{"id":362,"date":"2007-09-05T02:35:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2007-09-05T02:35:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T18:35:36","slug":"social-networking-application-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Social Networking application addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found my new crack, at least until I get home and go into Internet-rehab as I always do.<br \/>\nSocial networking websites (specifically myspace and facebook) which I have talked about before on here have somewhat enveloped a large portion of my web time of late. Every few hours, nay! minutes! I check to see if some long lost friend or relative has found me, spending hours, racking my brain to see if I can remember the name of the kid who I beat up in primary school.<\/p>\n<p>My steady descent into the social networking circle started with Myspace. I was initially against the idea, having seen some garishly designed myspace profiles, and after all, why do I need another presence on the Internet when I already have a blog?<br \/>\nEventually curiosity got the best of me and now I too have a garish profile and a multitude of friends. For a while all was good \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Then I read articles on facebook, along the lines of &#8220;MySpace is for the masses and facebook is for the more educated&#8221;, I felt infuriated that someone would deem themselves more elitist. After all, facebook has none of the music and wacky backgrounds that I had eventually succumbed to in myspace. The gf assured me it was better, however I was almost scared of the &#8220;how do you know these people&#8221; section &#8211; Im not sure I want to remember how I met most people &#8211; &#8220;This is Jack, he knows Tom from Prison, they had a whirlwind romance however Jack remains in Prision and get&#8217;s parole this year&#8221;. That&#8217;s right dear readers, amongst Jack I am sure there are plenty more skeletons (and zombies, everyone loves zombies) locked away in my closet that I didn&#8217;t want to come out in the light of day (or if they did, I was hoping for melanoma and a quick death). <\/p>\n<p>So yep, yet again, curiosity got the best of me and now here I am&#8230; a blog, 2 profiles and god knows how many other web presences on the web&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/images\/facebook1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Questions of the day:<br \/>\n1.) How many web presences do you have? Admit it, you&#8217;ve had to google yourself to remind yourself of all the stuff you no longer use.. remember that ICQ account? \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n2.) Why the hell do spell checkers insist that internet is a proper noun? <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.. Tuesday.. picture.. right.. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/insanetom.com\/images\/suffering.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Title: Suffering<br \/>\nArtist: Myself<br \/>\nCamera\/Film: Zenit, 400ISO<br \/>\n(I took this waaaaay back &#8211; should get around to taking some new shots one of these days.. when I get time *sigh*). I was very much a bogan, not an emo.. thanks.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found my new crack, at least until I get home and go into Internet-rehab as I always do. Social networking websites (specifically myspace and facebook) which I have talked about before on here have somewhat enveloped a large portion of my web time of late. 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