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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
by Mark Carras
Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel review
Marriott Chef delivering bun
So another weekend of Gnomedex and another weekend at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel. This may have been the last year of Gnomedex but another tech conference had it’s first year at the exact same conference center. For some reason they thought PII was a good name despite everyone already pronouncing it like Pee. So even though I won’t be going up for Gnomedex next year, I do hope to go up for Seattle Geek week and Pee…er, I mean Pii. So I figured why not review this years stay at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel?
The staff as always was great. I’ve never seen a group of people work so hard to make little ol’ me feel as comfortable as possible. It was nice to see Nicole (I’m starting to learn names, how sad is that?) at the front desk again. She has a pleasant laugh and a relaxing smile. Even though I know she is paid to have that laugh and smile she does it so well I am led to believe there is some sincerity to it. I’m as cynical as it gets, but she seems to actually give a crap and have fun with her job.
The chef made me laugh this year though. Last year Ciabatta buns were all the rage, so I understood why they had one of those nasty things on the burger I ordered. This year however it was a freakin’ pancake! No joke. I was told it was some sort of flat bread, but if it looked like a pancake, smelled like a pancake, and sure as heck tasted like a pancake, I think it is safe to say that was a damn pancake! It reminded me of those images of a rabbit with a pancake on it’s head. “I have no idea what you are saying so here’s a bunny with a pancake on it’s head.” So I felt like the chef was telling me, “I have no idea what you are saying, so here’s a burger with a pancake on it’s head.” To be clear, the burger tasted great otherwise. It would have been better with a real (traditional) bun, but the pancake made me laugh more than anything. It was more goofy and silly than anything that would have ruined the meal. The omelet I had on Sunday morning was way better than the one I had on the Sunday morning last year. Not sure why. Maybe it was cooked more thoroughly? Maybe I ordered different ingredients? Maybe they changed cooks, methods, recipes, equipment, or something else. All I know is that It was pretty packed with awesome.
The maid service was great of course. I think the maids got used to me leaving at 8 am for the conference. So when I slept in until about ten and was still getting stuff ready for check out at 11:00 a very polite and apologetic lady came in to change the bed sheets. If I was forced to find one complaint it would be that they kept moving the program schedule and remote to the tv. Who needs it there? I need it on the nightstand! But if that is the biggest complaint I can think of, that is some awesome work! Let me also say the guys out in front are always jumping on any excuse they can to serve you. It kind of threw a guy like me for a loop to be honest. I’m just not used to that sort of thing. I heard that the hotel was packed all weekend, but yet it just didn’t seem like it. Everything was nice and quiet. Sure there was people, but it still maintained a very relaxing vibe to me. I have heard about hotels that are about half the price just a block or two up the street, but the staff at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel treat me so well that I am afraid to try anywhere else next year. Now everyone, let me hear you scream, “Pee, Pee, Pee, Pee, Pee!” Oh, right. It’s Pii. Sorry, I keep forgetting.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
by Mark Carras
The Cheaper Price Is A Rip Off!
Cheap
Free Gets Rid Of The Riff Raff
So this weekend National Parks in the U.S. will wave their fees. So our parks will now be wall to wall with no room to fart if you need to. Yet you will be able to smell the methane of the camper next to you. How can you enjoy nature when your head is in the armpit of the family camping “next” to you? You would get way more value by paying the entrance fee the following weekend. However, the fools that go during the “free” weekend are the reason. When you pay they won’t be there! With all of them going the weekend before, they make things extremely more enjoyable for you the next weekend when you pay. The cheaper price is a rip off! Unless you like being ass to mouth with the stranger camping next to you? This free weekend clears out everyone else so you can enjoy the experience.
Beat Up The Deaf Guy?
Recently some security guards ended up tackling a deaf guy coming out of a store and choking him until his face turned all kinds of pretty colors (click here). The reason they tackled him? He didn’t stop when the alarm went off. The mall probably went for the cheaper security company. Now they will end up being sued to the tune of millions of dollars and end up with a crippling PR nightmare. If they would have spent a little more money they would have ended up with a highly trained security staff that would be able to figure out why the man didn’t stop before just tackling him. Maybe his friend frantically throwing sign language at them could have been a sign? That cheaper price is going to cost them dearly.
