Rio Gringa

When I saw that Yahoo is buying Tumblr

…here’s to hoping they don’t actually touch the website.

Discovering TweetDeck is getting killed off, only to be replaced with a horribly clunky semi-alternative

When someone challenges me about something Latin America-related, and I back myself up with actual facts

When someone tries to cram too much information in a tweet and abbreviates almost all of the words

When I’m scrolling through my Facebook and I come across a photo of some horribly disfigured child that a Brazilian friend has shared (with the message, of course, Repassem!!)

Photo by Heilimo Brothers

How I felt when I discovered Instapaper

When I have to refresh Flickr five times every time I get to a new search page because “it’s having the hiccups”

When a high-profile person with over half a million followers tweets a report I spent nearly a whole day promoting on social media

Discovering Facebook had started charging to send “direct” messages to people outside one’s network

When I’ve been waiting days to hear back from someone via email and I see he/she’s been tweeting daily