Mashable Wants Your Twitter Bloopers
You’ve all probably sent a few DMs you would be horrified to see in your public timeline. Perhaps you’ve sent a personal tweet to the wrong person. Maybe, like me, you responded to a DM on your phone thinking you were just texting a friend back who said she had an “emergency” and needed your mobile number. And then a few random phone calls later, you realized… Whoops.
If you’ve done something like this, Mashable wants to know. Write a tweet with “twitterblooper” in it and confess your biggest Twitter blunder. Don’t be shy–I did it!
5 Products I Will Never Buy
I watch a lot of commercials and do my fair share of shopping. I see tons of products online, on TV and out and about in real life all the time. Here are 5 products I would never buy, because they’re dumb.
1. Crocs: I don’t care how comfortable they are–they look like the dopiest shoes on earth. I know in the past few months the company launched some new lines of footwear that was supposed to be more fashionable than their signature look, but I would never buy Crocs of any kind even if they looked exactly like Louboutins. Never.
2. Kinoki Foot Pads: Seriously, what? How could you even sell something like this?
3. Go-GURT: Yoplait’s Go-GURT grosses me out. What a disgusting, squishy idea for a snack. That stuff must not stay cold for very long, and warm yogurt has to be one of the worst concepts ever.
4. CDs: I think it’s funny when people own actually CDs nowadays. When I was 13, I wanted a million CDs and thought the coolest place on the planet was Newbury Comics. Not so much anymore. I would probably sooner buy a cassette just to be funny than buy a CD for any reason.
5. Clairol hair color: In August 2007, I used a dark brown Clairol hair color on my brown hair. I just wanted to take the brown a couple shades darker. It dyed my hair Elvira black and then foamed gray-purple in the shower for the next 10 days. Over the next couple months, the dye faded out of my hair in horizontally banded strips so I looked sort of like a cross between a tiger and a clown. When I spoke with Clairol’s customer service, they were absolutely not apologetic or kind to me and offered me only a reimbursement for the $9 I spent on the hair color. Absolutely terrible.
Thoughts?
I’m Back.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention the term “Internet Hatorade” per Matt McDonald’s expert suggestion. It’s safe to say that I guzzled some major Internet Hatorade back in May. It’s out of my system now, thankfully.
I decided I hated the Internet for a couple weeks. I think I just needed a break from all this crazy stuff. Between being sick, then feeling tired from being sick and generally being in a pissy, anti-social mood, I was just like, “Eww, Social Honeycomb is gross. I hate you, Internet.” I don’t unplug enough (ever?), so it all hit me at once, and I took my break.
But I’m back. Hello, Internet. Can we be friends again?
But I’m Feeling Anti-Social!
When talking to a friend tonight about how sick I’ve been feeling lately, he asked, “Is there anything more than feeling sick? You are getting me worried–you haven’t even blogged for a while.”
It’s just funny how we become so immersed in the content we create and the communities where we participate, that if we don’t make some noise for a few days, people wonder where we go.
I’ve been feeling really sick for the past few days, and the extra energy I’ve had hasn’t really been going into Social Honeycomb. And isn’t that part of the beauty of blogging? I have no deadlines, no one to report to, no editorial calendar to contend with… If I’m feeling like poo, I have the luxury of just being lazy about producing content.
I’m on my couch, watching the SYTYCD auditions and gagging at food commercials. I’m going to be fine, but that’s what I’m doing while I’m feeling anti-social and sick-like.
Boo the conversation, boo participation, boo anything that requires more focus than just lying here doing nothing.
I’ll be back and nice when I’m healthy, yo.
Today’s Honey: May 8, 2008
As promised, Today’s Honey is the quilted leather edition. I can’t get enough of this, so I might just have to blog about handbags exclusively from now on. I honestly haven’t decided if that statement is serious or not yet.
Behold my favorite new purchase–the Burberry Montgomery bag in black:
Women dot Alltop dot Com
This isn’t really breaking news, but I wanted to do what I said I’d do: share that Social Honeycomb is part of the Alltop network. Guy Kawasaki is at it again, exciting people on the Web. If you haven’t checked out Alltop yet, you should take a look. There’s some really great content organized into a wide variety of topics (Get it? All topics? All the top stories?) on the site. For some unknown reason, Social Honeycomb made the cut and has a spot on the Women topic page.
