I spend too much time distracted by facebook, blogs, cartoons, celeb gossip, nerf gun discussion boards, the internet. As such, I am making a change. It’s over facebook. It’s over between us. O facebook, I have been with you for more than five years and you’ve never let me down. So you need to know that you did nothing wrong. It’s not you… it’s me. You’re too much for me. You’ve got to much to offer the world and I can’t appreciate all you have to give. No – no – no… don’t say anything. I am going to take some time for myself and then we will reevaluate the whole situation. I don’t expect you to wait for me and I know you will change – you always were a free-spirited hellion. Goodbye.
Hi Joshua,
You have deactivated your Facebook account. You can reactivate your account at any time by logging into Facebook using your old login email and password. You will be able to use the site like you used to.
Thanks,
The Facebook Team
So what now? I COMMAND+T; “f” still yields “www.facebook.com”. I’ve ended a long relationship with the social networking pest but I know i’ll go back. One day at a time, am I right?
My iPhone has really become an important aspect of my day-to-day routine. I posted updates to Twitter, update my status on Facebook, check my email, update my Calendar events, mark off my Task-list and use my voice to find a restaurant near me so I can make reservations for the night. It’s great.
I start my days off usually with a quick tweet or two from my iPhone twitter client Twittelator (free version available).
Once I’ve done that I scoot on to work, logging my arrival time into Momento, which is my daily journal app. It works great and I use it to log various conversations I’ve had throughout the day, and personal opinions on various items that pass through my desk… Opinions that can’t be voiced in a public forum due to job security. Another nice thing with Momento is that it connects to my facebook and twitter profiles, and pulls in my status and tweets from there, building a timeline I can follow at a later point in time. Posts that I make within Momento I can tag with various tags, include people and locations within it. Then at a later time, I can search through sort able tags to help find what I’m looking for. It works great
As I progress through the day I’ll obtain various new tasks I need to accomplish or complete, and I’ll log those into Pocket Information (Free version available). Pocket Informant connects with my Toodeldo account and synchronizes with it. Allowing me to take my tasks home and access them via my laptop while I work from home. Pocket Informant also synchronizes pretty well with my Google Calendar allowing me to create and manage my calendar events on the go. Since Google is my central repository anyway for all my email, documents, RSS fees and photo management, it’s nice that my apps all sync with Google and allow me to access my data everywhere I go.
As I get free time throughout the day I’ll try to spend some time reading my RSS feeds. The Google Reader works pretty well via a web browser on the iPhone, but I prefer to use MobileRSS (Free version available). It syncs with Google Reader and lets me send content to my Read It Later account (iPhone app available in Pro & Free), along with Instapaper, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook and Email. It supports Google Article sharing and comments as well, which makes it nice.
As the day comes to a close I post a few more updates to twitter and facebook (via the facebook app), make what ever adjustments I need to do with my events and tasks, and off to bed I go to start a new day tomorrow using the same apps again.
I love how the iPhone has allowed me to be more productive with less effort. I even import and manage my iPhone photo’s with Google’s Picasa and it’s a piece of cake.
Facebook’s Security Check now has a feature called “RUsure” which helps eliminate needless posts on Facebook fan pages.
The fan page admin can’t turn the feature on/off… it turns on automatically after 6 posts within a 24 hour time period and will only turn off after one of those posts receives 5 “likes” or 3 comments.
Gmail greeted me this morning with a new Buzz. The Gmail blog told the entire story of Google launching a yet another SOCIAL Feature called the Buzz. Google Buzz is among the very crucial moves which Google has been playing to sustain its dominance in the web especially the social web.
Google Buzz
The Buzz is a lifestreaming service more like the FriendFeed where all your activities on the various social sites get aggregated at one place facilitating a much broader picture of your digital echo. I won’t help you guys with the features, coz the video is easier to follow. Interesting again with the cartoon showing up in a google’s product launch similar to Google Chrome in 2008. What would make the Google Buzz even more competitive would be an integration of the Google Wave along with updates from Google groups and more socail sites into it. Facebook is not yet a Lifestreaming service, but they did acquire FriendFeed. (I am not still sure what their plans with FriendFeed are)
Facebook recently had its 6th anniversary and hit the 400 million user mark, But Google buzz will already start off with over a 150 million(approximately) user base owing to the fact that its built right into Gmail. What Google Buzz lacks is the all the social games that people play on Facebook. I guess once an API for the Google Buzz is out, it will go head on against Facebook. As yet it too early to say who will kill Facebook, but Google Buzz definitely has potential.