It’s Not Just HFCS That Is Making You Fat
If you buy high quality food for your family their bodies will feel nourished with less food than if you feed them junk. This will cause them to eat less, not get sick as often, and just offer a higher quality of life over all. The children will be able to focus in school better, get better grades, learn more from the experience, and end up with way better jobs in the end. The family that eats the cheaper food will spend more time at the doctors, always feel more lethargic, not be as focused, and not get near as far in life. The cheaper price is a rip off!
Go Big Or Go Home Wussy
If I buy a computer, I always like to get the best computer I can possibly afford. I want the fastest processor, the biggest hard drive, the most memory, and the highest quality parts. Because of this my stuff lasts for years and years. I edit hi rez images that are thousands of pixels wide. I edit video that looks great on a widescreen tv. I do all kinds of very processor intensive stuff for several years without a problem. My computers last with very few repairs. It’s when I bought a cheaper computer that I ended up with endless repair bills, breakdowns that cost me days of productivity, and an overall more expensive experience. The cheaper price is a rip off!
Short Term Thining Or Long Term Thinking?
So why does the United States always look so hard for the cheaper price? They fail to see the big picture. They think they need to pay the cheaper price because they “don’t make a lot of money.” The problem is that they don’t have enough money because it is spent on the costs of always going for the cheaper price. It’s short term thinking instead of long term thinking. Always ask yourself why that bag of vegetables is cheaper than the other bag of vegetables? Maybe it’s because the cheaper vegetables were grown on a massive corporate farm with tons of pesticides. The more expensive farm was grown organically without tons of chemicals. It was a smaller farm with a family of farmers that have grown up generation after generation passing down the knowledge of how to grow the highest quality vegetables possible. How do you make sure that your vegetables have the most nutrition it possibly can? The big corporate farm only cares about whatever the cheapest method is. It has nothing to do with quality of the product or making sure your family get a healthy meal. The cheaper price is a rip off…even when they both seem like the same exact product on the surface.
A Cheap Widget Vs A Quality Widget
A Widget for the record is a non specific product. It is used in situations where you want to discuss something without someone missing the point because of the example. So fill in whatever you want when I say widget. If you have the choice to buy a widget for $10 or buy a widget for $1 which is the better deal? Most would go right to the $1 widget without a thought. Of course the key part ot that sentence is “without a thought”. What if you end up replacing that cheap $1 widget every week. But the person who bought the $10 version of the widget has to replace it once a year? Who saves more money? What is the better deal?
Almost always the cheaper price is a rip off! Look for quality instead.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
by Mark Carras
What SquareSpace is getting wrong!
Now before I go into what they are doing wrong, I want to talk about what they do right. First off I love that there is no way to download the CMS and use it on another server. Why? Because they take care of all the software patches and security updates behind the scenes. Stuff just works. I want to focus on content, not some security patch. They also respond very quickly to Twitter questions and their support tickets. The site looks very modern with very little work. Posting updates is at least as easy as it is on Word Press. In many cases it is even easier because no one has to worry if they installed something wrong. I have to use a hack to get images to work on this site. Never could figure out what setting is wrong, but the internal image upload has never worked. It’s part of the reason I wanted Squarespace to work. This Word Press isn’t working as well as I would like. I wanted to replace it. I wanted Squarespace to be that replacement.
Squarespace
Now For The Negative
So here I am trying out Squarespace. I am trying to figure out their really horrid interface so I can explain it to my client. So far it is driving me nuts! It is nowhere near intuitive. I feel like I need to take a week of classes to figure out what the heck they mean on these tutorials. No wonder this place is only being used by the hardest core geeks. You have to be a super nerd to even fight through this freakin mess! Unless Squarespace improves quickly I predict they will go under in a few years. This is as intuitive as brain surgery!
Not Intuitive at all!
There is a spot where it said to edit site name. I clicked on the link and it just kept refreshing the page. Why would it do that? Why not send me to the page where I can edit the site name instead? Why else would someone click on that? Just an idea SquareSpace folks. Make it work like people would guess it would work. Now I figured out how to get this to work eventually, but that is my problem with Squarespace. It is not at all intuitive. There is a major learning curve to their system. Most will get frustrated before they get that far and just keep putting up with Word Press.
Video Tutorials Good. No Full Screen bad!
