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I’ve been a member of Facebook since, I don’t know, maybe 2009? I have always been cautious about Facebook. It was never my favorite social media tool. But, as they say, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

I’m fairly adept at Facebook but I was slow to get on board and very selective

Harvey, social media and getting real

It’s Day 3: I’m sitting in my island of a home waiting out #Harvey.

I’m one of the very lucky ones. I still have power, potable water and a working Netflix account.

But I’m movied out and reduced to organizing my closet.

On Day 1, I packed my evacuation bags: insurance, check; passport, check; undies,

Luxury Daily reports that according to the latest Forrester Research, just under 10 percent of U.S. consumers trust marketers’ text messages, while 12 percent trust information on mobile applications.

Well, obviously, they haven’t met me.

I love my little Target, Walgreens, and RedBox texts. I get coupons, free movies and reminders. And AT&T sends me usage

Last week while having lunch with a librarian friend, we wondered if associates schooled in electronic research were losing the serendipity of stumbling across new resources while browsing bookshelves.

But then I mentioned that I have seen serendipitous posts on social networks, like when two of my friends, unbeknownst to one another, post similar items

I, Sophia Lisa Salazar, come by my geekness honestly. Born of a math wizard who programmed way before computer classes existed, my sisters are, respectively, a calculus teacher and the other, a patent attorney with an MBA and two engineering degree. Against them, my humble J.D. glitters like pyrite.

So you can only imagine the ambivalent,

So I’ve been more or less random in my posting on 3 Geeks lately. Preoccupied by work–I know, I know, why should I let that get in the way?–I have taken on quite a bit these past couple of years. Between going more digital and an expanding global footprint things have been rather hectic!

But

I can admit it now: I was a pretty weird kid.

By the time I was twelve, I had already read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, along with George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. My mom thought that I would like them—she had read them while studying at Kent State University just a