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ophelia_chong — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:34:29 -0000

I don't like getting Poked.

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fawn*land — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:40:45 -0000

PAIN?!? It's all about the "APPS" now..., just when I thought Facebook and MySpace couldn't get any MORE annoying...

if I ever meet Tom...

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:00:32 -0000

True. It's dressing up the same cow with different outfits, but you are getting the same milk.

As you break down the "differences" between sites, you further dilute the message and decrease the size of your audience.

ie:
plain milk - lots of people
chocolate milk - kids and some adults
strawberry milk - weird kids and some weird adults
mocha choco milk - buying group getting smaller
strawberry choco frappe milk - minimal

and so on.

:O) thanks for commenting!

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ophelia_chong — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:56:01 -0000

On web 2.0 it's all about numbers, so just like the JFK/ Nixon election, dead people count too. If it was possible for some websites to have the dead click away, they would be gazillionaires.

And that classic line from Groucho Marx "I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER".

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wilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:34:04 -0000

Talking about the invites, I'm the types of person that getting rejected more than I can remember than anyone else...lol

Thus, I have an awful feeling about the "You Are Invited" sentence...

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MaggyYoung — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:47:21 -0000

HI Ophelia, I especially loved that final para. Your post reeks of boredom & stalenes with (a lot) of the whole internet thing. Sure there are loads of worthy sites out there, but with the excitement of web 2.0 we've overdone it. And most new sites are clones with minor variations. Fact is that we have elevated all this way out of its true importance - so there's some cool new site out every other week - what difference to anything does it really make ?
Just a super highway of ultimately mind numbing new sites & their discarded predecessors.

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Emily Wong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:34:32 -0000

The interns like to tease me. What, no myspace OR facebook?! You only twitter? And Ophelia, if it weren't for your twitter invite, I wouldn't even have that. So thank you for the invite. ~___^

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ophelia_chong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:24:12 -0000

"Invites" goes back to the elementary school days of "How Many Valentines Did You Get?"
It's not about quality or if its useful, but about quantity.

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ophelia_chong — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:21:26 -0000

ewww...talking...voices....since i am a certified hermit, i only use the phone when i need the plumber to unclog my moat. he only has a phone.

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sbspalding — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:15:52 -0000

You're lucky, though I am starting to only accept invitations to things I think I might actually use more than once.

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sbspalding — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:14:46 -0000

You still use "the phone?"

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David — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:45:43 -0000

The only real invite only site that I'm still using is Gmail. Nothing else is quite as useful.

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ophelia_chong — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:20:32 -0000

ummm....that's so last year. don't even ask for a postcard.

:O))

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John Stives — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:01:44 -0000

No!

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danhhoang — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:12:01 -0000

Yup! All placed online in google docs.... and I go back to it every time!

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RaePuttPutt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:26:39 -0000

LOL!

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ms. alynn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:08:51 -0000

It's all just too much!
can't someone just call me...?

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ophelia_chong — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:05:37 -0000

Hippies...

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RaePuttPutt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:15:30 -0000

And of course, tribe is down today.......

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RaePuttPutt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:14:48 -0000

A spreadsheet of your logins and stuff, really?!?!?!? Gosh! I'm impressed. Wow. I would not think to do that. I just get frustrated and have them resend everything when I forget.

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RaePuttPutt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:35 -0000

Bwahahahaha! Oh, no!

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ophelia_chong — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:05:02 -0000

You have to lay borders down after a while. I actually have to go back into my Digg and click off some people who love to email me about 15 times a day to Digg something. I will Digg, but after a while, it's really just not worth my time.
:O)) and now i will have to look at tribe.....

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ophelia_chong — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:03:17 -0000

Ha! if there was a physical dump of all the SN sites, it would be huge.
Although I am grateful for the ones I use daily, because I have met the most amazing people, that I would not have if I didn't use those "invites".
:O)

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RaePuttPutt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:32:36 -0000

Ah yes -- the endless appeal of leaving our cyber dna behind somewhere.....don't forget that first day you try to type in all the variations of your friends (past and present) names to see if anyone else you know is there.

I basically camp on tribe because I'm tired of teens and twenty somethings and tribe is more intelligent (well - I find tribers to be more intelligent, articulate, and interactive) and age appropriate for me. But I also have MySpace, LiveJournal, Blogger, my blog, oh, and my alma mater just set up a social networking site that's ugly but intriguing, then there's Facebook, which is way too intrusive. ACK!

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danhhoang — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:07:22 -0000

Haha! I sign up for stuff all the time. I have a spreadsheet with over 100 logins and I barely use 2% of the sites on a daily basis. And as of right now, anybody have any invites?