my facebook... one

I just got hooked into this facebook hoopla... I used to keep a friendster account, but lately they have been having connection problems and outages that somehow made their site inaccessible. It started when my wife created a facebook account after her friend's proding and that "It" being a more "sosyal" (loosely means, high class in Filipino) networking site.

I have heard and read a lot about facebook but never rode the band wagon till now, it turned to be something much cooler than I thought. It has a whole lot of things to keep your network interested and hooked. It also able to keep track of the updates within your network too; or so I at least think so, with all the updates posted on "the Wall"... What I find "kewl" about this is that, I am able to mesh together my other web thingy's i.e. pictures at picasa, blogs from blogger, micro-blogs from twitter (which I have been able to integrate as facebook updates)... so all in all, I am able to keep these different items and view them from my facebook.

As now, I have been able to integrate:

-pictures from picasaweb 

-blogs posting from blogger 

-tweets from twitter 

Integrating pictures from picasa was simple enough since there is this "Application" called [xxxx] that grabs the images from picasa and shows them in facebook. All I need to do was add the application into my facebook, then login my picasa account; then.. there you go, you got all the pictures that you have posted in picasa shown on your facebook.

The same goes for the blogs. I know I can write blogs on facebook but my blogger account came in first & I kinda liked the way my blogs are set up at blogger as they are now, so I'm keeping 'em that way. So it follows the same process, added an application [xxx] to read blogs from blogger; then configured my blogger account, then there I go... my blogger account can not be seen on facebook. the cool thing is I can also select which post can be seen on facebook whilst, at blogger... it shows all.

Then I got this Twitter... this is way kewl... Twitter has been gaining a lot of steam lately and I also got into it. Not because of wanting to have a Twitter but out of neccesity. Twitter is something the is what they call "Micro-blogging": "Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

"Tweeting" has come handy to me since I am not able to write lengthy blogs, due to time constraints... I know, I know... it's a lame excuse, but it's the truth. As much as I would love to be able to write (an illusion, that I can be a writer!!!!), the truth is, time just illudes me. Sigh... TIME has become a luxury to me these days (it's another story...) Anyways, with Twitter; I am able to Tweet every once in a while. So, I am tweeting from time to time so-to-speak. The flip side of this is that, no one knows that I am tweeting so this is another challenge. (it's another story :-) )