Lisan Jutras
Lisan Jutras
Bio:

Lisan Jutras is still on Friendster.

Follow me on Twitter: @lisanjutras

Latest Columns:

You too can buy online popularity - but what’s it really worth?

With all the Internet metrics, it’s like my personality is a stock whose worth I'm constantly monitoring

Tweets from the banks of hell

In Haiti, the smallest details make real the biggest stories

Formspring: the ‘crack cocaine of oversharing’

A site for compulsive disclosers, Formspring.me puts you at the centre of a press conference where a scrum of anonymous participants ply you with questions

The key to holiday cheer: tweeting during turkey

Who among you can honestly say that some time between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day you have not had an urge to vanish through the escape hatch that the Internet provides?

Facebook mobilizes masses - but what for?

Never have so many people been gathered together to do so little

Go on, let it all hang out online

When it comes to sharing on social networks, I've realized that the only thing worse than revealing one's soiled laundry is pretending that it doesn't exist

Facebook's candle in the night

When it comes to connecting with friends, it's easier online but I'm never quite sure how illusory it is

Is MySpace an online ghetto?

According to a Harvard researcher, virtual litter and digital graffiti make the social network the South Bronx of the web. But with freedom to move in a click, unlike a real ghetto, staying there is choice.

Tweet timesuck: It’s the links that will kill you

For a medium that champions brevity, Twitter can be anything but a breezy read