Treasure Jar

Let’s admit it, being in the midst of the action in social media seems to be that BIG thing since sending sms has been introduced to us Filipinos. You know, we who boasts as THE texting capital of the world and upcoming Facebook superstar in terms of sheer number of accounts created, real accounts to the right and dummy accounts to the left are all counted here.

Anyway, Facebook is not the only social media platform we all use. Twitter is another form of social media which very well takes third place, where sms is still king for now and Facebook comes second, in terms of sending messages and group announcements. Other microblogging sites are catching up too.

Yes dearies, the young has invaded Twitter too and why not? Sending messages to friends via Twitter is FREE. Free in terms of not using data charge per message sent per subscriber. Imagine, if all your friends are in Twitter, you can just send a status update to your 10 friends that tomorrow you will be going to the mall after school. There’s really no need to  shell out money ten times multiplied several times as the number of messages because you can reply several times as long as you want to.

I’m sure the telcos are squirming in their seats trying to think of ways on how their subscribers can part with their hard-earned money.

For me, there’s a dark side to engaging in these social media tools when it comes to communicating with friends, real or virtual. Continue Reading »

Tags: Has Social Media Changed your Life?, Social Media, Social Media Changed lives

Western Union celebrates its 160th Anniversary by launching the Western Union Network Challenge. The Western Union Network Challenge aims to identify the Most Globally Networked Person in the World.

As for us in the Philippines, we will see how geographically networked we are through a new online interactive application called Your World.

MECHANICS:

• Log-in to your Facebook account at  www.westernunionworld.com/yourworld so that the application can calculate your global connectivity. This app will also be able to post items like notes and photographs into your wall.
• When logged in, you will be given a visual representation of the geographical locations of your Facebook friends. The countries are represented as “planets” in your own personal universe. More planets mean more global connectivity with friends living overseas.
• This is a self-promoting application. Whenever you interact with the app, an alert is published in your Facebook wall inviting your friends to join so they can also see how globally networked they are.
• For the competitive individuals, you can have your own score or World Index based on how globally connected you are and this score will be compared against your Facebook and others who are using the application.

Here is my World Index:

CHALLENGE:

Try this application: YOUR WORLD and see how what score you will get in the World Index? See how globally networked you are.

Would you like to join me and see how you fare? You can see your friends who live and work overseas as nurses, engineers, doctors, Reservations Clerk jobs, chambermaid and domestic mangers in this World Index. How fun it that?

Here’s how:

1. Login to YOUR WORLD
2. Take a screenshot of your personal universe and email the photo to me treasureATtreasurejarDOTinfo. Or better yet, write about it in your blog or post on your FB wall.
3. You can also tweet  the  statement:  Are  you  more  globally  connected  than  me?  Take  the  Western  Union  Challenge  at  westernunionworld.com/yourworld  + (blog) name
   
4. Do this and you will be surprised how you fare as a Globally Networked person 🙂

DISCLOSURE:

There is no  partnership  or   relationship  of similar  nature  between  Western  Union  and  I,  nor am I endorsing  the  Western  Union® Money Transfer service.

Tags: Most Globally Networked, Western Union 160th Anniversary, Western Union Globally Networked Person

1. Bells :: give tingling sounds
2. Germs :: are something I don’t want to be in close contact with
3. Athlete :: hardworking people
4. Voice :: The Voice singing contest on TV is cool (for me)
5. Diamonds :: are a girl’s best friend, so the say
6. Hoarse :: voice from cheering on the children playing games
7. Tempest :: Milky Way is a cool video I watched last night
8. Hurricane :: Irene is currently bashing the USA and we’re praying for the safety of everyone especially our loved ones there
9. Bumps :: may make a horse in an english horse tack fall down
10. Jazz :: music is soothing and relaxing

Tags: mutterings, Word Play

I don’t know if it’s the (almost) full moon tonight but it seems that a lot of things had gone haywire.

Good thing lunch with my friends iMom, Cess and Cookie went smoothly. But after that almost everything went a downward spiral.

Except of course today’s the birthday of our eldest daughter so that is more than enough reason to be happy.

I know these things that happened earlier shouldn’t affect me but I can’t help but feel sad. I’d rather “read about rv insurance quotes for half a day” or learn “how to spot a cheetah several miles away at a savannah” than relive what happened earlier.

Well, not totally relive since I wasn’t “there” in the first place and all I got was “hearsay”.

Argh.

Full moon rising.

1. Nag :: argh!
2. Smug :: looking people are not people you’d like to see on a daily basis
3. Barry :: Manilow and Gibbs
4. Righteous :: People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. ~Martin Luther
5. Hairstylist :: I need to see one. ASAP.
6. Vibrate :: the mobile phone when the circumstances call for it.
7. Deal :: with hurt feelings when graduation announcements come and not everyone is invited to attend the momentous event.
8. Communicate :: with your loved ones. Always.
9. Telling :: sentences are also called declarative sentences.
10. Andrew :: Lloyd Webber music is wonderful

Tags: mutterings, Unconscious Mutterings, Word Play, words

I’ve recently signed up an account with another one of those groupons or online discount voucher sites.

*rolls eyes and shudders*

I chose to pay with over-the-counter method so that we don’t have to go online and pay with rfid credit cards. Plus hubby was the one paying because I am closely guarding my online spending for something big (read: tuition fee).

It was of extreme importance that I sign up with THIS one because they were offering a small gadget with another one thrown in the bundle. The price was irresistible and so the hubby agreed we’d get the deal because we were going to buy that certain gadget anyway.

Tags: groupon, online discount voucher sites, online discount vouchers