Mother's Day

I think it's funny what the social media world can do for holidays.  People can take one tiny, simple idea, and it can circulate around the blogosphere like it was a national idea.  Things along the lines of changing your profile picture or changing your name.  It is really fun and interesting to see the people that go along with these ideas, and what they end up posting.

Take for example this holiday that was celebrated today, Mother's Day.  The new thing that went through facebook was to change your profile picture to that of your mom to celebrate.  This was something that I had done already, but it was fun to see the reaction that everyone had to this.  Many, many people changed their profile picture to honor their mother and show their love for their moms.

So even on the Internet, we all know where our hearts really lie, in our moms!

Love you mom!

- GP

Tweet!

This week was my first experience with Twitter that I've ever had.  Of course, going in, there was a lot of skepticism on my part.  I knew what the general idea of Twitter was, but having never used it, I didn't know all about it.  After a week, I still have many of the same feelings, but I can say that my view has changed ever so slightly.

Before this week, I didn't like Twitter.  Mostly because I thought of it as a glorified Facebook status.  All you can do is write a little bit about what you're doing, and you had to fit it all within 140 characters.  The stereotype on Twitter was that people would abuse it and tweet about stupid things.  "I'm eating a sandwich," or "I'm on my way to work," or other stupid things along those lines.

After this week, and following a few people, I realized that not everyone does that (although there are some people that do that, and I may have to stop following them).  But, it's rare that people use Twitter like that.  Most people use Twitter in a manner that is socially acceptable.  I feel that I should keep my Twitter account for at least a couple weeks longer, and give Twitter a real chance.

-GP

New Fun Website

I recently found this website online with a ton of different videos.  292 to be exact.  All these videos are about things we should know.  In fact, the website is called, ThingsYouOughtToKnow.com.  I found it from a video that my mom posted on facebook about grammar in  America, and how it's gone down hill.  This is the video that momma Peterfy posted:

This video prompted me to search the site a little bit further.  I found on on facebook that I thought was interesting.

He makes some valid points in here.  Basically, nothing was really learned from the study.  Most guys do like to brag, and most women want to look good in their pictures.  So, in reality, facebook hasn't changed America that much?  I really find that hard to believe.  But, I do think that found a new website that I love.

-GP

MySpace

Whatever happened to MySpace?  Remember when it was the cool thing to be a part of?  Now, whenever I hear someone talk about it or some company or older person mention it, I immediately judge them.  Does that make me a bad person?

But, for real.  Whatever happened to MySpace?  I recently tried to log into my MySpace, because it's still there.  But, I've since had like five different email addresses, so naturally I didn't remember my email address, not even getting to the password.  So, I searched google to look at it.  I still have like 300 friends or something like that.  That means that everyone else still has their old MySpace's too.

I just want to implore everyone to look up their old MySpace and see what we've been missing the past 4-5 years.  You know you want to.

Then I thought about how the Social Media scene has grown, and I realized that is just how it is these days.  But, then again, it's kind of amazing that facebook has lasted as long as it has without being phased out by something else.  It makes me excited to think about what comes next!

-GP