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Facebook is following you

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Sure, this is old news but if you had concern about your privacy before, here’s even more reason to be concerned. With face books new “frictionless” sharing it follows you all over the web. Whether it’s by sharing what you love on Spotify or any article you read it’s going to be difficult for your activities to be completely hidden.

Unfortunately, logging off won’t matter because the activity on your browser from the last person who logged on will be aggregated making it not so difficult for them to figure out who is using a specific browser. Many of you know that this data isn’t very difficult to track. Even if you decided never to join Facebook it doesn’t matter, that data is also tracked. We still don’t know what Facebook does with this data unfortunately because there’s no transparency (you should be afraid).

My friends don’t need to know all the shows that I watch on hulu or which articles I’m into. Personally, I don’t like this — which is strange for me to say since I’m used to sharing almost anything. However, my choice to share was still my choice. Sure, you have to allow access to your account before Washington Post displays your activity without you knowing but what if you come across an article that you don’t really want people to know you read? For example, I have a few guilty pleasure shows that I enjoy. A few weeks ago I realized when I subscribed to a show on hulu  it appeared in my activity feed. I was concerned because I watch these shows on my own time, in my leisure in my apartment. I can browse to any of them and press play. When I subscribe to something, it might be a show which contents might not be for everyone on my friendslist. I didn’t recommend the show!

Also, what if I’m really into reading about Justin Bieber and Britney Spears — I feel like it would be embarrassing for some of my friends to know this. The ability to limit the sharing also isn’t intuitive (I didn’t notice my hulu activity shared until I looked at a comment). Also, even if I have restricted my sharing to just a few friends, those friends can share what I read to outer circles/groups that I have limited (uncool especially if you have concerns about your activities helping you gain employment).

Don’t go causing a ruckus now, but “All hail Facebook?” — it’s actually our fault. In 2008, Americans spent 2% of their time on Facebook. Today, it’s up to 16%. By 2015, it’s possible that this number could increase to 100%.

If you want privacy, just don’t do it will logged into facebook. I’ve actually started using it only on my iPad or cellphone.’

(By the way, now don’t think this is only Facebook, Twitter’s tweet button and Google’s +1 button does the same. )

While you’re here though, click the “like” button below. I want some of that percentage of activity that facebook gets :) .

Will blog in 2011! xoxo

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Last year I wrote about my resolutions (which I usually don’t do but I did 5 out of 8 — not bad). I don’t like writing resolutions because I actually start on them right away than wait. I want to think of them more as goals than ‘changing’ myself completely. The year prior, I did an end of the year wrap up reflecting the months, what happened and what I learned. Overall, this year I’ve grown so much and much of my priorities have changed. I’m actually quite happy about that. If the year passed and I learned nothing I wouldn’t have felt accomplished at all.

So much has happened: This year,  I left my first job out of school, I got a major salary change, I got let go, and I became a freelancer. I also started realizing how important my friends were. A couple years prior I appreciated my family more and I’m first to admit: I had some sort of Holden Caulfield days when I wasn’t very appreciative of what I had (I think that was normal for a teenager though).

Recently, life has been good and I can’t complain. I’m finally content. 2010 was challenging – yes… but having your mind finally expand due to biology and understanding situations better is quite invaluable. 2010 was just quite an odd year. I met some interesting people and learned from them. This helped me compile a list of goals.

These are my “resolutions”:

  1. Sleep more (they call it beauty rest for a reason right).
  2. Play more video games (jus’ sayin’)
  3. Eat healthier
  4. Build better friendships and improve on current good ones
  5. Focus.
  6. Donate more
  7. Travel more!
  8. Seek more “first” experiences…
  9. Write, write, write
  10. Date more normal guys (thanks dad — I didn’t want to make this a resolution but my dad told me that I dated weird guys… <3 him — I just had to add that!)

What are your resolutions?

I’d like to share what happened though! This year was an incredible year of firsts for me.

January
I started the year off by heading to the spa (first type I’ve been to like that) and attending church with Johanna who was visiting from Sweden. I wrote very few entries in January because I was focusing on certain goals. I also learned how to replace an iPod Touch Screen (a first).

