If life really were like Facebook...

This video predates the recalibration of FB to resemble Twitter, which happened about a year ago. The point still holds.

Facebook Purge: Day 2

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

I've begun searching for additional perspectives on quitting facebook. Here we learn about "Facebook Suicide" and the author's reasons for undertaking it. I quite agree with most of her analysis, although the cynic in me wonders if we've always secretly been narcissistic, and that FB hasn't just given us a convenient and public outlet.

I'm still working on establishing a convenient way of doing all that Facebook does without actually using it. If nothing else, Facebook is an easily accessed, centralized clearinghouse of all the information I see fit to share, and a place where I can find interesting stuff, too. Ideally, I will be able to link a newsfeed (Twitter) to some wall-posts (Blogger) to a collection of photo albums (Picasa) to an OpenID profile (Google and Gmail) to the website that I will soon create. All that's left is a way to get a digest of interesting articles my friends dig up. My friends are always posting news stories about politics and languages on FB, and I enjoy seeing those.

In other news, my car is in the shop getting a new timing belt. How do people usually manage day-long car repairs? Was someone supposed to come get me, or was I supposed to sit in the office all day? I took the bus part-way home and then had to walk mile, because the bus system here does not take transfers and I didn't have $6.00 for a day pass. A one way fare is $2.50 and you don't get a transfer?! This repair sets me back $600, but it's better than letting my timing belt snap, and I certainly was due for it. There goes half my tax refund! Good thing I got one!

Peace

Australia Photo Album

In the continuing quest to avoid FB, here is my first attempt at a photo album and the announcement thereof. It's my trip to Australia last September! Woohoo!

In the Land of Oz

Twitter

I created a Twitter account, although it's not as useful as it could be considering I don't use my phone to get updates. However, perhaps I'll be able to figure out how to get blog posts to show up in my feed. At any rate, I wanted to claim my username, because it rocks. You can follow me @QueenThumbs. Yay!

First Post

First post!

I'm here attempting to divorce myself from facebook nightmares. After being forced to either make all my interests public and have updates from things like "Amelie" appear on my newsfeed, or have no profile information at all, I chose the latter. After reading this article, I am convinced that inertia is not enough to keep me using facebook. Through some quick research I discovered that I can use Google and blogger to accomplish all of the same things. It's been sheer laziness preventing me from leaving until now. And, honestly, I think I'll have more fun and more control over the identity I present here. Facebook has long been an alternative to a blog for me, and it's time I just went whole hog.

Join me!

Shalom.