Dandylion Events

I've been helping my friend get her business started! Here's the new logo and twitter page, and be sure to glance at the twitter icon :)

@dandylionevents

I wonder what I said on July 20th?

Number of tweets over the past 3 months.


Number of followers over the past 3 months.


Number of followers for the past month.


It says I updated 16 times on the 20th, but looking through my history that's not true, although I did a lot on the 21st.

Also it's interesting that I've been consistently posting 6 times a day.

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LiveJournal - the early "social network"

It seems that a lot of my friends who used to use LiveJournal, as if it was a daily "have to," are still using it. And I too use it sometimes, but usually just to let out rants and emotions that I otherwise have no one else to share them with. so my readers of those are my old friends from college. from back in the day when LiveJournal was the cool thing.

Is it still cool? are kids using it these days?
I'm assuming all traffic has gone to Facebook. (i love facebook too)
With that said though, is LiveJournal like this for many other people who used to use it daily? do they still use it? Are there other pockets of friends who use it to keep in touch?
Perhaps LiveJournal is now a collection of mid 20's and 30's individuals still keeping in touch with one another. LiveJournal, to me, has become a very authentic place. It's more like a collection of letters. And to think that it used to be weird quizzes and weird questions, and messing around with each other. showing off. and all the while a public journal.

But it's really pretty neat to think about how I can go to my old journal and read posts of those people I'm really close to. or once was, and will always feel close to and love.

and then I can go to Facebook and read about people that i knew in high school who I've completely lost touch with, people who i've met once randomly, and people that I know now and see on a regular basis.

Don't forget Twitter. I've set mine up to send me a constant stream of inspiration and quotes, and posts by people who I admire. But most of the people on Twitter, I don't really know. Of course there's some close friends on there. but that's not the majority of my stream.

Really, I can hardly remember what life was like without cell phones or things like Facebook and LiveJournal. It's all made it so easy, and strangely impersonal. Are we going to forget how to act face to face? I already have a hard enough time doing that as it is.

Brain Twittering

If I could twitter with my brain, it would be a very BAD IDEA.

but this is a neat article, none the less. And very exciting for patients.


I'm kind of getting sick of the word "Twitter," by the way.

too much media.

MEDIA OVER LOAD.

I like using twitter, but honestly when someone posts too often in the day, I'm taking them off my list. At first I wanted to add anyone and everyone who i could learn from, or get inspiration from, as well as friends, family, big people, small people. But now when there's so much on there, that I can't keep up with that as well as my regular e-mail messages, and we're not even starting on google reader lists. I never will keep up with that one. I'm on the cusp of becoming a modern person - or something. But I wonder if it's too much to handle. Am I getting old!?

How do all of these busy and rising professionals have time to keep up!

- While working AND making great work?!

Bright Kite

I'm not really sure what the purpose of BrightKite is. I guess it would be more useful if i lived somewhere where all my friends had it, and they all lived in close vicinity. A good thing is that if i update on BrightKite, it updates on my twitter, so my twitter readers know where i am (if they really want to know).

I've decided that it's best to keep it private. which takes away even more, an original purpose in having BrightKite. While i was in NY, i got all sorts of friend requests and messages. I assume that's normal really. but i changed over to private. I have no clue who these people are. And that's a little scary sometimes.

The above map shows my weak little friend's list. and it tells me when they update. granted most of those people are in different states, including myself, but still, we're all pretty far apart.