So go, poke around, find something new… You know the deal. This is just another great way to find and join invigorating conversations.
Happiness
Everyone has bad days. Days when you question yourself and you feel like you just suck at life. I know I’ve been spending a lot of time blogging about communities on Twitter lately, but I have another example of this network coming together with kind words. I recently had an unhappy day and reached out to my community on Twitter, asking for inspiration and ideas about how to “happify” myself.
Susan Reynolds saw my happiness thread a couple weeks ago and requested that I write a post about the suggestions people had for me on how to feel happier each day. Here are my favorite responses:
@shonnoll says exercise
@thattalldude says listen to happy music
@mindchaotica and @linkedmn say to remember that things could always be worse
@cambeck says to become Joseph Jaffe
@iAlbert says to take a walk and be around nature
@geoffliving says happiness is an inside, spiritual job that external things can’t determine
@vanhoosear says learn to accept and let go
@podcastmama says to be kind to yourself, allow yourself to change your mind and get enough rest
@Paisano says to help people every day, engage in random acts of kindness and take naps
@jackvinson says to make a gratitude list
Building relationships and cultivating communities is central to our jobs as PR professionals and social media evangelists, and sometimes we get to see the strength of these social groups in ways that truly show how meaningful this stuff can be. Being a real person is SO important on the social Web. Asking, helping, advising, suggesting, being there for others. For me, I’m finding that being real and being happy go hand in hand.
If you have any suggestions of how to be happier, please post them in the comments section. Maybe we’ll all find some new ways to feel happier day-to-day.
Twitter, What Are You Doing?
Twitter has been a brat for the past couple days. I’m only getting a couple people’s updates, and I know I’m not the only one having problems. I feel so abandoned.
Boo, Twitter. You suck this weekend.
Because There Aren’t Enough Ways to Stalk What People Are Saying on Twitter…
There are about 47.3 billion Twitter apps to break down what people are saying, who they’re saying it to, where they’re saying it and how popular they are for saying what they say. But there’s always room for more, right?
I’ve seen some of my Twitter friends like Geoff Livingston, Greg Verdino and Matt Dickman talking about Tweet Clouds recently, so I checked the site out. It’s a cool way to visualize your most tweeted words.
What I find interesting as a PR person is that you can see the terms arguably most important to people as well as who they’re talking to most often. This gives us insight into who our influencers are and what things and people are central to their conversations. Tweet Clouds could end up being a visually interesting and useful way to get a better snapshot of who people are on Twitter.
Try this out. In the meantime, here’s my Tweet Cloud:
4×4 Pseudo-Secrets for Social
As I told John Wall, a little kidney infection isn’t stopping me from showing up at Blogger Social, which is only a week away now. I plan on being out in full force, wearing my obnoxiously sequined dress and painful strappy Enzos, ready to see and meet some super socialites. Tim Brunelle recently tagged me with the 4×4 meme in preparation for next weekend. So I’ve been sitting here, wondering if there are even 16 interesting things about me that I can share… Here goes:
4 Things I’m Proud Of
1. When I was 12, I heard about a junior high in Oklahoma whose school was trashed by a tornado, and they were trying to raise money so they could still have some big school dance. Since I knew I would be totally devastated if my big middle school dance was canceled, I saved my all babysitting money for a month and sent a check to the school.
2. I pulled off a big surprise dance number at The Dance Place, Inc.’s Susan G. Komen Benefit in November 2007 and also raised $1,150 on behalf of the studio for the cause.
3. I was able to graduate a semester early (with a job waiting for me!) from college with a strong GPA in a notoriously tough school.
4. I returned to dancing en pointe only four months after I broke my ankle/leg in three places. I’m TOUGH.
4 Countries I’d Like to Visit
1. Greece
2. India
3. Spain
4. Brazil
4 Albums That Defined My Adolescence
1. Brand New- Deja Entendu
2. Fiona Apple- When the Pawn…
3. Britney Spears- …Baby One More Time
4. Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
4 Things That Scare Me
1. Heights
2. This Under Armour commercial
3. Walking alone in the dark
4. Thriller movies, i.e. this.
I don’t tag people with memes, so that’s all, folks. Did you learn anything new about me? See you next Saturday!
