Here’s a fun way of creating a bit different status messages – just to spice it up a bit and create confusion or maybe discussion. I found it via a friend on facebook.
RULES:
1. Grab the book closest to you. Now.
2. Go to page 56.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Write that sentence as your status.
The original instructions contains two more steps but that’s not applicable for all social sites and feels a bit unnecessary to me as long as everybody know the rules. Here they are anyway:
5. Copy these instructions as a comment to your status.
6. Don’t go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have – just grab the closest one
Here’s an example from my closest book, the one that I’m currently reading – “Den siste tempelriddaren” in swedish or in english “The last templar” by Raymond Khoury:
| “Naturligtvis ska vi undersöka det.”
or in english
“Of course we will investigate it.” |
Completely meaningless, which suits the swedish kind of humour very well.
I guess it is applicable for all kinds of social applications like Twitter, facebook, LinkedIn etc.
I think I’ll start doing this from now on from time to time but maybe it has to be extended some way for us computer geeks to also involve electronic books, internet sites, blogs, or white papers.
So I’ll update my Twitter with it right away. Probably no one will notice,
Ok, I admit it. I am boooored…
Well, what do you think?
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Barack Obama (the president candidate of the democrates of US) has with some help of Chris Hughes (one of the founders) built his own social network called . Besides of this Mr. Obama is registered on nearly every social network and web 2.0 site that is something today. I follow him on by the way, but the content could be more interesting. However, this shows on a (political) person that is not only present in the “here and now” but also someone who wants to meet and talk to his supporters (and non-supporters) on their terms.
A social network is a very good way of making people with common interests to interact with each other in a structured way. This is an opinion that Mr. David HasselHoff (Baywatch Mitch) also shares. David HasselHoff (or “The Hoff”) has recently started his own social network called . Seems like a nice solution when looking at it and appearantely it has drawn quite a few users to it as well. This idea however sounds less serious and more narcissistic to me although the basic idea and concept probabaly is the same..
See what David writes on the first page.
| “In my travels round the world I have always been surprised that no matter where I go people recognize and know me, from Europe, Australia and India to the Philippines and the Zulu Nation in South Africa. This got me thinking… I realized that while two people from two entirely different countries and backgrounds may seem to have nothing in common, the only thing they might have in common is me… So I decided to start a network where people from across the world might come together and get a conversation started over me. Where it will lead, I don’t know but the world would be a better place if everyone talked a little more to each other…” |
Makes me wonder partly of Mr. HasselHoff’s ego but also of the lives that the already 14363 registered people have. Where do they live and what do they do since they still believe that a big part of their lives are about discussing an actor in Knight rider and Baywatch? Scary!
These two sites are built on the same idea and similar functionality but still are so different and can almost not be compared dispite that they both are social networks. One is serious with a higher purpose and scope of use (short-term speaking) and the other is… not! Still it does fill a need somewhere and David is right when he says that the world would be better if everyone talked a little more to each other. Therefore I wish Barack and “The Hoff” good luck – but neither of them can or won’t get my vote 
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