Archive for the 'Social Networks' Category

Twittering by text message

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I finally figured out how to Twitter with my cell phone.  Oh boy, this is going to be cool.  Now all I have to do is get my BFF and BF to follow my twitter on their phones, and I’m all set.  They’ll both know if I missed my bus, if I need a ride, etc.  ;-)

Facebook

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I didn’t get it.  When I first created an account on Facebook it was so totally boring.  There was nothing going on, and it was not easy for me to figure out how to find stuff.

Now, a group of my peers has discovered Facebook, and suddenly it’s the neatest place to be.  I feel like I’m in school again, doodling on my papers and passing notes to friends.

I’m sure this initial fascination wears off, as evidenced by our less-frequent logins from a few months ago.  And, of course, now that I’ve been actually using it I’ve got too many cutesy little applications plugged into my profile.  I’m sure they’re all gleefully sucking cookies off my computer too.  But how to choose which ones to let go of?

I find that when a friend sends you an application, it’s tough to say no.  One of my problems is that I may have to use my own site to demo stuff for work, so I don’t want to put anything too offensive up there, and yet I still want to have fun at the same time.  For example, there are ‘fight’ pokes you can send to your friends (all in fun) but I would hate to have any of those taken out of context.

One of these applications that has me hopelessly hooked is called ‘fluff pets’.  Yep, now not only do I go home to clean the litterbox of my own 3 dimensional cat, I have to be sure to feed, pet, and walk my virtual pet daily in order to avoid tremendous guilt as his mood changes from happy to miserable with increases in my neglectfulness.  I need a virtual pet-sitter!