#56: To Tweet or Not To Tweet...Twitter

Accordingly to Wikipedia, Twitter is a Micro-blogging which is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micro media such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.

And from Twitter:
Twitter: a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Twitter glossary has words like:
Twaiting: twittering while waiting
Tweeple: Twitter users
Twitterati: Glamorous A-List twitterers everyone wants to follow.
Twellow, Twitter Elite, Twitip …

You get the picture. It’s a new language,(at least to me.) Sound kind of cute, silly and fun. But I don’t see myself “Tweet” at all. I did not see any use for it. It’s just another way to communicate, socialize ... on-line from people who have so much free time and don’t know what else to do.

I looked at “celebrity tweet,” I wonder how much is really true. Some more search, here and there ... and I decide I will pass ... twitting.

#55: Getting the Most Out of Facebook

Sign up for a FaceBook account were very easy. The minute I’ve done, my three children pictures popped up. They made me laughed. Next thing I knew was one of my daughters accepted me as “friend.”

Next search took me to a few more of familiar names and faces; they are cousins, nieces and nephews from other states (Massachusetts, California …) in foreign countries as close as Canada, Puerto Rico … or as far as VietNam, Australia …

Using Find More, it surprised me to... a thread "Uong" union. I have a very unique last name; it's only come from one tiny village in the north of VietNam. If your last name (or your mother last name) is Uong and you are Vietnamese (there are some Korean, Chinese... with the same last name) we must be related some way. Only today, we have to introduce ourselves like: my father is … my mother is … or maybe stretch up to my grandfather …, my great grandfather … Through this thread I learned these "Uong" are all ages and from all over places. Everyone was so excited to learn about the other "Uong" from the other world.

I added flair to my account then to find it was a hard decision for what to add, I don't intend to visit every day. It’s really a fun and adventured experience.

FaceBook is just another social web site, I don't think I have time to spend now but I will keep my Facebook account open, perhaps visit it once a while, to check on union page (?) May be I will find it useful someday.