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VPDAs: What You Should Know
VPDAs are spreading at an alarming rate. I don't mean to sound like a crotchety, get off my lawn old man type but I believe there's a reason why God invented underwear for us, because obviously he didn't want random people willy nilly seeing our balls.
But, I digress. No matter how "common" these episodes of wickedness seem to have become in our new devil-may-care society, it's still quite shocking to see two people that you consider minimally annoying enough that you hesitantly confirmed them as friends on Facebook only to then have them blatantly and shamelessly publish shocking VPDAs that end up in your timeline. If my mother knew how to use a computer she may possibly have seen these!
You may be asking yourself, "what the eff is a VPDA?" Of course normally I would take this opportunity to chide you and point out how stupid you were for not knowing something and being an idiot, but since I just this second made up the term "VPDA" I suppose it's a valid question. A VPDA is a Virtual Public Display of Affection and has been plaguing social media platforms since man first walked out of the ocean, then climbed up into trees, then climbed back down from the trees and learned to speak binary code, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
I present to you Exhibit A: Look at the creepy correlations between these two posts from two different people, on two different coasts, people (who I thought I knew) posting VPDAs at virtually the exact same time.
Let's take a closer look at just how bizarre these social media updates are. Not only are both profile pictures practically identical, they somehow managed to defy virtually all known laws that govern time and space and post these updates at precisely the same time. Mind you, each "friend" posts a photo of their significant other along with a one word adjective to describe aforementioned significant other. I would imagine the odds of this happening are something like 1 : 1 with 427,000 zeros on the end.
Between the crazy winter storms, the ungodly 60 mph wind slowly destroying Staten Island, the continued success of Miley Cyrus and now this, I am starting to believe this 2012 stuff may have some legitimacy to it. May God have mercy on our souls.
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Twitter has harsh penalties for losing your password
Here's the deal. I have quite a few twitter accounts, each of which has to have it's own unique email address. Besides the fact that this is a very annoying issue that Twitter needs to address considering so many people have personal and business Twitter accounts, apparently it's a pretty unforgiving place to misplace your password.
I was actually using the password retrieval to try and figure out what account was associated with my personal email address. When I clicked on the "Lost Password" link and entered my email address this is the page I was directed to. I still haven't received any password instructions so not only do I still not know what account my email was associated with, it may be a mute point since it quite possibly was deleted for no apparent reason other than using the "Forgot your password" link. This isn't the first time this has happened but this seemed less flukey which made it more annoying.Thanks Twitter, once again you're proving my point that you'll be irrelevant by year's end.Comments [0]
How to Keep Google Buzz Updates Out of Your Inbox
It seems like one of the chief complaints about Google Buzz is that all of the updates land in your inbox and clutter things up. I was surprised to see Steve Rubel, a big fan of most things Google mention that most people don't even know that filters for gmail even exist.
I'm not sure if that's true or not but either way, it's easy enough to get in and get your hands dirty with Buzz without having to worry about clogging up your inbox. In 5 easy steps your inbox can be buzz free.- Click on the "settings" tab in upper right hand corner of your Gmail account.
- Click on the "filters" tab on your settings page.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page (if you have filters to scroll down to) and press the "Creat a new filter" link.
- Set up your filter just like this: add the word "Buzz" in the subject line and click the Next Step >> button
- Set up this screen with these options:
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And this is before the heavy snow falls
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Twitter gets local
Twitter has a new feature that allows you set your location to see the trending topics in your specific area. As of now it's pretty general, unless you live in a decent sized city you're stuck with either picking the closest one to you or just narrowing it down to the United States. Which I guess would come in handy to make sure you don't see any weirdo trending topics about Formula 1 racing or soccer. Stick with the United States and you're sure to get some bad ass relevant tags about the BGC ("Bad Girls Club for all you squares out there) or how some skank named Amber got beat up on the BGC or some other compelling trending topic that gives you hope about the future of our country.
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Thanks for the heart attack Twitter
I just went to Twitter.com and found this page waiting for me. I mean, imagine if my Twitter account had somehow been accidentally deleted. It's unthinkable. You'd be hard pressed to find a tragedy in recent memory that is proportional to the amount of people, not even including myself (I'm a giver), who would be forced to go without my 140 characters or less insights on the world. Fortunately I was able to login, but it scared the crap out of me for a second.
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Google's in the Outfield
Ok Google, my patience is waning. I've been a loyal Google fanboy for far too long to be treated like this. I've been using gmail since it was only a few months into beta. I talked until I was blue in the face to convince virtually every one of my family and freinds to switch to gmail. Granted that's only about 7 people, but, well...shut up.
I remember when gTalk came out and I stayed up until 1 a.m. to download it. Of course no one I know was stupid enough to do that, nor had they even heard of or cared about what gtalk was. For months I was forced to chat on gtalk with complete strangers. God knows what could have happened to me. Do you know what happens after you spend months IMing with perfect strangers? Well apparently they "don't know you" and have a hard time recognizing sarcasm via an instant message and just want you to "leave them the hell alone before they call the cops". And where did that leave me? Do you have any idea what it's like to try and IM to yourself? I pay for extra Google storage to have space for my photos that I organize with Picasa which I use to share my pictures onto Picasa Web. Right now I only have 42 pictures online but someday I plan on taking a lot more perhaps and I'll need some place to store them. Sadly, I once dumped a girl I had had a crush on since the first grade and had been married to for 22 years, because she refused to give up her Yahoo! Mail.I made a special trip to China, not, as you might think, to see all of the beautiful sights and take in the amazing culture of a 5,000-year-old society, but so I could set up a proxy server and do Google searches for "democracy", "capitalism" and "porn". Now, almost four hours after announcing to the entire world that Google Buzz was launching, out of the hundreds of thousands of servers you have you still haven't randomly gotten to the batch of servers that my Gmail account is hosted on and turned Buzz on. How on earth can I not take this personally?Comments [1]
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