I also tried Sahaja Yoga (another first) also with Johanna. I also started writing tutorials for cookbooks.adobe.com.

February
I enjoyed Valentines Day but I learned a very important lesson about myself and love. I also left my job (a first) to accept another. I joined Aviary, inc. It was my first experience at a Start-up company — which was the wrong fit but I wouldn’t find that out until later. I also decided to get a REAL smart phone, I removed my old phone (bye bye red).

March
In March, Pari Dukovic was able to do my “25th year photo” which came out amazing!

I got an interview with Dominican Source.

I also learned how to deal with an incredibly difficult client or prevent them.

I attended NYC Twestival as one of my first Twitter-related events. I also tried Netflix for the Wii and loved it.

Did some photo manipulations… and got addicted to the show Keith and the Girl.

April
On April Fool’s Day, I pretended to get married to my friend Marvin who has been an amazing friend since I’ve met him. I tested the iPad at my job at the Start-Up Company. I also decided to start that Design Lady NYC fan page to separate my life from my real facebook page. I also bought a relationship book that made me change my perspective on relationships but in it’s irony, the couple also broke up.

I decided to try something new — something where I tried to be nice daily.

MOMA had a Tim Burton exhibition and I was lucky to have attended:

I also got my very first real professional haircut:

May
I went to the first party from @db — a tweetup where I met @justcreative and @iamkhayyam.

I also lost my job on May 7th. I had so much to say but I was talked into not writing about what happened but I didn’t let that stopped me from telling my employers exactly what I thought it all came from. I learned a huge lesson during that experience. It also taught me an incredibly lesson about kindness of strangers, separation of races, beliefs etc. It was a very trying experience for me and it opened up my eyes about life in just a few days!

My friends helped me get through it…

I through of a list of endless opportunities…

However, I landed an amazing opportunity with an agency that I had interviewed with earlier in the year. I got the chance to work on the interface of all things, the Nook II.

I also realized the value of supporting other creative people.

Pacman was uploaded on my server since Google’s was only there for a couple days…

My friends became more important to me and I learned how to balance my checkbook much more efficiently.

June
I became more aware of the HTML 5 vs. Flash debate.

I got a litl.

I also tried Paintball for the first time:

Hung out with someone who randomly met me through twitter. I also decided to go home to the Virgin Islands.

July
In July, continuing the “firsts” I tried pole dancing classes. Which made me respect what the body can do — but  of course I’d never strip :) .

I saw Inception — the first screening that I’ve ever done and attended my first block party.

This month, I also tried being a vegetarian for one month and bootcamp training for the first time.

August
Went to my first burlesque show and got my first tattoo. I also dimissed a job that I definitely didn’t like after learning new things about freelancing such as, get to know what net 30 means and not everyone will want to pay you especially if you’re a freelancer.

I tried to reevaluate my life as a single girl. I went on my first hike.

I  valued the friendship of these two girls. I realize that there can be girls who aren’t bitchy and conniving. They are certainly the best of the best. Cole from Bama to Brooklyn and Patrice from Hell and Heartaches.

(photo by @newsychu)

I went to my first poetry reading.

Then, there was a start of my Graphic Novel Project.

September
My website jadersworld.com (my first domain) made 10 years old. I went to my first J’ouvert. I wrote about Attaining Happiness. I also went to my first Fashion Night Out event for some reason I always missed out on it. I also did the annual breast cancer race as usual.

My friend Joe got married — I haven’t been in a wedding in so long that I thought they were extinct — seriously.

I realize how important Klout was on Twitter when I got Lone Star Screening kit. I went to my second hiking trip. I became more aware of the influence of brands.

It became more apparent that health benefits will be difficult to attain as a freelancer.

October
I did my first Improv Everywhere assignment with the MP3 experiment. I alo saw the Social Network Movie which has been drawing a great deal of traffic to this site.

GAP changed it’s logo. I discovered Varsano’s Chocolate.

It became more apparently how much Google is needed in my life.

I attended the NYC Comic Con.

Catfish was a good movie and I went to the Adobe Max Conference again.

November
I made my Halloween costume this year:

iVoted in the Elections. I’m often fascinated by this because I’ve only been a citizen for a few years.

I realized that many people were deactivating their facebook accounts only to sign back on.

