Tag Archives: internet

Facebook etiquette

A few guidelines about Facebook etiquette:

  1. If I don't know you, I won't add you.
  2. Even if I know you, if I don't know you well enough I might not add you.
  3. I don't want my Facebook profile look like the worst MySpace nightmare, so I won't accept invitations to become a zombie or to get a stripper name.
  4. If you're a friend I know through work, I'll add you if we're actually friends offline (or good friends online).  For professional relationships please use LinkedIn instead.  Adding me because you met me once is a no-no, unless we actually got along pretty well.
  5. Use common sense with what you put there.

Ok, there it is now, I've been trying to post this for a while.

Sports tracker

I went skating yesterday. Not any kind of skating, but one special modality called nordic blading, which is done with poles as if you were skiing. I am now the proud owner of an N95 and was using the Sports Tracker application, which is able to calculate the kind of route I took, how many kilometres I did and my speed and altitude. You can even export your workouts to Google Earth! Quite a nice thing, I should say.

 

P.S. For those interested, I skated 15.4 km at an average speed of 10 km/h and a maximum speed of 49 km/h.

MySpace is working class, Facebook upper-middle class?

Interesting article about how American class divisions are reflected in the usage patterns of Facebook and MySpace.  I still found it very interesting, as it is true that the way we use our tools reflect our societies..

Some traditional media (here, here) have picked up the story, but I'd rather read the whole essay, as I don't like the spin they put to it.

Via Slashdot.