Remember the time when I was in love with the Droid? I love the mascot but not the mobile product.
Remember this?
iLoveDroidX
Well, here’s the current state of affairs:
Delicious apple
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Sometimes we all just need some time outs to catch our breath.
Over capacity in life
Hmmm-ing on Google+
I’m currently alone on Google+…not exactly. I have 1 person in my circle. How are the vain supposed to be vain on this thing?
Facebook unleashed its email and text feature today. I logged on and found this:
The first step is to activate your Facebook email account. They suggest your website name: /baldevia to be your email address: baldevia@facebook.com. Then you activate your text messaging feature. And then you can start sending messages.
I opted to not activate SMS texting capabilities. I’m more of an online person rather than a SMS text person.
This makes logical sense. Streamlining all your online communications onto a widely used platform is efficient and useful. The facebook email can send emails to other email systems such as Gmail. I was able to send an email from my Facebook account to Gmail and vice versa. There was no delay in delivery and you can send an attachment from your Facebook email account if you need to upload an attachment from the computer.
I’m kind of disappointed to not see the traditional feature of adding a link, video or image in private message (purely aesthetics) however, the ability to send an attachment is useful as well. Is this setup supposed to encourage users to publicly share links, photos and videos and not use the new email feature for this purpose? Or will Facebook reintroduce those features after they’ve completely integrated the new email, text and chat features?
Some of the new features:
1) You can send a text message to those participating under the text program;
2) You can send an attachment from your computer;
3) You can take and attach a video and/or a picture; and
4) You can opt to complete and send a message by pressing “Enter” and will not need to click “Reply”.
Here’s my parody & response to both the Surprised Kitty and I Love You Dog YouTube videos.
- Fyn Ansr the constant financial marketer who wants to sell you some sort of financial service
- Emell Hem the multi-level marketer who constantly updates the benefits of their product
- Wo Esmee who constantly expresses that her/his life is horrible or is frustrated/negative
- Kaff Ene whose updates are so upbeat and energetic you can feel a jolt after reading their update
- Benjamin Peacock who likes to brag about her/his income and expenditures
- Chron Iklaffer who constantly LOL’s or ROFL’s on his status updates and tweets
- Peek Aboo who constantly checks Facebook and other profiles but refuses to leave a message
- Sister Mary who constantly types her/his prayers on the status updates and tweets
- Arty Fishall who constantly talks about themselves and how wonderful they are as human beings
A new status update appears from a Facebook profile and you can imagine the rapid typing of Facebookers to make the first comment. First’rs and Second’rs are not productive to the conversation. I am still trying to fathom why anyone would want to declare first, second or third. Their profile and comment is seen within a business/public profile’s universe. I don’t know about you…but I want to contribute more than “first!” or a “second!”
I will tell the world I love you, and I will ensure the universe knows my day is awful. The problem with Too Much Information (TMI) is that it becomes IMT: Inane Messages Today. Sometimes I really don’t want to read about your day or what you’ve eaten or that you’ve watched a particular video 5 times. When are we going to create some sort of threshold for online social etiquette?
So what do you do when your fans on Facebook engage in a vicious-name-calling fest? Remove one vowel from an intentionally misspelled word and that would have crossed the vulgar line! I was tempted to delete their comments since I was the administrator of the page but I didn’t. Did my inaction offend anyone? I’m sure someone’s comments offended people but I still felt a tinge of restraint in “controlling” the conversation. I did say my piece encouraging online peace, but I’m trying to explore my boundaries in censoring a page.
The Asia-Pacific region has experienced some very devastating natural disasters this week. From Ondoy in the Philippines, to the earthquakes and tsunamis in the Samoan Islands chain, and the earthquake in Indonesia- the Pacific Rim is continuing to brace itself for more typhoons. I found out about these natural disasters through Facebook status updates and the news networks. Through my friends’ status feeds I viewed pictures (taken by his and her phones & cameras) of the devastated areas post-natural disaster occurrence. It’s amazing what online social networks can do; the doors it can open.
With all the hoopla going on about businesses using social media, I think this week’s events shed a light on its capability to become a powerful news and organizing tool. It also highlights some mainstream news media’s weaknesses in covering the immediate effects & scenario of the natural disaster.