So I go to watch the video tutorial they have available. I love video tutorials and find them to be the best method of showing people something like this. So they earn points for having those available. Problem is they don’t let me watch it full screen! I have a feeling they are using Vimeo to host their video. I use Vimeo as well so I know Vimeo has a square button to the bottom right that let’s me watch the video in full screen mode. For some reason SquareSpace has that blocked. Why would they do that? I tried watching the video. It looks like I could learn a ton from it if I could see what is going on better. Without going fullscreen things were too small and I found it only left me more frustrated.
Support Ticket?
Although they do respond very quickly to the support tickets, they sometimes fall into the tech support trap of coming off like a bot. . On my first question I thought it was a bot! Either that or their support is outsourced to India and the person was just giving me what the book told him was the standard answer. It was almost as if my question was ignored. A very quick phone call could have solved this. They don’t have phone support.
What Could Save Squarespace
Phone support. Plain and simple. Their CMS is great once you get the hang of it, but most will get frustrated with the learning curve and go back to putting up with the evil they are used to (Word Press). Charge $60 a week for phone support. I would pay that without hesitation. I understand good phone support is expensive for a start up like theirs, so charge extra. The customers that are serious will pay it.
Serious Design Still Goes To The Pros
Just as with Word Press, if you are really serious about your site you will want to hire a pro designer. Just like with Word Press you can get a site that looks ok without one. In fact, as far as design goes it is pretty much even. That is why Support is where Squarespace can beat them. If only they had phone support.
Please take my money Squarespace…I beg you! Let me pay for phone support!
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
by Mark Carras
Who Makes What On Tv?
Money
For the record-I despise copy and paste journalism. This is a very rare occasion where I am doing it though. I would give credit, but I stole it from a copy and paste website that has the most spammy ads of any site I’ve seen on the internet. If you know of the original source I will remove everything from this post and replace it with a link to that site instead. Until then enjoy. I found this VERY interesting.
Drama (per episode)
Hugh Laurie (House) $400,000+
Christopher Meloni & Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order : SVU) $395,000 (each)
David Caruso (CSI : Miami) $375,000
Marg Helgenberger (CSI) $375,000
Mark Harmon (NCIS) $375,000
Laurence Fishburne (CSI) $350,000
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) $350,000
Denis Leary (Rescue Me) $350,000
Gary Sinise (CSI : NY ) $275,000
Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy) $250,000
David Boreanaz (Bones) $200,000
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) $200,000
Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife ) $175,000
Dana Delany (Body of Proof ) $150,000
Lauren Graham (Parenthood) $150,000
Jada Pinkett Smith (HawthoRNe) $150,000
Jimmy Smits (Outlaw) $150,000
LL Cool J (NCIS : Los Angeles) $125,000
Chris O’Donnell (NCIS : Los Angeles) $125,000
Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) $125,000
Jason Lee (Memphis Beat) $125,000
Joe Mantegna (Criminal Minds) $125,000
Tom Selleck (Blue Bloods) $125,000
Michael Weatherly (NCIS) $125,000
Matt Bomer (White Collar) $100,000
Nathan Fillion (Castle) $100,000
Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds) $100,000
Jon Hamm (Mad Men) $100,000
Cole Hauser (Chase) $100,000
Alex O’Loughlin (Hawaii Five-0) $100,000
Timothy Olyphant (Justified ) $100,000
Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-0) $80,000
Angie Harmon (Rizzoli & Isles) $75,000
Anna Paquin (True Blood) $75,000
Blair Underwood (The Event) $75,000
Zachary Levi (Chuck) $60,000
Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries) $40,000
Shailene Woodley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) $40,000
Ashley Tisdale (Hellcats) $30,000
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
by Mark Carras
Top Ten Reasons I Block Everyone From Posting On My Facebook Wall
Facebook
10. Posting REALLY old internet jokes
Yes I know about Rick Rolling and no you are not funny. You are several years behind in fact. Get with the times.
9. Bored People With Nothing To Say
Oh these types are the worst. They have nothing to say but yet they keep typing. Why? Because they don’t want to admit that their lives about about as pleasant as a chainsaw enema. It’s like taking some bimbo home who wants to talk afterwards, but blabber on and on about crap you couldn’t even pretend to care about. Please save me the trouble and just go play Farmville with the other idiots. You can’t handle a real conversation anyways.
8. Posting Things I Hate Because You Think It Is Funny
This is the same as posting a Rick Roll and thinking you are cutting edge. If one of my friends does this funny thing a day, is it still funny? No. You didn’t “Get me real good that time.” I’m just irritated at your lack of imagination. When I had my wall open I would get people pulling that same prank everyday. Sometimes several times a day. Somehow each one of them thought they were funny and original. They weren’t.