Google woke up to the Facebook and the Twitter challenge. Finally.
Google Buzz is the latest product from the Google family and its best attempt to build a social network after the early attempts like Orkut and Open Social saw marginal success.
To me Google Buzz looks like FriendFeed 2.0 (Facebook acquired FriendFeed last year) with its stream of updates, pictures, links from one’s friends. The biggest advantage that Google has in launching Buzz is that this is built into the Gmail application which already has over 175 million users. And Buzz is available on the iPhone and the Android as well.
Google is giving a lot of granular controls but the default social graph is based on the Gmail settings (mail recipients and senders of mail). Whether they indeed are actually the desired social graph for someone is something that I am not sure. For me, it surely is not!
Will Google win against Twitter with the Buzz? Twitter is simple and the tweets go to all the people who follow the tweet sender. “Buzzing” is not. There is a public and private buzz and this could make it complicated.
At first glance Google Buzz has a few advantages: It combines the best from Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook Connect, Flickr and a few others. It has nice email integration as they show up in the Inbox and as a tab within Gmail. It highlights items that friends like and share. You can read about the functionality here
The key challenge is how will Google square off against Facebook when Facebook introduces email. And whether Google Buzz will integrate with Facebook connect.
i like to think i’m a cultured sort of person, like if someone asked me what i did in my spare time i’d say reading fucking satre books and creating great works of art or something. but it’s not really true, i mean, i do those things sometimes, but mostly i spend my time like my sims character.
i was playing sims 3 on my iphone, and made this character called nina or something. basically she was the town bike. she also nearly died from no food or sleep. however she was being very social. this is sorta how i spend my days. but lately, you know, im sick of being the town bike. in fact, i never really liked it that much anyway. i thought id start blogging so i can keep track of my thoughts and boys and mind and if i am, where im going wrong.
fuck fuck fuck, got an email from my lawyer. i have to call him. and my mobile is going off. its optus again. its not my mobile. its my dads. my sim card is in it. my mobile won’t charge. i can’t do anything about it. dad gets shitty about me using his mobile. dad gets shitty about everything. he has, as the family shrink/s puts it, a history of anger management issues.
fuck being broke! fuck being single! fuck writing this blog no one will read. can’t find my fucking lawyers number.
i miss shoplifting. i’m soooo nervous about my court case! nervous! nervous. google lawyers number. room too messy, dont know where i put his contact card. fml.
i don’t want to get drunk or have sex anymore. but i’m seeing russel tonight, and we WILL fuck. have a bottle of jack in my bedroom. DO NOT BRUSH MY TEETH WITH IT. i hate you kesha. i hate you.
its because ive already fucked him, and he called me up and asked me to come over to his place tonight which is empty. and he doesn’t want me to meet his mother. yeah, im definitely just a fuck. apparently he never brings girls home, and his mum would freak. well, he didn’t have any condoms in his bedroom… read: excuse to do it unprotected. or not? god, i dont even trust men anymore.
got to go to scummy box hill tafe to meet up with friend then wait for russel to call so i can go to his awesome awesome house in canterbury. canterbury!!! his house is totally awesome boyfriend material, like a house whod i like a boyfriend to have. russell definitely not boyfriend, but has a house like one, so am getting somewhere perhaps. fucking optus is still texting me.
oh – why his house is awesome – good books/mags/walls… fuck! cause it looks ‘cultured’. why do i care? look, i dont want to date a stupid boy. ive done that before. its horrible. i hate it. i hate that i hate it. i hate that i have to break up with them and tell them its me, not you. its me, not you. its actually me. you can’t help it if youre stupid and senseless (enough to fall for me, when i won’t feel the same way). but whyyyyyyy.
im going on facebook too much! and my bedroom is a mess. what is wrong with me!!!
oh my god! this random indian guy called neelu sharma has been posting facebook videos that im tagged in as his statuses. fuck, so creeped out. REMOVE FROM FRIENDS.
shit, am late for late lunch date. be back soon. x
