As a follow up to my earlier post which asked and answer the question What is Spokeo?, I thought I would have a deeper play around with the system and try to find out what it found about myself online that perhaps I needn’t make public. Before going into detail, I just want to qualify myself a little. I am a computing professional and have been for a number of years. As such I am always a little skeptical when it comes to using IT. I know that systems fail, they get hacked, and unscrupulous people can use systems and…
Lets say you’re a very social person who has a lot of friends on a lot of networks. How full is your maibox with notifications of their latest shenanigans? Do you log into 14 different websites to keep track of all your family in different parts of the world? Well, you may be interested in Spokeo. What is Spokeo? I first heard about this evening when visiting a site by another blogger who I don’t think is an Arsenal Fan. Nonetheless he is a lovely person and you should visit his site. Anyway back to the subject of this post…
Twitter is a brilliant source of traffic for your blog. It is a micro-blogging site where users answer the simply question “What are you doing now?” using 140 or less characters. As with most social networking communities, the way to benefit from a service like this is to interect with other Twitter users by “following” them.By following someone, you get to see their status updates on your twitter home page.
[tag]BlogCatalog[/tag] the lively [tag]social networking[/tag] community for bloggers has lanched a community fundraising event which aims to raise funds, via [tag]DonorsChoose.org[/tag], for public schools in the United States. DonorsChoose provides a simple way of connecting students with donors. Teachers submit ideas for projects or materials needed by the students at their school, and visitors to the site can choose the project to which they wish to donate funds.
I work a 9-5 but it keeps me from what I would like to be my real work. My ‘real’ work, i.e. the 9-5, pays for my lifestyle, hobbies and of course the bills. However my real work involves everything related to the social side of life. I’m not being flippant when referring to the social side of life, I don’t only mean partying and meeting friends, but the study and research into our [tag]social life[/tag], that is all the connections we make with other people around us.