7. Invites To Farmville
So I ignore your invite my email, but you think I will fall in love with that waste of braincells game if you post it on my wall? I’m not on Facebook for brainless games. I’m on Facebook for conversation. When I want to unplug I will go in the bedroom and watch tv.
6. What About My Friends Who Just Want To Catch Up?
Sometimes I want to catch up with an old friend. So I go to their wall to read up on what is happening in their lives. What I end up reading is endless lists of crap from other people. When you go to my wall you will only see what I am up to. Makes it easier for everyone.
5. Posting Videos Of Bands I Hate
No I really don’t care about the latest whiny little bitch emo band. I also don’t care about the latest flat monotone metalcore band. If the band didn’t come out between 1985 – 1995 I think they suck. I’m old and cranky. Deal with it. You are blocked for trying to make my wall look like I’m some trendy loser who still lives in his mothers basement. Get a real job!
4. People who post a reply to a thread by starting another thread on my freaking wall.
You really think you are THAT special? Why can’t you post the reply within the thread of the conversation along with everyone else? You give arrogant Bastard a bad name. I’d rather drink the beer.
3. Things that are better put in the Facebook email system
If you want to ask me a question send me an email. No one else needs to read about your computer problems (or whatever other lame thing you are asking about).
2. Spammers
Ok, this isn’t too common as Facebook has a pretty easy way to block unwanted people, but with what I do online I can only be so picky. A spammer does get in from time to time and I don’t want gay pron sitting on my wall for 8 – 16 hours before I notice it.
1. No Reason For It Really
Ok, now I run three fan pages for three different websites. I totally understand why someone would want to posting something on those walls. It would be stupid to block fans from posting on the wall of a band. If I do an interview with a band that band should want me to post a link on their fan page. Their fans probably want to see that. But a personal wall? No reason. When I posting something, reply within THAT thread. Don’t start a new one. If you want me to check something out, use the email system. If I like it I will hit that share button. There is no reason for you to post on my wall. There is no reason for anyone to post on anyone’s personal wall. There are better alternatives. Use them.
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
by Mark Carras
The Positive Side Of Negativity:
Negativity
I find it interesting that I can post things in my status to all my social networks like “You People All Suck” or YouTube clips where someone has taken the best insults from major movies and people react positively. However, I am not confused by this in any way. The truth is that there is a ton of positive things that come along with negativity. For one it makes people laugh. The mockery of the uber happy brings true honest joy to many. The uber happy come off as fake and plastic to most of us. Real motivational posters are full of crap. So it is no shock to anyone with a brain that DeMotivators became so popular.
My brother in law used to (he still might) have homemade motivational posters hung wall to wall in his classroom. They were all full of crap and his co-workers find great joy mocking him behind his back about it. He is a laughing stock. He was so into the fake motivational poster line of thinking that he was down right creepy. Don’t believe me? CLICK HERE and take a look at his website. This guy is so full of himself it should cause the world to collapse on it’s self! He is the poster boy of douchebags, but anyone who is loyal to motivational posters are laughed at just like him. The reason is pretty obvious to anyone who has a clear head and an open mind. For the rest of you let me explain.
So one poster I have started to see a lot is “Go out and do good things!” Now on the surface that sounds like a good thing. However it is total bullshit. What good things? Good things according to whom? I’m pretty sure Adolf Hitler thought he was doing good things. Most would not agree. So that saying is empty and meaningless. That is why we make fun of it. Every motivational poster I’ve ever seen is like this. It is so vague that it has more holes than a spaghetti strainer (Pasta Colander if you’re a douchebag).
So motivational posters, motivational speakers, and the people who fall for their garbage are as fake as it gets. The people who mock them end up with an honest joy, a real smile on their face, and a warm feeling in their hearts because of the humor, the negative people are more happy and honest. Be honest with your self and you will know I am right. It’s the positive side of negativity. So laugh it up. I had a small statue as a kid that helped me through a lot of rough times. It was this little guy with a sign that said “Laugh at your problems. Everyone else does.” Mockery is the spice of life!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
by Mark Carras
Why Foursquare Will Be Dead One Year From Now
Foursquare
My Life Sucks Too Much For Foursquare
So Foursquare keeps growing and growing eh? Fine, but I don’t think it can ever be as big as Twitter or Facebook. The reason is that most of us are boring. I include myself in this category. I used go from home to work and then a few hours latter I go from work to home. Well, I’m not going to announce where I live so the only thing I would ever post is my workplace. Sure there is a rare time that I go out to a restaurant with my wife. A few times a year we go to the movies. About 5 times a years I go to a concert. Other than that I might go to a friends house, but I’m not going to post that. Ok, I also go to the store. So let’s say 20 times a year I go to a restaurant, 5 times a year I go to the movies, and 5 times a year I go to a concert. That’s not exciting at all! Is that worth posting?
