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Get a Facebook Girl Friend for USD5

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Virtual Girlfriend
Facebook Girlfriend

Will it ever end? I mean the need to show the world – at least your world – that you have a girl friend, or a boy friend for that matter? Some time last year, we heard about Cloud Girl Friend, the automated system which can give you a virtual girlfriend so that you won’t come off as lonely on Facebook.

While it did seem that the service held some promise – after all, there is a huge market for a Facebook girl friend, I suppose – Cloud Girl Friend did not really fly. The main reason for this is that Facebook has a ban on computer-controlled accounts, which is rather understandable. [Read more…] about Get a Facebook Girl Friend for USD5

ifidie Facebook App Gives Life After Death

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ifidie Facebook app
ifidie Facebook app

Call it morbid, but I suppose there are a lot of people who want to leave something behind when they pass away. We never know when our lives will end, but there are ways and means by which we can make sure that what we want to say never gets left unsaid.

Enter ifidie, the Facebook app that offers people the chance to prepare messages that will get published on the social networking site even if they are already dead. Famous last words. Life after death (in a way). [Read more…] about ifidie Facebook App Gives Life After Death

Choose Your Next Airplane Seat Mate Using Social Media

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Airplane Seat Plan
Airplane Seat Plan

Anyone who has had to fly coach probably has experienced the nightmare of having an incompatible seat mate. If you are the type who just likes to spend time sleeping, reading, or listening to music, the antagonist in the nightmare is the seat mate who just will not stop trying to chat you up. Even when you pointedly put your earphones on. If you are the kind who likes to meet new people and learn about them, then you might be the antagonist.

Finger pointing will not do any good, though, as we all are unique in our own ways. The only solution is to be tolerant of others, isn’t it?

Think again! If you’re lucky enough to have the option of flying Malaysia Airlines or KLM, you have a chance to pre-select your seat mate on the plane using social media. [Read more…] about Choose Your Next Airplane Seat Mate Using Social Media

Facebook to Blame for 33% of British Divorces

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Facebook Divorce
Are you really surprised? I think I have written about how the effect of Facebook usage on relationships before, but I can’t seem to find the entry anymore. In any case, this “new” development is the result of a survey conducted by Divorce-Online, an – you guessed it – online divorce service in the UK.

According to the survey, one third of filed divorces in the United Kingdom in 2011 include the word “Facebook”. So what is the relationship between the lifeline of a lot of people social networking site and divorce petitions? In the cases involving Facebook, the people filing for divorce note down instances such as “inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex, comments posted about each other, and Facebook friends reporting when a spouse has been up to no good”. ((Source: Crave)) [Read more…] about Facebook to Blame for 33% of British Divorces

MyRobots: The Social Network for Robots

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MyRobots
MyRobots
So you have a robot. Now what? You can always play with it. Invite your friends who are crazy about robots. Take a video while you are all having fun, and probably upload it to YouTube. What if you are alone in your enthusiasm? What if you love your robot – or robots, for that matter – but want to interact more with other people who have the same passion?

There’s an app for that! Ooops – not an app, but a social network!

I kid you not. There is now a social network specifically targeted at robots, and it is the brainchild of RobotShop, which is supposed to be the world’s most popular e-commerce site that specializes in service robotics. What does MyRobots offer? [Read more…] about MyRobots: The Social Network for Robots

InstaBG your Twitter Page

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This marketing strategy works with food, makeup and your Twitter account: packaging is everything.  The typical Twitter page is, in a word, boring and generic—the equivalent of a white plastic bag. But with instabg.com, you can decorate your Twitter page with any photo you upload in Instagram.

So how does that attract followers? The InstaBG background immediately makes your Twitter page look different. You personalize your page, instantly communicating your interests, your personality, or (if it’s a professional Twitter account) your subject, topic, brand, or company. Without even reading any of your Tweets, your readers can immediately guess what they can expect from you. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, or a thousand Tweets. [Read more…] about InstaBG your Twitter Page