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by Jess3

The Average user watches 182 videos online a month? Oh man, no wonder why I am single. I am such an overachiever.

tone_def posted this link, Unlink Your Feeds – A Manifesto a couple of days ago. I thought I would share it with you all. Tim Maly makes some good points and that first page is a quick read, so don’t be scared to click the link. One of the things he doesn’t mention in his post is that some people are reading their social networks in one application. So, your feed literally does look like duplicates if someone is following you on 2 networks.

Personally, I felt strange about mixing audiences by linking Twitter to Facebook. Honestly, Facebook is mostly full of dudes that were in my college courses six years ago. On the other hand, my Twitter followers are close friends, most of who I have hung out with. (Luckily, no one reads the blog or I’d probably pay for this observation on FB.)  The people on FB could probably care less I was in town or in a bad mood. Now, my tweeps may be concerned as they may want to get lunch or keep clear of me.

Prior to FB’s redesign that put the news feed/status updates as the focus, the two social networks were very different creatures. To some extent they still are with FB being more content rich. (Though, I would call it clutter.) Thus, Maly’s point is “using each service for what it is.” For example, while I’d encourage you to spend time with your family face to face, FB does allow you to share photos and videos with the family. (Easily done with links on Twitter too.) Twitter is much more real-time focused, short and sweet with no pictures, videos, marketplaces or games to clutter up the communication. Maybe you want to jab at a friend because your college team is beating their college at the moment. Rather than calling them, you tweet it at them.

Finally, a funny story about this linking feeds concept- Not too long ago I decided to construct a Facebook Fan Page for this website. Mainly, I was feeling like an adbot or something on FB because I hardly used my account except to share my website posts (through an RSS feed, oops!). I continued to share my links to blog posts on Twitter, while also posting the links to the FB fan page. Someone (I won’t name names), commented about the duplicate posts on my Twitter account and on the FB fan page which showed up in their FB news feed. Then, that person stopped being a fan on FB. I don’t know why he/she didn’t notice that my personal FB and Twitter statuses were posting links prior to the creation of the fan page.

Anyway, I completely understood the reason I lost a fan. I would probably do the same. However, I did find it hilarious that this person uses a Twitter app to feed their status into FB.

Anyway, check out the Manifesto, he’s got examples and even a form letter to send someone.

via MattBors.com

I don’t know how I missed this one, but The Oatmeal has put together a little chart discussing the different types of people on the FB.

via Neatorama

See the whole thing and learn about the other types at How to Suck at Facebook.

Retro. Fun. Colorful.

via Motionographer

Of course, minus 90 points for mentioning Facebook and Myspace in the rap.

The Joy of Tech

Hey Jackhole! Don’t tag me in this photo. Buy me this Tee.

Picture within a picture? Simple and fun photography concept. A Walk Through Time. (Thanks Birch)

If you are here, than this flow chart is redundant. However, you may want to show it to others to prove you aren’t the only one. Go Online?

My new favorite daily blog to check – Clients From Hell.

In case you missed my tweets or live under a rock, How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell.

$750 cupcake? I’ll pass. Instead, I will eat $750 worth of normal cupcakes.

As the website says, “Wanna meet your real neighbours again?” Web 2.0 Suicide Machine

The most painful figure skating falls. Ouch.

The periodic table of beer styles should be studied while sober. Go figure.

A slice of single-serving goodness, Look at this fucking idea for a blog-to-book deal. Hilarious!

You can skip my rant and just watch the video.

I was just saying on Twitter how amazing it is to me that people are so eager to receive junk mail & advertising. I mean if someone asks for your name and address you get defensive about your privacy, unless they throw the words “Social Network” in front of their proposal.

Now we have people out there calling themselves professionals who are labeled Social Marketing experts. The job is to advertise the company they work for on social networks like twitter, facebook, etc. The name of the game is exposure. Forget quality interactions, lets just see how many fans we can get on our Facebook fan page because that means more customers! Let us worship our all mighty god QUANTITY!! As consumerism is our religion, MORE is our goal.

The folks who lampooned twitter have called out the LinkedIn in the following video.

via iheartchaos

It’s that time again. Time for you to renew your meds so you don’t have another…I mean, time for me to clean my desktop off & give you the links I’ve been saving.

Since Facebook is the bee’s knees despite my objections, it has become popular enough to be faked in the form of ads, viruses and of course to be me made fun of. Now, you can make your own FB comments.

For you math lovers, I found this music video for Lusine’s Two Dots. A clever & simple animation.

If you don’t know who Ron Artest is, you are not missing anything. He’s your cliché NBA goon who thinks he is a rapper. Apparently, his twitter account is entertaining. Complex’s list: 10 Best Artest Tweets

Liquor commercials are so obsessed with tentacles. Finally, one company just decided to name themselves Kraken.

Hey, look it’s the one thing you’d think you would find here on this site: Top 5 Sick Day Fails.

It’s a pop-up cardboard office.

Oh, man. It is official, imagination is dead. Who needs it when we can make anything. Illuminated JetBib Feeding System.

If I knock you out in a bar fight, can I take your teeth as a trophy and wear it? Human Teeth Jewelry.

The image below reminds me of an early Sikkdays.com post.