Most Peoples Lives Suck Too Much For Foursquare
With 30 postable locations a year other than my workplace, this is less exciting than if I posted what I’m eating for dinner every night. Sure I post a photo of a really awesome meal every once in awhile, but for the most part I make fun of people that post boring crap like that. Sure people in Silicon Valley go to all kinds of exciting places all the time. Of course people with a really good job can go out to all kinds of interesting places every weekend, but most of America is poor as hell!
Foursquare Will Be Friendster In A Year
Can Forsquare really survive on people posting updates of work, Wal-Mart, home, work, Wal-Mart, home? That is most of America with very little diversity. The amount of people that can afford to go beyond that are a small percentage of the country. According to most internet ranking sites Foursquare ranks inside the top 1,000 websites on the internet. I think this is about as far as it is going to get. Yes, it will get a little higher for a short blip of time. They will make some deals to get those home, work, Wal-mart, home level users. But those users will get bored of the site really quick since they don’t have the exciting updates that the top users post. It will only remind them that their life sucks and is boring. People don’t like that and they will stop posting updates. Once this final spike of the site is done even the cool kids will leave and the site will be the latest Friendster.
Mark my words… At this time next year Foursquare will be looked back on as a failure.
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
by Mark Carras
Events On Social Networks Are Useless
Facebook Events
Are You Training People To Reject Your Invite?
I follow a ton of people from all over the world on most social networks. So I get invites to things all over the world. The problem is that I loose money on my music industry related activities already. So there is no way I am taking a private jet to your local club show. I know, what’s the harm when all I have to do is take a few seconds to click ignore on the event that was mass blasted to everyone on that persons list? Well, it’s kind of like when the “Are you sure you want to delete that” pop ups that our computers give us before hitting delete. Does anyone even pay any attention to them at all? I am so used to hitting that ok button that even if a part of my brain is questioning the deletion, my hand has already deleted the item before I can even save it. The same thing happens with your events. When I see that question of “Will you attend this event”, I hit no before I even stop to check the location. I click that no button before I even look to see what that event is.
Why Did You Promote The Event On Facebook?
Because everyone just blasts everything to everyone, everyone is jaded to the event invites. So no one really pays any attention to them at all. Sure your best friend will click yes. Your girlfriend will click yes. Your bandmates will mostly click yes (sorry but your drummer is dumber than a rock and doesn’t get it), but will this improve attendance? Not one bit. You will be lucky to get one person to attend that would not have attended otherwise. Wasn’t that the point? To get more people to show up than who would have otherwise? Then stop blasting it to everyone because you are training people to reject your events without even thinking about it. It is a knee jerk reaction because of the constant blasts we all get from every band from all over the world.
Have You Ever Even Mentioned The State Or City?
Most band’s don’t even mention the state or city. So I have rejected events and found out later it was a local show at a club I had never heard of before. At least list the state and city or your event post failed right out of the gate.
It’s Not All Bad News
So is this nothing but bad news? No. You can stop it. We all need to do our part to stop people from blasting everyone for an event that only 10% of their followers are even capable of attending. Most of the social networks have a way of selecting only the people from your area. Can we start a campaign to not just click no, but to say why in the comments. When an online friend invites you to an event in another state or country, link to this article. Or you can just type “Stop inviting people from out of state, it hurts us non-spamming bands jerkface!” Ok, make up your own line if you want. I just think it would be funny if EVERYONE started using that one. If they don’t list the city and state post that you have no idea what part of the world the event is at and that is why you will not attend. It will take more of an effort than most will be able to muster, but if enough of us do this we can change the pattern and maybe a few habits. Or maybe this is just a way for your band to rise above the rest?
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
by Mark Carras
R2-D2 Droid: Verizon Why Must You Torture Me!
