iCarumba, Batman!
I know it’s really ‘Aye Carumba’ and not iCarumba–I studied Spanish for 4yrs! I’m using my “i” version because I’m noticing there are so many i-things in the world: iPods, iPhones, iGlasses (a software) and even iDogs, iFish and iCats! It’s enough to make you scream “iYaiYai!” *~ok, bad pun~*
Even worse than the iCat is the fact social networking web site popularity has dramatically increased over the last year, to the point many people have multiple accounts, with mostly the same individuals on their buddy and friend lists! Even more worse is some sites begin with one vision in mind, and it mutates due to the demands of a user base they never intended to attract. Facebook is a great example:
Facebook began as a way for people to be in contact with others they rarely meet or see: family who live on the far side of the country, fellow students from the university you used to attend, etc. And you can share pictures to them, since they are currently away from your “real” life. Facebook was not intended for daily friends to interact, or for posting quick, poorly written status messages every 5 minutes. It was meant to be a representation (or “Face”) of your life, so others who cannot see your life firsthand can at least sample it. Search was pretty much limited to companies, universities, and high schools (not for current high school students, but for high school ALUMNI to find each other). All was wonderful, until: teenagers!
Teenagers turned Facebook into Friendster (which is actually designed for your often-seen-real-life friends and buddies to have a cyber-life in addition to real life). While Facebook creators were not really happy with this newly rising group of users, it did increase their total number of customers, which in turns attracts advertising and revenue (as businesses did not care “who” was online, only that it was hundreds of thousands of them).
I’ve noticed that more than 90% of the people on the average person’s Facebook friend list is a person they see fairly often, talk to on the phone often, or SMS to often (or all of the above!). I’ve even seen people communicate in stereo! (e.g. sending SMS to each other, while also updating each other’s “walls”). When asked “why?” I often hear “well, they wrote me comment, so now I must write one.” (uhhh…)
These web sites are supposedly to be all in fun, I know. But, lets say you have Facebook AND you have Friendster. Does the average person interact with different people on the two different services? NO! most of the people on a person’s list for one service is on the list of EVERY service account they have! So now people are getting messages from the same individuals on Facebook, on Friendster, on SMS, on the Phone, and lets not forget Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger (hates it!), Sypke, ICQ, IRQ, Google Talk (I can name easily more)! *~OK, Moving On…~*
I am the same. I have all these services too! And I have SMS, Blackberry Messenger, and Twitter (which is the only service most people need, as all most people do is make quick comments to each other on all the other services, which is what Twitter does better than anyone, but anyway…). I have SO MANY Web 2.0, Social Networking Accounts, that when I do remember to visit them, I must always request “email me my password” or worse, “email me my username” Because it been SO LONG I cant even remember them for the web site! EVEN MORE SCARY is some people can’t even remember which email address they used to sign up for that particular web service, because they have SO MANY email accounts too! So, some people can’t even tell that web site where to send their forgotten info!
*~ How Fucked-Up is that? That you have accounts you not visit for so long, you cant even remember the username or password or even email account anymore, yet you STILL KEEP IT! It like keeping Duncan Donuts even though they are 3 months old! ~*
I recently began to think “why do I have these accounts? And I don’t even log into all of them alway, so why do I keep them?!” I asked friends and they too said the same! Most of the adults log into one or two often, and maybe check the others from time to time, simply to clear the messages from the inboxes. Teens like to use them all, but that’s OK: they’re teen hahaha!
So, I have decided to delete all my social networking accounts, except Yahoo! messenger, Twitter and Facebook. (I’m still undecided, Maybe I will keep MySpace instead of Facebook, which is Hell-A-Boring to me with its lame applications, while MySpace has lots of cool content, like Music artist pages, enhanced video capabilities, etc., and MySpace has many more users than Facebook–contrary to what most people may believe). For Facebook status messages, I do not even update them! I only update Twitter, and have Twitter auto-feed Facebook status box hahahaha.
