Google+

What is this about?

Is this supposed to be the new Facebook? If so, I’m so very confused. I don’t remember having this much trouble trying to learn Facebook, or even MySpace. They both seemed easily adaptable at the time. This seems to have a little different edge, so not quite the same ease of adaptability can be expected.

I don’t get the “Circles”. I think the idea of it is so that you only share information you post on your wall with certain “circles” of people (i.e. friends, family, coworkers), but it’s an extra step I find annoying. If I’m going to throw up a status message or a picture real quick, the last thing I want to do is scroll through a bunch of names and have to pick the one I want. If I’m not in a hurry, no big deal. I guess.

And, I only have three friends right now. And they don’t even hardly write on there. So it’s not like I have a heavy traffic flow right now to watch. No practice means I don’t learn the program.

And I don’t have an App for it. Neither my iThingy or my Droid has an App. This makes it not so easy to watch. I can’t sit with a webpage open all day (okay, okay. I can. But that’s not the point.) If it’s going to succeed, it needs a little bit more.

All that being said, I truly believe that Google will get their s**t together and make an amazing thing out of this. Google will take over the world one day. I’d like to go tell Zuckerberg to suck it, but he’s provided me with countless laughs and endless memories, so I just can’t do it.

If anyone knows any secrets about Google+ they’d like to share, I welcome them. Or even just some simple “how to” basics they’d like to provide me with, I’d gladly listen. I just don’t seem to get it. I hope I’m not alone.

P.S. Go Kyle Busch!

Oops! I didn’t know I wasn’t allowed to disagree.

Every few months, I go through my Facebook friends list and delete a few people. I don’t do it because I don’t want to have anything to do with them. I do it because I want to save our relationship. I do it because I have no need to see the pictures of you standing in a bathroom mirror. I do it because I don’t want to continually hear you complain about how much your life sucks because your girlfriend/love of your life broke up with you after only three weeks. I do it because I don’t want to feel censored on my own page for fear of hurting your feelings.

Apparently, I have recently caused an uproar in the Facebook community that I reside. There’s this thing going around where everyone is changing their profile pictures to cartoons for child abuse. If you don’t know about it, it’s because you aren’t an active member of Facebook. No worries. You really haven’t missed anything. I don’t care what your reasoning’s are for changing your profile picture to a cartoon for this, but don’t complain because I refuse to do it. I’ve even heard seen people post replies saying, “…sometimes some opinions are better kept silent!”. Why? Because I have a different opinion than you? Really people? Really? My reasoning’s for refusing to change my picture don’t have anything to do with my belief in child abuse. Don’t pretend that I’ve said it does, because it simply doesn’t. By all means, you are free to post the lengthy blurb about how changing it will make a difference. I didn’t comment on it in disagreement, so why would you so rudely do that to me? Then, I read this…

Cartoons infiltrate Facebook, anti-child abuse message spills over

This was indicated in one of the participants' post on Facebook, which said, "so, i take it everyone who has taken the time to change their profile picture has also written their Congressmen demanding that the United States signs the U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child? because, surely, that would be more helpful than changing our profile pictures."

Facebook has this cool feature that allows you to hide people’s comments, but if I feel like I need to be careful of what I say so to not hurt your feelings, I’m not going to hide you. I’m going to delete you.

Do not take offense. Just know that I’m trying to save our relationship. And the less drama Facebook brings to my life, the better off I am.

Annoyed with…

• the wrappers on fast food straws that should just come off in one tear. but they don’t. at least not for me. maybe it’s the tremors I have that cause my hands to not function properly when it comes to opening straw wrappers. hmm. something to ponder for another post.
• people leaving their gas tank lid open. really people? how hard is it to remember to close the damn lid AFTER YOU PUT THE CAP BACK ON THE TANK? hmm. rocket science?
• the x won’t allow divorce to be finalized. grr.
• commercials right at the bestpartoftheshow
• people that take facebook too seriously. just let people say what they want to say. if you don’t want to see it, don’t look. they made it easy to ‘delete’ someone or even go so far as to ‘block’ someone. nike says it best – just.do.it.
• the leachy media. go. away.