Thinking about Facebook....

I like my relationship with Facebook. Pretty straightforward, I like catching up with old friends and I only get moderately annoyed by hearing from people I don't really care to catch up with. However, yesterday, someone I know was "friended" by a 62 year old friend of their parents. Now, I understand that Facebook has long become mainstream but, c'mon, really? It makes me think of going "silent" on all these networking sites. When Mom's friends start catching up...wow! I'm happy for the folks at Facebook but having serious reservations about my future participation....

Becoming an Amazon Shill...

So I'm reading Barry Schwartz's book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less and thinking about the steps I took to select Blogger versus of any of the other blogging options.  Turns out Barry is right, spending time looking at too many options is not useful and can be painful.  So rather than using the time to evaluate multiple blogging sites I picked one and used the free time to set up an Amazon Associates account.  Seriously, the book is great because he really gets you thinking about not only choice but how you spend your time. 

Click here to listen to Barry giving a talk on the book at TED.