Now that that’s settled, what about the buddy and friend lists? How many “friends” do you have on your Yahoo!, Friendster and Facebook? How many of them are really friends u interact with, or have history (such as attending the same university class, or coworkers) via that service? How many of those “friends” on your lists do you never even hear from? How many of them do u comment to (not counting you ‘replying’ their comments) because you are thinking of them, and want to give them a cool shout-out? I’ve seen “friends” with over 600 “friends” on their list (usually the pretty girls have this many, cos guys can’t help but add them, so they feel they are cool hahaha). Is it so bad to “decline” a friend request? Is it so bad to clean the list and keep just people you “actually” know and interact with? Is it so evil to delete 300 of those 600 people, because you heard from them only once, and not ever again? Let’s find out!
I’m trashing anyone on my list that I cannot immediately remember who they are! On my old Yahoo! Messenger account (I trashed it about 3yrs ago, cos so many people and spam email) had like 150 people on it! and I had NO IDEA who they were! Today I have maybe 20 total on my Yahoo! Messenger buddy list, but I know who they are, and I hear from them at least once in a while, but I separate them into Yahoo! Messenger groups. I’ve 5 groups:
- “A-List” (for those very few who are close, real-life friends I constantly interact with)
- “Friends” (nice people who I know in real-life, or interact with for many years)
- “Friends-At-Large” (good people who I don’t get to chat to often, due to distance, real-life things, etc, but we stay in touch from time to time)
- “The Others” (stolen from the TV show “Lost”: people who I’ve met, and rare to talk to, but feel I should maintain contact to. Usually ex-coworkers, or networking-relationship)
- “The Psychos” (only 3 on this list: Neurotic people I’ve marked as permanently offline, and ignored. Miss Split-Personality with her multiple accounts, The Stalker, and The Nympho-Travel Agent are in this group)
Anyway, I will soon be freed from the chains of too much Web 2.0 (social networking web sites, for you non-geeks). Later I’m cleaning house! I’ll keep only those services that have unique specialties, then trashing the rest! 
Bahasa Indonesia Lesson For Today:
Lengkap: Complete
Contoh (example):
Ibu saya senang karena dapur saya sudah lengkap.
My mother is happy because my kitchen is already complete.
Take care! Oh crap, I forgot I used to have a Multiply Account! I have to log back on at home and trash that one too *cryyyy…. Lord All Mighty, Please Deliver me from the Evil that is “invite your friends to use this service”!
This is SO True! Especially about the buddy lists and how I get same messages from the same group of people on so many places. And I always feel I must reply or I am a bad person!
And yes, hundreds are on my list, usually guys who initially flirt, and give up when I not do it back, yet they still on my list! OMG!
I’m also guilty of sending sms, to person I just write quick comment to about same topic I sms about! LOL
I think you are smart to do the clean up. I will too!
YES! and I love your names for the Yahoo Messenger groups hahahahahaha The Psychos is so perfectly described LOLOLOLOLOL
Hey, Rodney. I’m glad you are back to posting! I feel this is a cry for freedom from the iHave-that-site-too syndrum :p
This is weird… I wrote about this on my blog a week ago, how I have many accounts, and why. But not as long as this hehehe… Oh don’t forget Goodreads and WAYN and Hi5 (yuck) and Plurk (if you have one). And ya, I have many email accounts too (of course I use my real name). Sometimes I forget which one for this and which one for that, so I have to check one by one. Kyaaa…
I did delete some people I don’t know on FB last week, cos I use it only to play games and I thought they sent me request to fight or pose or make them rich
But now I ignored if I don’t know the person. “Are you a gamer? No? Byebye…” hahaha…
So ya, sometimes I don’t know what the use of this.
Hi, Rizki! How have you been?
Your story reminds me of a former student of mine. She made a comment on a person’s Facebook status, then sent that person an SMS saying “hi, I sent you a comment.” Then she thought “I could have just told the comment in SMS only!” hahahaha
Hey Jing-a-ling,
Trust me, The Psychos group was the nicest name I could think of… :-S
MeiMei,
Those stats about the men is scary, Lor!
iDo-Have-Too-Many-Site, Rick :p
LOL Nita-chan!
I did not know you wrote about this topic too (see, I really need to start reading other people’s blogs!).
