Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman’s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

Going to a site with more users seems obviously better to me, but at the same time, having a bland, middle of the road profile with bland, middle of the road pictures seems like a bad strategy to me.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.