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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 »

Viral Videos

Don’t people, (ok I mean “we”) love viral videos. Cute furry animals running after a ball or maybe trying to catch his tail or even  those sitting on ATVs like polaris rzr accessories plus laughing babies never fail to warm our hearts and tickle our fancy.

But, there is another kind of viral videos. These are the ones that show how certain people, caught unaware or otherwise in uncompromising situations that may want them to hide under a rock for ten years. Like the wife scorned who chanced upon her husband’s mistress or the star dancer who tripped and fell on stage.

We probably cringed, laughed, scratched our heads and even tsk-tsked our thoughts out loud which means “I wouldn’t want to be in her/his place at that very moment”.

I just hope people would not make some videos viral just for fun especially if one’s reputation is at stake. I hope I’m not wishing upon an invisible star with this one.

Click here for the Mashable’s 10 Memorable Viral Videos of 2010.

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 🙂


Secret Blog

I’ve recently started a new blog but that is still a “secret” blog for now because I plan to put some posts first before I make it public.Yes, I’m announcing I have a secret blog, toinks!

I’ve been debating with myself whether it is going to be a beauty products related blog for which I still have a lot to learn more. I’m not that big on buying beauty products for my needs are simple (read: I’m not high maintenance when it comes to this aspect) enough.

The blog topic I chose was therefore not that topic above. I know my topic of choice is one that many has for their blogs and I may stand a chance at writing posts that are at par with those I consider great among the lot but hey, we can’t know until we try, right?

I hope I don’t eat my words when I’ll say I would try to better this skill  😉