The Most Social Guy Who Ever Wanted to Ditch Society
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For someone who revels in solitude in âInto the Wild,â Chris McCandless is remarkably good at making friends.
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Often dismissed as a quirky pipe dream, it took a thrill-seeking mogul to energize one of mankind's oldest desires. By James Lee from Wired magazine.
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The highly regarded director has always been considered eccentric. Now he's getting mad
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Bill Thompson loooks at how the social web is transforming friendships and the way we view the world.
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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For some, it would be unthinkable &#151; certain social suicide. But Gabe Henderson is finding freedom in a recent decision: He canceled his MySpace account.
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Here are some tips on how to gracefully and painlessly remove yourself from sticky social situations.
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Jerry Seinfeld says he felt out of place among the popular kids at his Long Island high school. "I kind of took myself out of the kind of main cliques of the school, because I didn't feel comfortable," Seinfeld tells Parade.com.
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By Saul Hansell  Mark Zuckerberg is a member of the Google generation, a generation too young to remember all the fortunes lost when the last dot-com boom ended.
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He has fallen out of love with politics. But friends, moneymen and an army of green activists are begging him to run
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One of the biggest role models from the "I don't care" era has done a complete 180-degree turn.
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Greg Gutfeld, former editor of Men's Health and Stuff, is finding a home for his bravado at the bawdy and beery Maxim magazine in Britain.
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In real life, you probably don't want to be friends with a guy   who once stole a car from a one-legged girl and faked his death in order   to break up with someone. But virtual social networking is another   story.
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LONDON -- He shows up for work in famously drab ties with his nails bitten to the quick. He hates networking, and didn't marry until he was 49. He's the glowering figure often seen harrumphing on the bench behind his preternaturally poised boss, Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the House of Commons.
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The onetime social-networking leader, having lost ground in the U.S. to Facebook and MySpace, sets its sights on China.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community.
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Opinion Man on the edge of IM insanity