You are the gaming queen on FB, my goodness you even got me to join “fashion wars” (and I stil not like the pink pumps)!
I have some free time at lunch, so I will do my pruning at that time
RODNEYYYYY I am so happy you posted an new story!
I have heard of MySpace and Facebook. I never hear of a ICQ or a IRQ, so I had to google.
I have AIM, and YM, and MSN, and I also have more than 300 on my friend lists, and they mostly people I never talk to. It makes it hard to see who is online and who is not, because I must scroll up and down so much!
I think I will delete a lot of people the next few days that I never chat with. I not mean “put them on ignore” but mean just delete them from my list. They can still contact me, but as I never contact them, why have them on my list?
When do you return to USA? Ma
Brownie, I can’t imagine so many on my buddy list! And, you make a good point. Deleting people from the list does not block them, and they can still contact you, if one day they want to actually “talk” and not flirt or just be decoration on friend lists.
Hey what’s up man. I am one of those who cannot remember what email account I used for some accounts hahahaha, and after I finally figure it out, I login for maybe 10min, look at the hot girls’ pics, then log out (i do not even bother to fully read the lame messages people send, or even reply them).
I thought Facebook is bigger and more popular that MySpace? I have both, but I find MySpace more fun actually. Facebook has turned from what you described (a way to share with people absent from daily life) into a jack-of-all-trades site that mimics any other site that is popular.
Very humorous and very true information! At least I can say this applies to me and people I know hahahaha
Hello Jamie,
Actually, it depends on markets. As far as total numbers of unique visitors each month, they are both attracting around 115 million visitors (but in Dec 2008, Facebook blew up with over 220 million). Dec 2008 numbers makes sense, as Facebook has recently began to mimic Twitter with quick and short status messages and replies. (as I said in the post, Facebook tries to copy other site’s popular features: a jack-of all trades, as you stated). So every time a teen puts a 3-letter reply, like “lol” to someone’s message, that is counted as a visit hahahahahaha. If they go back again in 5 minutes and put LOL to the LOL, then that 2 more visits. You get my point: lots of Facebook’s “visits” is just for junk.
When looking country to country, MySpace heavily dominates Facebook in the USA, while Facebook’s legions are from mostly outside the USA. So, when advertisers choose who they give their $ too, MySpace gets lots of the USA’s advertising bucks. Facebook, having a broader international appeal, gets lots of international advertising, but I suspect the total number of international advertisers on Facebook is less than the total number of domestic advertisers on MySpace in the USA.
MySpace has heavy USA cultural roots (especially for music, movies and other entertainment industries) and has to find a way to incorporate more international cultures. Facebook is virtually culture-less (thus appeals to masses anywhere–which is smart I think).
But, when it comes to the biggest Web 2.0 (Social Networking) websites, neither MySpace nor Facebook are even in the top 15!. The top 15 sites, measured by eBizMBA, are (as of March 1, 2009)
YouTube
Wikipedia
Photobucket
Craigslist
Flickr (dang, I need to trash this account too, kyaaa)
WordPres.com
IMDB (very great movie review and actor info website!)
Digg (one of my favorites)
eHow
TypePad
Topix
LiveJournal
DeviantART (I have not logged into my DA account in about 7 yrs: OMG)
DailyMotion
Technorati
Take care and thanks for visiting my blog!
For me, I hate site like FB. Actually, even email is very different for Japanese. For us, “email” is something we send/receive mostly on our mobile phone (not like sms, but actual email, like blackberry does with complete email address). We use computers for work, reports, and we use cell phone for interaction with each other. even photo sharing, webcam chat and video file sharing: we do it all from our mobiles:)
Facebook baffle me why it popular. I think u should move here and be Japanese haha.
By the way.
Who is “Nympho-Travel Agent” ?
Howdy, Chie-chan!
Ya, the Japanese have some way cool features, but, they only work in Japan for your phone. Once you leave, it becomes just a normal mobile hehehahahaha.