Droid 2
So more official news is finally coming out about the Droid 2. Anyone who has been paying any attention at all to my social networks is probably sick of me talking about it. I know my wife is. She’s told me as much. So now it is pretty much official that the Droid 2 may be ordered online on Wednesday and may be ordered in store on Thursday of this week. So not only is my waiting over, but I will now be able to have a new phone in time for Gnomedex. So I’m happy right? Oh hell no!
At the same time as they announce that I can get my Droid 2 in time for Gnomedex, they also announce that if I wait just a few weeks more I can get an R2-D2 version of the phone. With me being a major Star Wars nerd from way back before most of you were born, this is pure torture! There is no way I can wait any longer for a new phone, so I am going to get the regular Droid 2. However, I may have to put up with insane amounts of flack from my wife for switching up to the R2D2 version when it comes out just a few weeks later. Would I pay an extra couple hundred dollars to have a Star Wars version of a phone I purchased just weeks prior? Yes, I am THAT pathetic!
Now of course Verizon has a 30 day return policy, but I’m willing to bet they will release the R2D2 Droid 2 just over one month after the regular Droid 2. So either those poor clerks will have to deal with a flood of excited nerds exchanging their phones or they will deal with really pissed off nerds wanting to exchange their phones, but not being able to. Of course one could just wait an extra couple weeks before buying the regular Droid 2, so they fit into that return policy window, but I’m an American and so I’m more impatient than an Apple fanboy waiting for a chance to sniff Steve Jobs boxers.
No worries people. I hear that there will be a Verizon representative at Gnomedex, so I will do my best to get an interview with them. Maybe I can find out a way to get upgraded to the R2D2 phone from the regular Droid 2 without paying a few extra hundred dollars? So to my fellow nerds please keep watching this page for updates next weekend for further updates on this insanity. Before then I should be blogging daily about my adventures trying to get a Droid 2 phone on Thursday morning. Anyone want to go hunting with me?
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
by Mark Carras
Why Do You Share On Facebook?
Facebook
For most of the time I have been on Facebook, I have been bothered by some of the posting behavior of my fellow users. Recently it has started bothering me less and less. Why, because I have started to accept that everyone looks to Facebook for different reasons. These reasons are starting to intrigue me.
The Reasons I post
When I ost something it is to share some form of information that I think others may have a want or need for. This could be a music video, article, or perception of thinking. However, I try my best to not share things that others have seen a million times before. No matter how much I love a song, why post a video most have seen already? Wouldn’t it be better to post something new? I have always heard that social networking is all about content. The better the content the more people will not only follow you, but also pay attention. If I post some Nickelback video, to me it is a bigger mistake that people have seen it before than the mistake of posting something so many so passionately hate. I find no issue with posting a video people despise. I do however have a major problem with people posting a video that people have seen a million times before.
Sorry I was offended by your offensive behavior
There was once a person I followed on Facebook that would post the same mainstream videos everyday. There was about ten of them. I have wondered if it was some posting bot on a loop because there was never much variation to it. I majorly offended the person when I asked if that was the case. I was honestly just trying to find out why one would post the same thing over and over again everyday. It made no sense to me.
Who Pays For My Therapy?
Here I was thinking that it was silly to post something most have seen and this person goes and posts the same thing over and over again everyday. How many people on her list of friends had not seen that video by the tenth time she posted it? I am willing to bet that most of them had seen it before she posted it once. It was pretty mainstream. It would be like teaching a child that humans never eat hot dogs ever and to eat one would be wrong. Then that child goes to a hot dog eating contest where someone eats packages after packages of lips and bung holes. That child might need some therapy. This wasn’t just someone breaking the rules that I held sacred. That I could deal with. This was pissing on the bible in front of the Pope and and setting the book on fire!
I’m better now, really
Now I see people posting mundane things all the time and it still makes me twitch a little. I still see people trying to pull off Rickrolling like it’s a new thing! But now I see that even though Facebook and Twitter are for posting content of some sort that most have not seen, for others that is not the case. For that person that posted that Nickleback video everyday, Facebook might be the place where you are letting others know what you are listening to. So you can post a video because you think others should see it, or just because you want others to know what you are currently listening to. So before you go off on someone for breaking some sacred rule of conduct in social networking, know that for some it’s not about the actual networking. Hell, sometimes they just want to unplug their brains and play Farmville…(*shudder*).