Exhausted from keeping up with your Social Media?

You’re not alone.

One of its biggest differentiators, which initially attracted users to the service–Google+ Circles–may also be one of the network’s biggest turnoffs.

via Circles Fatigue: The Dark Side Of Google+ | Fast Company.

His Glass is Half Full

Barack Obama the Pessimist
His lack of faith in American exceptionalism has dashed any hope of a ‘transformational’ presidency…
Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal
Americans’ confident belief in the uniqueness, yes the exceptionalism, of their country, rested on an essential faith in liberty, and individualism and anti-statism at home, and in the power of our example, and muscle now and then, in foreign lands. Mr. Obama is ill-at-ease with that worldview. Our country has had pessimism on offer and has invariably rejected it. At crucial points in its history, it has remained unshaken in the belief that tomorrow can be better.
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