Damn you, Zuckerberg!! You have officially turned me into a social networking-Zombie. What started off as a harmless exercise in "riding the wave of popularity", has now become the second most important website of the day (a close second to the email-Zombie - GMAIL). I had sworn off Social Networking after the Orkut** wave had crashed but the disease has spread way too much in my psyche now and to come out of the phenomenon might just have disastrous and unintended consequences. But guess what, I LOVE IT!! As reprehensible as it may sound, I actually look forward to getting news from folks in my Friends and "fake"-Friends list. And quite a few of them are "fake"-Friends, really.
{**Google folks don't give up, do they - they clearly lead the "If you cannot beat them, BUY them" Bandwagon, case in point - YouTube, Blogger etc. Heck, they would have purchased Facebook too, if they had been allowed.}
More so, I hate to admit it but I need to advertise my beloved blog on Facebook to get more hits and Likes. A "Like" on FB is more common than a hit on my blog. K also pitches in by "sharing" my blog link on her profile so that her Friends can pitch in on the hit count. God bless her soul.
For now, I am immune to the games that are/were advertised on your site (Mafia Wars, Farmville etc. albeit these are older games and I sure hated those Friends/"fake"-Friends that "invited" me to be part of their Farm Community and what not) and I am fairly certain, I will not get zucked to becoming a gaming-Zombie. K on the other hand is hooked onto video games and even she has not had the inclination to play those Zynga games. You tie up with Rovio and put Angry Birds on your site, and I will have to call the doctors to get her "maansik-stithi" checked. She is absolutely a zucker for Angry Birds!!
It took me a while to come out of the Apple-phobe mentality as I had to relent last Thanksgiving into getting an iPod (sorry, iPhone, you are still not welcome). That shall remain the only Apple product in the unwanted-gadget pile. But, I got to admit, I use the iPod (whenever iCan) to check my status on Facebook (and Twitter and LinkedIn and Fantasy Football).
I am admittedly a Facebook junkie now, "Like" it or not and until something else trumps this madness, you will call me "The social networking-Zombie".
"Like" it or leave it.
{**Google folks don't give up, do they - they clearly lead the "If you cannot beat them, BUY them" Bandwagon, case in point - YouTube, Blogger etc. Heck, they would have purchased Facebook too, if they had been allowed.}
More so, I hate to admit it but I need to advertise my beloved blog on Facebook to get more hits and Likes. A "Like" on FB is more common than a hit on my blog. K also pitches in by "sharing" my blog link on her profile so that her Friends can pitch in on the hit count. God bless her soul.
For now, I am immune to the games that are/were advertised on your site (Mafia Wars, Farmville etc. albeit these are older games and I sure hated those Friends/"fake"-Friends that "invited" me to be part of their Farm Community and what not) and I am fairly certain, I will not get zucked to becoming a gaming-Zombie. K on the other hand is hooked onto video games and even she has not had the inclination to play those Zynga games. You tie up with Rovio and put Angry Birds on your site, and I will have to call the doctors to get her "maansik-stithi" checked. She is absolutely a zucker for Angry Birds!!
It took me a while to come out of the Apple-phobe mentality as I had to relent last Thanksgiving into getting an iPod (sorry, iPhone, you are still not welcome). That shall remain the only Apple product in the unwanted-gadget pile. But, I got to admit, I use the iPod (whenever iCan) to check my status on Facebook (and Twitter and LinkedIn and Fantasy Football).
I am admittedly a Facebook junkie now, "Like" it or not and until something else trumps this madness, you will call me "The social networking-Zombie".
"Like" it or leave it.
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