends, Internet, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter | Category: Internet, Social | 2 comments |
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