I like the internet. Fact is, I've been on the internet since October, 1994. Though I was slow to embrace myspace when it came along, I have missed little else on this world wide web.
With myspace, it was a unique opportunity to reach out to people that you would most probably, never meet. It was also an opportunity to belong to a group where you could meet your actual friends online to exchange music and photos. Cool stuff.
Facebook (FB) nailed it. Way faster than myspace, way easier to use, connects to everything on the web that matters, and you could interact real time. Practically everybody (high % anyway) in the world that uses the internet is on FB. Revolutions against governments have been started on FB.
However, FB became a business that wanted to turn a profit. That's fair enough for anyone with a great idea. Sometime in the Spring of 2012, FB sent me the first offer to promote my posts for either $5, for viewing available for up to 1500 friends, or $10 to make the post available for up to 2400 friends. This was per post, ordinary posts, and didn't address the additional friends that I had.
I wrote them a semi-joking email telling them that I don't run a business on FB (true), and that if they want to charge me, just shoot me a monthly low tier rate. Within no time, and without a response, FB began to block my ability to request friends, send messages, or even see more than four of my own posts on a page at a time, having to click a button to open four additional posts. The various reasons listed were that I had requested a friend with somebody that I didn't know (WHAT?), and had been reported for spamming. This block was in affect for six months (with 2-3 days off here and there) until just last week.
Facebook is fun. I enjoy it tremendously due to ease of use, and the uncanny amount of old friends that have turned up in my life again. If only 15% of my FB friends can see my posts (read that in the WSJ), I figured that I might as well try a blog. I personally know, or am at the least acquainted with, a high percentage of my FB friends. Many of the others are spouses, cousins, brothers, sisters and friends of the people that I do know personally. I like the ease of posting to FB straight from the various friends or news sources that I usually read every day, so I'll have to learn how to bring all of that to this page.
I truly enjoy food, music, dance, theater, fashion, things that explode, architecture, adventure travel, every form of transport and of course, exciting women. All of that and more, will show up on this page. I'll try to make it interesting. I'll try to make it fun.
GP
With myspace, it was a unique opportunity to reach out to people that you would most probably, never meet. It was also an opportunity to belong to a group where you could meet your actual friends online to exchange music and photos. Cool stuff.
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However, FB became a business that wanted to turn a profit. That's fair enough for anyone with a great idea. Sometime in the Spring of 2012, FB sent me the first offer to promote my posts for either $5, for viewing available for up to 1500 friends, or $10 to make the post available for up to 2400 friends. This was per post, ordinary posts, and didn't address the additional friends that I had.
I wrote them a semi-joking email telling them that I don't run a business on FB (true), and that if they want to charge me, just shoot me a monthly low tier rate. Within no time, and without a response, FB began to block my ability to request friends, send messages, or even see more than four of my own posts on a page at a time, having to click a button to open four additional posts. The various reasons listed were that I had requested a friend with somebody that I didn't know (WHAT?), and had been reported for spamming. This block was in affect for six months (with 2-3 days off here and there) until just last week.
Facebook is fun. I enjoy it tremendously due to ease of use, and the uncanny amount of old friends that have turned up in my life again. If only 15% of my FB friends can see my posts (read that in the WSJ), I figured that I might as well try a blog. I personally know, or am at the least acquainted with, a high percentage of my FB friends. Many of the others are spouses, cousins, brothers, sisters and friends of the people that I do know personally. I like the ease of posting to FB straight from the various friends or news sources that I usually read every day, so I'll have to learn how to bring all of that to this page.
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With Jerome Cohen and Mimi, Champs-Elysées, ParisAll of my life, I've been an obsessive reader and I've never had the desire to stay put in one place. I look for the unusual news, and when I find it, I will post here. There's a lot of places that I plan to visit, and when I do, those adventures will appear on here as well. |
I truly enjoy food, music, dance, theater, fashion, things that explode, architecture, adventure travel, every form of transport and of course, exciting women. All of that and more, will show up on this page. I'll try to make it interesting. I'll try to make it fun.
GP
8 comments:
Fantastic, Real, Fun, information!!!
very cool site....
Thank you!!!
lauraz
Thank you lauraz. Keep watching. More fascinating pointlessness to come!
Good luck in this world ;o))
We all know that it's only a matter of time until FB goes the way of Myspace, Yahoo, and all their little friends in the internet cemetary. But you won't go down with the ship, so you start your own Facebook disguised as an innocent blog, but one that you can actually control. Keep on keepin' on and spreading the Wisdom! And on your first post you put a picture of us with Mimi! :) I feel famous already!
All hail Pikkiwoki!
Welcome to the world of blogging! Unfortunately, Facebook has taken away a lot of the mojo from blogs over the past several years, so the commenting and community aspect has suffered. Still, it's nice to have a home base for your social media presence. Have fun with it!
Thank you. FB has taken away a lot of MY mojo. So this is my attempt to reclaim it.
Thank you. We all need it!
When myspace was just getting to be fun, it fell apart and became difficult to use. That's where I see facebook now. It started out as a lot of fun, then became difficult (for me, anyway) to use. When it dies, I'll piss on it's grave.
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