If you are a member of a online social network, for example, Facebook , be careful when you think you are venting only to your friends, often, when you hit the Submit key, what you just wrote will be read by the entire world! This was the unfortunate demise experienced by a college professor, Reiko Ohnuma !  To prepare for her class the professor looked something up on Wikipedia , which she wasn't very proud of doing.  Then follows a tirade of venting to her friends on Facebo...

I'll admit I was clueless as to what Twitter was.  I heard the word thrown about, even during the recent election. I've heard it mentioned by talk show hosts, people there, even here.  I saw this link in my mailbox account and took a look at it.  My review of the link had me laughing.  I don't know, I laughed because I am amazed at this and now realise why so many are fascinated with this new 'thing' .  My understanding of Twitter is that you basically ask one qu...

This one takes the cake, or make that the burger! Recently on Facebook, several people lost their friendship because of a burger!     Recently, Burger King ran a “Whopper Sacrifice” campaign.   What is that you might wonder?   The ever inventive and creative people at Burger King (and their advertising agency) offered a free burger to anyone on Facebook who would delete 10 of their friends on Facebook!   A free burger ended 234,0...

Did you hear about the woman who was denied a teaching degree because of a questionable picture of her in a costume and posted on a MySpace page with what seemed to be at the time, a rather amusing caption! The powers that be at the university she was supposed to get her teaching degree from thought the photo was "unprofessional" and "potentially offensive" because it seems to promote underage drinking and she's unfit to be in the teaching profession because of that! (read the link bel...

I took time from my reading and responding because JU is doing it to me again! For the last month I've been having problems with the site, on and off. I accepted this because I know it gets busy and with all the new stuff being done, sometimes things don't work right. For example, not being able to respond, being asked to log in when I'm already logged in. Being kicked off when I'm logged in, and other zany things I can't remember. It is becoming an irritating itch now because to ...