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pagesbyapaige Through my specs, I see things.
A post by Parker recently inspired me to create an action-items list for my social media accounts if I were to become suddenly incapacitated for an extended period of time. So, internet friends, here is what I want to happen if I am incapacitated and my name is printed somewhere that would inspire Google searches.
- Lock down my twitter account.
Make it private. No need to delete my inane posts about stupid things like Smash drinking games, GOP debate drinking games, and awkward party drinking games—just, make them a little less easy to find. - Delete my main Tumblog and redirect that URL to some charity site.
There are enough links back to my blog to do some good—just not any good for my comatose ass’s reputation.Side note: the #1 post on my blog is a copy and pate job I did in 2008 from the Facebook list of birthdays. Thanks vanity searches! - Point journalists to my LinkedIn and G+ accounts. Those are leastembarrassing.
Or, point them to my Path account. Basically, I get in trouble when I interact with people. Human interaction brings out the worst in me. These internet waste-lands are either blather about music I listen to and overly filtered photos or blather about the news/TV and comments from Nicki and Ahmaud*. - Go nuclear with my Facebook account.
I recently reset my Facebook account and it’s already an embarrassing cesspool of Youtube videos and awkward exchanges I thought would be funny at the time.** We would all be better off without Facebook—I just need it to plan trips and events.
*Whenever I read his full name, I get that Mr. Templeton song from 30 Rock stuck in my head.
**Note to self: it’s never funny a week later.
With everyone freaking out about Google’s new privacy policy, I wonder if everyone will take Eleanor Waldorf’s lead and start using Bing? It’s doubtful since Bing pilfers through your Facebook data in ways that would make Google+ blush. The only search engine that seems to be up on privacy is DuckDuck Go. Though, you’re probably wondering what that is as you read this post.
P.S. Remember that time Jenny Humphrey Binged cancer? That was nice.
Adrian Chen of Gawker writes that “tech news is so phenomenally boring”. A story of mine, Facebook’s iPad app being hidden inside of the iPhone app, is the prime example used.
Nevermind that Chen is complaining about tech news not really being “news” while writing a story that is even less “news” in the name of pageviews. We all do that sometimes.
Nevermind that Chen is writing his story for a site that routinely covers the private lives of tech individuals as “news”.
What irks me here, though only ever so slightly, is that Chen is essentially telling people what they should find interesting. People are interested in Facebook and in the iPad. Should they not be because it’s not as important as the potential collapse of the economy if the debt ceiling isn’t raised?
Maybe people should stop having any interests.Technology — including yes, Facebook and the iPad — is an ever-growing part of everyones’ lives. Not surprisingly, many people like reading about it. They want to stay up to date on the latest happenings, not matter how trivial they may seem to others. I know that even if I hadn’t written that story, I would have read the shit out of it. So sue me.
This was a legitimate tech story. It wasn’t “Osama Bin Laden Dead Viagra Cialis Attorney Porn Fetish Gaga Bieber”.
And it certainly wasn’t tech news about tech news about tech news about tech news.
Gee, what am I reminded of?
Oh…right.
Importing Facebook contacts into Google+ is not the huge hassle that most articles on the matter would make you believe.
See, Yahoo! Mail has a feature that allows you to import all of your Facebook Contacts. GMail (and Google+ proper) has always allowed for you to import all of your Yahoo! Mail contacts. This seems like more of a hassle than it actually is. See, I’m guessing that you have an old Yahoo! Mail account laying around—most of us used that service at one point in the past.
Simply head over to the Yahoo! Contacts and select to connect your account to Facebook and import those contacts.
The Google half is just a smidge little more iffy. You have to go to “Mail Settings” and then “Accounts and import.” Select to import the contacts from your now-merged Yahoo-Facebook address book.
Alternatively, you could get to that same dialogue from the “Circles” tab on G+.
I guess it’s official now. That is, in fact, the outline of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s penis. Ends up it wasn’t just posted on Twitter. It was also attached to an email intended for a young lady with the file-name “ready.jpg”. There were also a few shirtless pictures too. A democrat has officially admitted to an internet sex scandal.
This isn’t all that new. What is new is that this guy isn’t resigning in shame. I tend to mark that one up to the fact that Democracts don’t try as hard as those in the GOP to come across as wholesome families.
Sending pictures of yourself to a girl over twitter is definitely not as bad as getting blown in your office from an intern, right? I mean, at least he didn’t send those photos to a guy—he would have surely been forced to resigned then.
The thing about this that I find more interesting is that the congressman is basically a middle school-aged child here. First, he gets caught sexting a girl because he is seemingly unable to determine what interaction on Twitter is public vs. private. He then uses the 21st century equivalent of the “my dog ate my homework” excuse: “I was hacked.”
“Gee, I would have loved to of sent you that paper last night Mr. Feeny—but, my computer got this horrible virus.”
Well, I certainly hope this is a learning experience for him. After all, we must now live with the take-away that the horrible worst-case-scenario of theory being pushed by the press was true. Those guys won’t be living anyone alone any time soon.
- Anthony Weiner Admits to Sending Crotch Shot [Video] (gawker.com)
- Website says Weiner sent shirtless photo to woman (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
