Where are you now at Angry Birds? I’m currently at level 2, getting addicted to it day by day that I have to make a conscious effort of limiting my play time to an hour at least. Last time I played, it took me 4 hours, which lasted up until midnight and a splitting headache the following day. Angry Birds is better played using a touch-screen pad (IPad’s, Tablet, etc.) while you’re in a traffic jam or taking a break from administering conference call services. A hundred times easier than hitting the laptop keyboard.
Roughly two weeks ago, Facebook made some changes on their interface which allows users to view updates and comments made by their friends. A new box was added to the chat column that runs the updates of people within your circle on real time – what they have posted in their friends’ walls, what or who they subscribed to, who they made friends with, etc. These things were absent in the old “wall”, unless you visit a friend’s page and fish something out from there.
Facebook has achieved everyone a demi-god status, being omniscient and all, but within your own network of course. It is not the typical response to breakdown service report, or a hacking issue. It’s already beyond that.
What threat does it post to us users? Technically, with the new Facebook interface, we were automatically subscribed to follow everyone’s move. Like what Twitter does. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a celebrity or not, but somehow you lose whatever is left of your online private life. Facebook has simply exposed us to people we do not know.
The benefit of getting enough sleep and staying away from anything electronic (no mobile phone and internet) is a clear mind and renewed perspective in life. Which, thank God, I had yesterday.
Now that I have achieved that typical zen through my unconventional means (sleeping and going internet-less), I was reminded of the meeting I had with a mall marketing person about the degree she was getting online. It was an online course in Digital Marketing being run by Ateneo Center of Continuing Education and IMMAP. Since I’ve been like online for more than a decade, managing 4 blogs in my very limited free time, not to mention supervising all digital marketing initiatives at work, I think I should take this course. It’s the new media and the future will be built on the wires. And it’s Ateneo (yeah, the dream school with quality and price tags to it). So why the heck not be an EXPERT on these matters than be content doing regular tech jobs? Companies pay for big ideas…and names.
Here’s the catch: The fall-off-your-seat price is around P6,500 per course. To complete all 11 digital courses, you have to pay P65,000. That would certainly kill any vacation plans abroad. No Singapore this year.
