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Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

PurpleCar — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:01:07 -0000

Will-

thanks for coming.

Yeah, we all love to complain. It's a sport. And yes, you can't really communicate with people who 1. don't follow back and 2. don't answer your @'s or DM's. Some people are Twitter snobs, just as they are in real life, so just ditch 'em. I'm not treating Twitter as a personality contest. I unfollow even the 'famous' social media people if they make too much noise, ya know? It doesn't matter. I just try to have fun with it.

-PC

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

WillyFourEyes — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:18:50 -0000

Yeah...I don't understand why there's so much complaining about it. I know I've been tempted to piss and moan about Twitter because it's the "next big thing" (a la MySpace and Facebook), but like most others, I learn to adapt. I should probably communicate more with the people I'm following, but it doesn't always work both ways, you know?

Re: To (Mommy) Blog or Not to (Mommy) Blog?

Chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:00:50 -0000

Love it...

Re: To (Mommy) Blog or Not to (Mommy) Blog?

p0ps — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:52:01 -0000

yes, happy blogging indeed! 20 readers make a community. we all need community. even us over 60 bubble living mainlining FF.

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

Amy Hampton — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:24:58 -0000

I have just been emailed this warning so unfortunately its leaked out of facebook already.

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

Ebrahim — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:41:06 -0000

A huge thanks for the info...Its amazing what seems like a simple prank can snowball and turn into an avalanche. Best of luck to Adam Slaney.

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

PurpleCar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:33:10 -0000

Hi Sally Ann Slaney,

As you painfully know, practical jokes are best left to whoopie cushions and kept well away from Facebook and the web. Starting a fake viral warning is a libelous act and can be proved in court. You can't have one son bring legal charges against another, though.

I'm sorry your sons underestimated the viral ability of the internet. It's a mistake that many others will make in the next 5 years. Hopefully websites' Terms of Service, international law, and common sense will catch up to this wild west by then.

In the meantime:

*Have your son Adam contact Facebook if he hasn't already. I haven't looked closely at Facebook's Terms of Service, but perhaps they can help even if there isn't a violation they must at upon (I have little faith that they will do anything unless legally forced to, but it is worth a try).

*Contact the other Adam Slaneys I found on Facebook and ask them to present a united front to the Facebook guys.

*Contact Snopes.com and ask them to add your son's name to the entry that I linked to above.

*Contact your state rep to see what is happening in your state's legislature and federally. You may want to get involved that way, to give some meaning to this ridiculousness. If you can help stop it from happening to my son (who is 2 years old right now), I and other moms around the world would deeply appreciate it.

People have changed their legal names after such incidents, so it is no small matter. It may take years if not decades for this to die down. I haven't seen this particular fake warning anywhere other than Facebook, but it will probably leak to places like myspace.com, Twitter.com, et al., and continue ad infinitum. If your son is serious about building an on-line presence for his business, he should gather solid evidence on how this interrupts those goals (don't make decisions based on 'feelings' about the internet. Get measureable data). If the "bad press" proves to be insurmountable, I suggest he start using his middle name, change his name, and/or change his company's brand name, and move on.

I'm sorry there isn't much more I can offer you. Maybe my readers have some helpful suggestions to add. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

-Christine (PurpleCar)

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

Sally Ann Slaney — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:28 -0000

FYI Adam Slaney is my son, and this was a stupid prank set by his elder brother,(still bullying him at the age of 32). He thought it was funny at the time but now realises how crazy it was.. It has caused Adam untold problems as he tries to run a small business from his computer. It has gone all over the world and back, I still get warnings now.
Would appreciate any advise as to how we can reverse the damage done.
Sally A Slaney

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

Cynthia Wood — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:30:45 -0000

Thanks - had this Facebook message and thought it was probably a hoax and now had it confirmed.

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

moonflower — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:43:37 -0000

Thank you very much for checking this out. I just got one through facebook on richard peel. Glad I thought to search it in case it was bs first.

Re: Olympic Poetry?

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Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:40:03 -0000

Thanks! I just got the Richard Peel one on Facebook and was like, "This has GOT to be a hoax!" So I checked snopes for Richard Peel and didn't find anything, so I googled it and this popped up. Thanks again!

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

PurpleCar — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:17:05 -0000

Thanks Sarah and Pai! Hate to be negative, ya know? But I'm truly embarrassed by all of this. Makes me want to steer people away from Twitter and social media in general.

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

paisano — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:23:41 -0000

You go, girl! Well said. I'm sick of the whining too. Especially from the egomaniacs who never take the time to follow anyone back and use twitter as a one way mirror of vanity. Whatevah.
I did a post like this a while ago when it started to become a trend to rip twitter.
http://thepaisano.com/stop-flipping-the-bird/

Good stuff.

Pai

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

rojopelo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:08:13 -0000

That was just great. I didn't get the whining and was truly turned of by it in many ways and I didn't even check blog posts just tweets, plurks, dents etc.

Re: Book Club, Anytime, Anywhere!

PurpleCar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:54:10 -0000

Ann, that's awesome! I'm gonna check out your site and podcast!

I agree, we need a Ravelry...

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

PurpleCar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:10 -0000

Thanks guys! I try to avoid ranting and YELLING, but this is ridiculous.

I'm not sure there were any internet days that weren't like this. I've been driving around da interwebz for 20 years and I have to say, not much has changed. There is just more of it. This is a good and a bad thing.

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

MarkDykeman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:34:47 -0000

I like your perspective, little red corvette.

Re: Rant on Twitter before breakfast

Rick Wolff — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:24:38 -0000

Thank you! Or should I say, THANK YOU! The temptation is strong to recall for all these whippersnappers the days before all this social media stuff.

Re: Book Club, Anytime, Anywhere!

AnnKingman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:32:48 -0000

I also like GoodReads -- I find the user interface to be a bit nicer than Librarything, and for whatever reason I have not yet warmed up to Shelfari, though they recently had a site redesign.

Of course, Librarything gets bonus points for not requiring a log-in to search for particular titles. For this reason, we use Librarything to link to title information for the books that we talk about on our blog and podcast. (I know the rest of the world uses Amazon for that, but we believe in supporting your local bookseller as well, and Librarything offers multiple purchase options).

Still, I have not yet found the "killer ap" book site. Knitters have Ravelry -- I want something more like that.

(my librarything name is bookwoman)

Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

willsherwood — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:06:37 -0000

Thank you for taking the time to explore this issue. Like you, as soon as I saw it, my bullsh*t meter went off.

Re: Stolen Article from WSJ about anti-Long tail theory

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Re: Stolen Article from WSJ about anti-Long tail theory

PurpleCar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:50:09 -0000

I deleted the image. Thanks for calling it to my attention. It truly didn't occur to me.

I understand that you must keep track of your copyright, but the photo was pretty basic stock stuff of a person at a laptop. I would think its worth is pretty low and you'd rather have the free press, since the photo was credited to you in the article, but to each his own. I know it is hard for photography outlets these days.

Please feel free to respond with your website, link, and price range to your stock photography. If you like, I can make a new post with some of your photos for an ad. I'd be happy to send my readers your way for their stock photo needs. It may be a refreshing change to iStockPhoto.com.

Thanks again for contacting PurpleCar.

-PurpleCar
http://www.purplecar.net/

Re: Stolen Article from WSJ about anti-Long tail theory

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Re: Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

parlophone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:57:43 -0000

Whenever anybody posts something like this, I remove them as my friends, because clearly they are too stupid to be worthy of my friendship.