I interviewed my parents for the first time for a blog entry.

I also took part of the Great Football Giveaway.

I also went on my first Dessert Crawl and did my very first Android app.

December
I got my first Mac ever…

I realized more and more how awesome twitter is.

I received Google TV from the October Conference we went to.

I came to the conclusion that I really have nothing to complain about.

Learned how to make Butterlane Cupcakes went to the first Klout Party that I’ve been invited to ever and another great party from Damien (@db).

I also did my first Blog off entry and hope to do more very soon.

OH yah, and I realized that I gained alot of weight and this is the heaviest I’ve ever been in my ENTIRE life (I still look kinda’ hot though with curvessssssssss).

I also learned to be closer to my parents. They are incredible people and well, I feel lucky to be their daughter (*tear*).

Also, finished the year off with an Adsense Google Check. Now this blog finally pays for itself. Thanks everyone!

That was my year! If I forget anything it will be in a follow-up post I’m sure — like you care… Anyway, how did yours go?

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2011!

Jerlyn

Combating your facebook addiction

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Are you suffering from Facebook withdrawal?

Do you find yourself constantly checking updates?

From your phone, from your inbox, from your AIR feeds?
Do you feel an obligation to see what Jane Doe is doing?
Whether or not she is in a relationship with that same guy she was connected to on her profile a week before?
Whether or not she said something meaningful or her life is falling apart due to quarter life crisis?

Are you easily addicted to games from Zynga like farmville, Mafia Wars, Cafe world, etc?

Do you request invites from people just to get a Cow added to your farm?

Do you check the deactivate box just to log back in a few days later? The next day? A Couple Hours?

If you any of those sound like you, then this post is for you.

I decided to activate a browser plug in the other day because I realized that my facebook friends list was fluctuating. I wouldn’t have cared too much about it because I know that people delete each other constantly but for a very odd reason my friends list numbers would increase without me adding anyone new. I found that odd.

The plug in alerted me when someone deleted or hid their profile. This was sort of fun for me because I noticed who those people were. Also, some of them I hadn’t chatted with in awhile so it was nice to observe. When they reactivated, I sent them a message if I was logged into facebook at the time (the plug-in is quite stalkerish).

There was another alert when someone simply deletes you (instead of hiding — sorry I don’t have that screen shot).

So these are my thoughts:

If you’re deactivating your profile just to avoid facebook’s overwhelming amount of content only to log back in to reactivate… After you’ve “had it!” Then you obviously have a problem (sorry)… I use facebook to contact a great deal of people that I don’t have in my address book instead of programming your numbers or email addresses in my phone — or to remember names haha. Can you really blame me? However, since you are addicts…

Follow these steps to get you through if you’re overwhelm:

  1. Too many emails? Control what email you receive from facebook here.
  2. If you have privacy issues go here to change them in your settings.
  3. You can also control who sees what on your wall or photos here with Friends List.
  4. The most important thing is to control what emails you get! Avoid getting notified for EVERYTHING.

I’m sure I might have found facebook overwhelming if I didn’t work with online related services. Social is a big part of my industry so I have to be on. Even if I don’t want to check my messages, I have to use client’s like pages for research or design. So, I personally do not have a reason to be off.

Cheers hope it works for you :)

What's after facebook?

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Facebook is an advertisers’ wet dream . I doubt there will be anything like it for awhile.

photo from veer

Besides never being able to delete your profile ever: People readily give information about themselves such as their demographic (which we advertisers need), their likes and dislikes, movies they are into, products etc. I want to thank many of you for this because you, in fact, make my job a great deal easier. Not only that, I can search for you unless you restrict your privacy.

Everything else that has exploded after facebook (twitter, foursquare etc) has essentially found ways to work with facebook or included services like it. Even so, most of my time is spent there, not on twitter or foursquare, etc.

What will happen next?

There’s no other service like this site and the next big thing might be an offline service (surprise). Is there something to attract people who are anti-facebook (the service is so addictive that people who have deactivate their profiles sign back in to “check it out” again)? Can we create this obsession offline?

Interestingly enough, many people do not use mobile to the extent that we have adapted to social networking nor log into the site to take part of it. How do we reach those folks?