The Nympho-Travel Agent. hahahaha Ok here is the story:
At work, I had to deal with the travel agent my co uses, as HR’s rep was not available. She and I could not understand each other on the phone, so she asked if I had Yahoo. We used Yahoo to settle the travel plans to Singapore, but then she started asking rude questions, and even sent topless pic of herself (how bizzaro is that mess???) Even after telling her stop she continue. I had to eventually report to my HRD all she did. She ended up losing her job there (i know cos she later told me she was let go, and at new agency, and bugged me more). I had to put her in The_Psychos list.
She still calls my office though, but i just hang up (kyaaa)
Good for you to clean your accounts, cus its only make crowded on the net while you not even use it.
Poor that psychos. Understand from your postings they are like that because they like you or even love you hahaha. Too bad you mistreated them. When you have no body else who love and care of you, then you will sorry to ever mean to them.
Nympho Travel Agent sent topless pictures? Doesn’t you love that kind of pictures?
Hello “PP”
Your comment actually went to SPAM, because IP addresses don’t lie about identities, even when email addresses do. (the joys of good spam filtration tech)
I allowed your comment to serve as an example to others why you are on The_Psychos group. I never mentioned “Miss Split-Personality” and “Nympho Travel Agent” in past posts, thus you just gave yourself away, lol.
Love? Did I said The Stalker (who I did write of in the past) love me? I said The Stalker STALKED me. That’s not love. That’s obsession. If you happen to have no one who love or care about you, maybe you should do a self evaluation, rather than look at others for the reason (everyone can’t be wrong). *~ ok, that was harsh, but true ~*
Nope, I do not like those types of pics, especially from strangers I knew for about 20min. Would you want to receive something like that while making travel plans? I’ve heard of full service travel agents, but that is somewhat extreme, no?
By the way: I know who you are, and the spam filter still works. Just wanted you to know…
LOL
“She” is STILL making fake logins to pretend to be different people? hahahahahaha
She told so much about HERSELF and does not even realize it!
1. she still has mental problems pretending to be people she is not (what is the count now for distinct persons she has been?).
2. she still upset you turn her therapy-deprived butt down
3. no one wants her, thus her “when you have no one else….” comment
Maybe she should just be HERSELF, stop playing games with people, and then, maybe someone will know the real her, and like the real her, and she can then MOVE ON.
And yes, I do not like her, her, her, her and her (one for each personality!)
P.S. -
What quality person wants their travel agent to send nude or half nude pictures to them??? The fact she is even surprised someone does not want that says a lot about her own morals and character. I’m sure her daddy is pleased
and yes, I still do not like her! x(
Jing, SIT! STAY!
I only allowed her post, so she will maybe stop bothering to create fake names and putting fake email addresses. IP addresses, and PC/laptop machine name addresses (yes, my blog can read those too, so taking a laptop to diff cafe wont help you) do not lie.
Anyway, God-speed to her and hope she has a happy life (but you were right, she need to stop games, and just be her self).
I don’t like weird people hehehe… Don’t worry Rodney, you have a real (not imaginary) true friends – lots of friends – who love you and care about you
Hmmm… I remember about a week ago (when I posted the same post as this one on my blog) you have double account on FB. Same name, same picture… maybe it was Yendor? or… or…? But whoever the person is, who made your fake account, he/she is too stupid to realize that I can call and ask you hehehehe… So think before you do or say something (^^)v
I am not certain who PP is, but it is obvious she did not give too much thought to her comment.
It is desperate sounding. Jing did really peg it: she speak of herself so much.
I only can say wow. I would be embarrassed to be her (and i do not say that to be mean, but to be honest).
Hey Nita,
YES! I remember when you told me of the 2nd FB account! I laughed so hard that someone would go through so much trouble to be me. It just showed she still is at her multi-personality games, even after all this time. It’s pathetic because she’s learnt nothing at all, and showing the world, herself, she still does that stuff.
Chie-chan,
1. My brain hurts from your Kanji emails hahahaha
2. She thought she is being clever, but she just ended up doing the opposite. In the past, I allowed her comments to just die in the depths of Spam, but maybe this is what is needed to wake her up to stop. And if not, does not matter to me, as this is a one time thing (allowing her post).
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