I’ve had colleagues, friends and family call me a social media guru, ninja, expert, etc. In fact, I’ve had a post/rant in draft form for months and was inspired by today’s Dilbert comic to finally move it from draft to publish.
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For a short period of time last night, a number of my Facebook friends thought my account had been hacked.
I was tagged in some pornographic photos that were major violations of Facebook’s Terms of Service.
What had actually happened was that a friend’s Facebook account was hacked and the hacking involved changing her profile picture and then posting photos on her wall and randomly tagging friends (which in turn, caused the photos to come up on my wall and also the friend feed of anyone who follows me). I didn’t get home last night until 9:50, so I’m lucky it didn’t happen earlier in the evening.
It’s that time of year again. As I mentioned in my last update, you should be feeling guilty about what wasn’t accomplished in the previous year. But with the first week of January well underway, there’s an opportunity for new beginnings. Fresh starts! Expect that January is simply a month that ends in Y… does it really have to be the only time of year to set goals, ridicule our failures and set unreasonable expectations?!
So in proper hypocritical fashion, I’ve decided to give myself a few goals (read: resolutions… I just don’t want to call them resolutions). Goals can be measurable and there will be clear evidence as to whether or not I meet these goals.
As usual, another comic full of win from Dilbert. This is from Tuesday July 12, 2011.
I’ll confess that I’m not a daily Dilbert devotee (like that alliteration?), but I do visit the site every few weeks and take a few minutes to catch up.
When someone asks about my usage of social media tools, I often receive comments like “Well I’m too busy to waste so much time on stuff like that.” And I have to be honest, it’s getting increasingly annoying. I don’t have time to natter on about your favourite reality TV show (nor to I bother wasting hours watching it), but I’m not getting snarky at you. Sorry, but I’m not interested in the latest cutie that was unfairly was voted off this week.
Despite what you may think, I’m not playing around on Facebook or Twitter (or Google+) all day. When I share something to one of these social media platforms, it’s while I’m researching or getting up-to-date on current events. If I see something interesting, I’ll hit a button on that website that will allow me to post a link to one of my social media pages.
Ironically, it probably takes you longer to read my post, click on the link and then evaluate whether or not you want to take in all of the information on that page. So maybe I’m not the one wasting more time…
If you didn’t hear, there was an really brilliant contest held on Facebook for 48 hours involving Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism and WestJet.
Image screen captured from their Facebook Group
It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm both on the NL Tourism Facebook page as well as the excited posts I saw in my news feed of friends and family both local and abroad vying to win. Continue reading