Those are some things to think about and as my friends attempt to create start-ups to become accidental billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg. I am sorry to crush your dreams but what are the chances of creating something using these open source apis to make billions or use as extensively as facebook. Mark cracked it and is milking it. We ought to think outside of the box.

Things that might work:
As traditional advertising goes, I believe it’s possible to attract focused demographics. Race; hobbies, location, job title, etc.

I am not saying there won’t be another social networking explosion. I just want to encourage others to do more than compete with facebook. Do something that you are passionate about without expecting billions. It can happen. I really do not need to have another social site to waste my time.

I’m very curious to hear your thoughts on this.

*Heads back to the incubator.*

Twitter's down and the world ends…

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It’s 1:21pm EST and I just checked… Twitter’s down.

However, what other activities did we do before twitter?

There’s many ways to keep in touch… besides facebook of course. Have you tried:

http://friendfeed.com or http://www.blellow.com or how about good almost old-fashion blogging?

Follow me on friendfeed.

Funny excerpt from someone's profile.

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I found this in my inbox by someone who wanted to share please comment here to let me know what you think?

Here is an excerpt from a list that a man wants women to be aware of. He definitely has a way with words…

1) If we say, “I’m not looking for anything serious…” we really mean: “I don’t quite think you’re girlfriend material, but we can have sex and catch a movie occasionally.”

2) FOR THE LOVE OF GOD: please don’t wear those hideous gladiator sandals EVER again. We need you lookin’ sexy in the summer-not like you’re about to do battle with a tiger in the Roman coliseum.

3) When you say you’ll “be right out,” after we arrive to pick you up for our date-we know you won’t really be ready for another 20 minutes.

4) Since we know yo’ ass is just gettin’ out of the shower when we get there, we’ve learned to call and say we’re outside waiting-when we’re actually a few miles away. Hopefully, you’ll be ready when we really show up.

5) When you say, “I’ve taken a vow of celibacy to get my life right with the Lord,” we hear, “Some dude f#ked me the hell over-and now I’m gon’ take it out on YOU!”

6) Can we please watch a UFC fight without you saying it’s gay and homoerotic? Maybe it’s me, but I ain’t never seen a dude kick another man in the face because he wanted to have sex with him.

7) NEVER show up at our place unannounced. Unless, of course, you want to see the horrific, unspeakable condition of our bathroom. ‘Cause the only time we clean it is before you come over.

8 ) If you chose Turn My Swag On as your phone’s ringtone-we’re definitely “not looking for anything serious.”

9) When you ask which purse goes with the dress and shoes you’re wearing-realize that we’re probably 30 minutes late for where we’re supposed to be. Therefore, we’re probably gon’ tell you anything to expedite the process.

10) When we take you to dinner and you nag, bitch, and complain to the waiter all night-we envision you doing the same to us five years from now when we’re attempting to watch the game.

11) If you’re considering chopping off all your hair because you need a “new beginning” after some dude played you-please don’t do it. You’ll regret it in the morning.

12) “Honey, I’m going to the gym. Wanna come?” really means, “Uh, I’ve noticed that you’ve gained a few pounds-and this is the safest way to tell you.”

13) When you pop up for the first time in weeks and say, “Hey, stranger! How’ve you been?” we hear, “Things didn’t work out with the other dude. Good thing we have YOU as our fall-back option.”

14) That being the case, we’ll tell the aforementioned young lady we’re “not looking for anything serious.”

15) Beyonce is not a philosopher whose music should be interpreted as gospel. Thus, if you’ve ever asked your guy to “put a ring on it,” told a man you can “upgrade” him, or dumped him by saying, “to the left” twice-you’re automatically disqualified from being the future mother of our children.

What you shouldn't post on facebook

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Mind you, these people aren’t on my list but here’s something that I was sent. I guess my source wouldn’t want to be linked:
These were two girls posting back and forth on THE FACEBOOK WALL! This is supidity.. I mean sure the entire story isn’t there but people just found out your business… I’m sure this would work better in a private message. I guess this links also to being careful about what you post online also because BIG BROTHER watches.

Read from bottom up…

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I’m starting to get cautious of exposing too much now because it does show the entire world your weaknesses… so much for power strategies…