My Life With IT

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Frankly speaking, a new toy is always fun to play with until you reach the stage of boredom. I am bored of Facebook. I still have incoming application requests and have resorted to blocking the applications as I find the them a hassle to keep myself active in more than 30 applications.

I read with amusement about the Facebook Anthem and found it rather endearing. Apparently, We didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel is popularly used to change the lyrics. I have more than 30 applications being loaded in my profile and it sure is loading very slowly.

It took me much sheer power to remove applications that I have no fancy for such as Ninjas vs Pirates, and other games that took too much time to upkeep the status. I’m hoping to remove Superpoke, Fun Wall, Make a Baby and other applications in future.

Facebook, it was good while it lasted.

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There are certain policies to be known. It is known that there are certain companies that dislike their workers blogging about work even without giving away any clues. I can also see why a certain company dislike bloggers. That company has official bloggers in its portal. In addition, they look as if they are able to voice their own opinions.

However, after going through it for some time, I realise that the topics are outdated. As any good blogger know, data must be fresh online. You must be the first publish any data so that you will be the pioneer of the data and all the trackbacks or ping backs will belong to you most of the time.

Google is known for indexing sites that have been around for a long time. Work isn’t meant for the online eyes. Companies are not ready for that. I doubt they ever will as the cache is known for its long memory. I have blogged about work but never where I have worked in.

I don’t give out names of the companies I have worked for and neither do I even dare to reveal to any manager that I am blogging. It’s dangerous. However, with my Facebook account linking to the blogs, I’m starting to wonder if I should have even linked them in my Facebook.

The 1st rule of blogging for personal sites is never to blog about the company’s name. You never know when your boss is going to google for you. 2nd rule, no real names on blogs. I am wondering if some blog awards like omy is giving out has a purpose besides giving out awards. They require real names and NRIC for identification purpose.

Nowadays, you get invitations to events the electronic way. Via email, e-cards or Facebook. I have used Evite and Ecircles (now defunct). The most commonly used way I have used is email. I just select the names and hit send. Not that it isn’t good. Just that it isn’t that well collaborated in a way whereby I can easily list down who are the attendants.

Facebook is quite popular and I have just received an invitation to attend a dinner with my ex-colleagues. It’s quite easy to use too. Just a reply if you will be attending, maybe or just a no. Easy peasy. With Evite, you select the event type, picture if you like, the list of people you have imported, some polling on the attendance and that’s it. It really depends on your preferred method of invitation.

I have even received an e-card for attending a ROM. So, it’s nothing new, it’s just a way to inform my friends that I am inviting them to some event. Saves paper and environment. Wait, they still have to switch on the electricity. Darn it.

Chatting online has never been so hot until now. Even robots are in the game. You can chat at CyberLover.ru and never know that the erotic or flirtatious messages could be coming from a robot. A very clever robot indeed.

It’s so wonderful to the point where you would be giving out your contact number to it. You won’t know who would be sitting in between the transactions and culling your very personal information that should be kept in private and given out only when asked.

Privacy is no longer the “in” thing. Just look at the Facebook issue with Beacon. That reminds why I’m not into online matchmaking sites. You can’t be sure if your information will be kept confidential or not. Remember, they are watching you.

[via Mashable]