Tagging pics is cool, but be fast or it's very uncool

Saw this floating on my Newsfeed this morning. Teenager Boy A says to Teenager Boy B.

"you just commented on a post that's 5 month's old. What the fuck Nxxxi"

he just got virtually 'slammed'

RickyF Launches aBlog inside the OCZONE

TO protect the innocent, we're going with code names here. Let's talk about OCZONE company and RickyF the young KM'er in the making.

RickyF went to a "gangsta" (read: cool) conference in a cool city with lots of skyscrapers last month. He came away pumped (read: fired up), stoked (read: enlightened) and ready to take action back at OCZONE.

He slips back inside the fence and starts up a 'blog' ... no response. So he re-crafts his outpouring of enthusiasm ... and no response. So he re-groups yet again (this guy is very resilient) and gets one Comment and one email with a long list of excuses about not having time for such frivolous activities.

What will his next move be? Will RickyF regroup a 4th time? Will RickyF give it up? Will he stall out and wait for them to forget, then come back? What will RickyF do????

Watch this station for the next episode!

Mandatory Social Networking inside the Firewall

Talked to an old friend last night about her company's introduction of an internal, custom-built social networking site inside the firewall. They have mandated usage. This is a "Big n" firm, where n used to= 8, then dropped to 6, then somewhere along the line dropped to some new lower number, that no one can remember.

Anyway, seems that it's a bit confusing for folks that are already established in other SNS like FB, etc. It must be like having multiple personalities, that can't talk to each other. Obviously this must be a US mandate, even though the company is global. Can you imagine how this would go over in Europe? Puhleeess !

mental note to self: call her back in 6 months to see how that is really working out

Google Docs Update - 96 hrs later

Here's the outcome - amazingly did get 2 people to edit the actual Google doc, BUT these two were pretty IT savvy. One of them is even in Facebook and will actually watch for updates.

The other 2 didn't even try. They just sent me the content back in an email and I had to plug it in for them.

Curious to me that they would not even try it.... why? must find out why? how can I find this out without being rude about it ... Need more grace for this type of work.

Blogging Frequency - Notes - #1

I definitely can come up with a story , vignette, anecdote everyday, but somehow just yesterday was apparently 2 days ago. What happened? 2 days just slipped over the waterfall and I didn't even notice?

How can this be? I'm online all the time? How do I really DO this daily?

89 Online Friends

How can you make sense of long list of 89 friends online? I thought I was pretty well plugged in, when I would find 10-13 friends of my online, but 89????

I was just watching Daniel "facebooking" (new verb, as far as I'm concerned) and noticed that 89 of his Friends were online at that moment. His response to my amazement was "duh ..., of course everyone is online, this is THE time of day that we do this!" It was 9:20 pm on a Wednesday - school night.

"Add as Friend" then go under the Radar

It seems that many teens are willing to "Add as Friend", but then don't ever let them know that you are out there watching what's going on, or they will drop you. With most of them now having 300, 400, 500, ... have even seen a couple with 900+ Friends, they quickly forget that they have accepted you as a Friend and obviously aren't doing any housekeeping of any sort.

My friend Tiina reported that her son accepted her at first, but then dropped her. I witnessed another Wall-to-Wall discussion between two 15-yr old boys about why one would never in a million years accept his Mom (well,,,, that's not exactly how he phrased it :). Ironically, he had accepted me, and in fact has even engaged me in a couple of dialogues. However, when I told Daniel that I had 'talked' to Scott, he thought that was very weird, almost bordering on the 'sick' level.

So. Best approach is to Stay Low, if you want to stay in the game.