Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Vaguebooking: A Cry for Attention

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One of my morning rituals, among many, is checking out my friends’ Facebook status. For someone like me who has friends all over the world, Facebook gives a simple outlet to keep in touch with everybody without spending too much money for texting and SMS-ing, or wasting too much time in chatting (time difference makes [...]

May 24, 2010 Tech & Web 6 Comments

On Old Friends in Facebook

Budi Putra posted a very interesting fact about Facebook: as of March 2010, Indonesia is at the top rank of Facebook users in Asia. With 18.9 million users, Indonesia is well ahead of the number two, Philippines  (10.5 million), and number three, India (6.8 million). I am not surprised. Indonesia might pick up the trend [...]

March 8, 2010 Tech & Web 5 Comments

Indonesia Unite… For What?

Within hours after two hotels in the heart of Jakarta were shattered by bombs, there has been a big development in Indonesian blogosphere, or should I say twitterworld. clipped from www.budiputra.com Started from Friday afternoon, the Indonesian Twitter users put their new red and white avatars (red and white represents the national flag)–while some avatars [...]

July 20, 2009 Indonesia, Tech & Web 17 Comments

New MI6 Chief was Exposed in Facebook

The wife of the new head of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligent agency, has caused a major security breach and left his family exposed after publishing photographs and personal details on Facebook (foreign office staff are warned about using social networking sites when they join but MI6 advises its agents to maintain even tighter secrecy, telling [...]

July 11, 2009 Tech & Web, UK 2 Comments

UK Teenager Saved By Facebook

I know I have been publishing stories about facebook a lot lately, and here is another one! clipped from news.bbc.co.uk A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm. The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he [...]

April 5, 2009 Tech & Web 4 Comments

How Well Do You Know Your Family?

How Well Do You Know Your Family?

Following my previous post about how facebook has taken my friends away,  I also have to mention that this particular social network has helped me to connect with long lost relatives. I am not really good at keeping in touch with my cousins, second cousins, and so-called aunties and uncles. I mostly know the immediate [...]

April 2, 2009 Indonesia 0 Comments

Facebook Has Taken My Friends Away…

…Literally. I am deleted from someone’s friends list because apparently his wife was jealous at me. I also found another friend has deleted his own cheeky comments and his tag in several pictures because his wife has just joined facebook and might see our pictures grinning at Dragonfly and wouldn’t be happy about it. I [...]

March 25, 2009 Women, featured 33 Comments

Facebook Phone

Facebook Phone

For those Facebook fans, you might want this for your Christmas! clipped from www.guardian.co.uk INQ1 – 3′s ‘Facebook phone’ Mobile phone company 3 is hoping to capitalise on the success of Facebook with the release of a new handset in time for Christmas that integrates the social networking site with all the traditional functions of [...]

November 13, 2008 Tech & Web 8 Comments

Facebook Can Ruin Your Life

Isn’t it funny that we live behind closed doors but our private lives are wide open to the entire world? We cautiously block the window with thick curtains so people wouldn’t see what we are doing. We lock the door so no one could enter without permission. But then we sit comfortably on the settee [...]

February 11, 2008 Tech & Web 22 Comments

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