Category Archives: Facebook

Mapping Facebook Friendships Worldwide

Let’s face it, Facebook is probably the most wonderful way to connect with family, loved ones and friends, and yes, even your frenemies. Are you someplace in this map? Or are you a part of the missing piece?

facebook map of friendship
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Facebook world: What’s missing from this picture?

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Mark Zuckerberg: Time Person of the Year 2010

Mark Zuckerberg has been named as TIME Person of the Year 2010.

But if it was me, I’d have Julian Assange as my personal choice who was#1 and got 382, 024 votes from readers like me (I voted for him, LOL) but for personal reasons I would rather not specify here why I chose him, since this post is about Mark Zuckerberg (who got 18,353 votes).

Not that Mark Zuckerberg aims for world domination with 550 million members in Facebook and where there is one out of every dozen people on the planet has a Facebook account and with 75 languages plus collectively lavish more than 700 billion minutes on Facebook every month. No one, can beat that because the numbers are changing fast.

And we have this guy to thank for for being able to track down childhood friends we haven’t seen for decades, cousins/aunts/uncles once or twice removed, exes, former teachers and even for some, they found half-brothers and half-sisters.

Though there may be issues that people have to put up with especially about their privacy, still Facebook is THE one where people’s online activity converge.

And yes, I’ve known people who stopped blogging once they were in Facebook.

Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg for being TIME Person of the Year 2010.

Facebook: People Tagging Others With Their Merchandise

Facebook has got to be THE one for the books in terms of having the most number of subscribers. Everybody and his aunt are on Facebook, even pets, jejemons and attention-seeking people. Especially attention seeking people.

In all its intricacies and simplicity, good points and bad, Facebook is a great repository of links, helpful or not, happy or sad. People ogle at their friends’ travels, baby photos, status updates on what they are currently doing at the right time and begin to get engrossed in a virtual world that seem to be happening in real life. Aminin!

At times, Facebook feels like people are back in high school, boasting about how many friends they have, whether or not they know these people personally or not.

Facebook has become a place to chat, keep up, brag, give one’s POV on the latest happenings around the world or just plain updating on things that are important like family, significant milestones and changes.

Judging by how people seem to congregate to this Social Media, it is but right to assess how much one can get involved and how one should let other people get involved in their accounts.

For me, the key ingredient in interacting with people in Facebook would be PRIVACY. This is one of the reasons why I was not easily accessible in Facebook early on when I signed up because I’ve set my profile to not get friend invites from people. I instead was the one requesting people to be friends with me. Looking back, this was kinda pathetic but hey, at least I get to choose who I get to see in my time line. Read more »

How to Get the new Facebook Profile

I’ve logged in my Facebook account and saw that some friends have new Facebook profiles.

Of course I had to look 😀 When I did I was surprised, not because there were photos of them in jacuzzi tubs but because I felt there is just too much information for everyone, I mean for FB contacts to see.

On the new profile page header, one can read about a contact’s personal information:

  • married to/in relationship with ______
  • current work information
  • education
  • place where the person lives
  • birthday

On the sidebar, the following can be seen:

  • profile photo of family members
  • friends categorized according to lists made (ie HS Friends, Co-workers, neighbors, cousins). When friends link is click, there appears the friends’ profiles in a gallery. Hmmm…

Interested on how to get the new Facebook profile page? Here’s how:

  1. go to http://www.facebook.com/about/profile/
  2. click on the green button on the upper right side that has the words: “Get the New Profile
  3. And you get the new Facebook  profile page

I may have to beg off doing that for now.

Facebook Profile Photos as Cartoon Characters

“Change your Facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood and invite your friends to do the same. Until Monday (Dec.6) there should be no human faces on Facebook, but an invasion of memories. This is to show that you are strongly against violence on children.”

Holly Hobbie

Holly Hobbie for me. It was a toss between her and Tiny Poem of Sanrio but I chose Holly Hobbie. I’m not sure why since I had more Tiny Poem goodies back in the day.

There were those who think this is silly-childish to do. Well I don’t. Come on, lighten up people, while we can’t exactly change the violence being done to children, at least we raise awareness that this violence is real and is happening all over the world.

So, go, change your Facebook profile photo as cartoon characters and have some fun 🙂