A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the reasons I hate Myspace. In this post I’m going to list some of the reason that made me fall in love with Facebook:
Unlike MySpace, Facebook people have come up with a sleek simple design that looks quite clean evenfor busy social networkers with hundreds of friends and networks. I simply love the design and many people join me on that point.
FB is a social website that can be painlessly tweeked into a professional working place. You can think of the tools as an altenative to emails, phone calls, snail mail, blogging… WWD have compiled a list of 12 to use face book professionally.
The news feed in fb help me get in touch instantly with my friends and colleagues without the fuss MSN creates. Of course twitter should get credit for that idea.
NGO’s and associations with limited financial resources can have their word heard online professionally and reach their traget clientele though advertisng on given networks.
I can find anyone on fb ranging from my primary school friends to current work colleagues, Kings, CEO’s and famous people. There are goup fans even for the dead. To stop abuse, fb have adopted an efficient privacy policy that helps people connect but at the same time dont get them overwhelmed.
I can sneak in anytime to learn about what the others are doing (alas, that’s human!)
People are referenced (most of the time) under their real names unless they mean to deceive the others.
Applications turn to be highly useful and entertaining. My favourites at this time are : addicted to Boston Legal & Send Coffee
FB reminds me of my friends’ birthdays!
I can instantly promote my wordpress blogs!
Do you love facebook as well? Do you have any more reasons apart from the above mentioned? Or do you prefer anoter socialwebsite? Please share.
Search engines have become more popluar that address bars. That’s what I learnt from m friends and colleagues. Whenever I give them a URL (let’s say: yassine36.wordpress.com) They simply type “www.google” in the address bar then entre my URL in the search bar. In my opinion that’s the awkward way to go to a site that you know.
Luckily, Leelefever and his wife Sachi have made an In Plain English video on web search startegies that anyone can use with any search engine (not only google !!)
Google Chrome’s new browser has changed many things and now is allowing searching the web from the address bar! But that thig deserve another post….
Do you have any particular method of searching the web?
I’m a web 2.0 geek! Whenever I come across a new website, I subscribe to it and move their confirmation to my “SignUps” folder on my Yahoo! mailbox. So obessesed that I don’t wanna miss a thing. That results innot checking 80% of the sites I adhere to unless they trurn out to be “The Next Thing”.
I signed up with Facebook about a year ago and though i don’t regularly check it It’s “him” who checks me! As i was curious at the beginning, I installed some applications (including my blog feed), invited my freinds to join me, uploaded my pic and joined a couple of groups there. Not all my facebook friends are active, but I receive notifications about my friends making freinds online. That sounds like a “Spy Kids” game!
The striking thing is that relationships are differently shaped there; poking instead of whistling (alluding to the Moroccan wooing way “Fss fsss”) adding as a friend rather than inviting to a dinner or “clicking away the pain” instead of consoling. Watch the video below to learn how facebookers spend their day !
How many websites do you check each time you connect to the internet?
If you open at least ten windows/tabs to check news sites, blogs and comments on posts, favourite websites, and other stuff each time you go online like me then you are in desperate need to know about RSS and this video should be a good starting point:
The transcript of this video can be found here and a subtitled version for those who want to follow while reading.
