Facebook V. 310

I joined Facebook nearly seven years ago, making me old in technological terms.  (Yes, my college actually had to be approved for Facebook.  If you remember this then you are also old.)  Since that time, Facebook has undergone more facelifts than Heidi Montag, William Shatner, and Burt Reynolds combined to the eighth power.  It happens.  Now I have a Facebook feed for my Facebook feed?  Whatever.

I actually learned about the Facebook revamp from Twitter.  #SocialMediaOverload

 

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Daddy's Girl

I was talking to a friend the other day about our favorite Super Bowl commercials in the last few years and immediately thought of the Google commercial, "Parisian Love." Throughout all the commotion of the game, I was overwhelmed by the subtle romance held in the patient construction of words with a light musical overlay. Today I searched for the commercial and came across Google Search Stories, a hub for users to generate their own stories.  These serve as small reminders of how technology improves our lives and changes our relationships with others. I stumbled across this little gem and dedicate to my papa, who is holed up in an airport hotel in St. Louis braving out the snowpocalypse.  Although we didn't have gchat and laptop cameras, when I was a tot brushing my teeth in Little Mermaid PJs, this video still takes me back.

Love you Dad!



"I've watched this video like 3 times, then I wrote about it.  That's what I do with things that I don't want to disappear." Thanks Ryan for calling this one out!

"If Facebook were a county, it would be world's fourth largest"

A small portion of my day has been researching the "digital space" for tiny tidbits of information that could (ahem, should) be appreciated across clients.  I found these and wanted to share.

This is a word cloud, filtering out reoccurring words from Wikipedia's article on social media.  Thank you Wordle for making Wikipedia even more dummy proof.

Then here is this winner with its warm up music, which makes me want to present to a conference room full of head scratching marketing directors. In a pair of breakaway pants.

I admit that some of these terms and buzz words are overused, underdeveloped and totally boring.  Whatever it is, it's real.  Social media should not be a challenge, but an appreciated asset that compliments existing plans.

"Social media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate"

"Droid."

Last week my life changed with the arrival of my first Smartphone, a DroidX.  The touch screen, the 8.0 MP camera, the useless apps.  Swoon.  After a couple years of being behind the curve I am now beyond it, at least for a month until something new arrives.  Of course, once I went to make a phone call I was completely stumped.

My grandparents had a rotary phone.  It was tan, nailed on the wall by their bedroom and the noises it made were so distinct that I could pinpoint them to this day.  It took approximately 38 seconds to make a phone call, 54 for long-distance with adjunct area code.  In fifty four seconds I could probably search for the stupid app called "Zombie, Run!" that uses your GPS location to place fake zombies in your otherwise safe walk home.  I'm not saying that I would throw the defenseless Droid in the Chicago River and snatch up a rotary, but I believe there is a happy balance between these two scenarios.

I am still waiting for my life to really change.  True, I was able to check show times for "The Town," search for the next available bus, and check sports scores back-to-back while loving it the entire time.  However, I did receive a swift punch in the gut for yelling, "I can get an app for that!" one too many times.  Until the Droid turns into an umbrella (no umbrella app) or teaches a boy to hang up the FreakingTowelOhMyGodIt'sNotThatHard then I'll just keep living my life normally, with a little computer in my pocket.