What Your Favorite Social Network Says About You

Read the full article here, but below are some highlights:

Facebookers

They are more likely to be married (40%), white (80%) and retired (6%) than users of the other social networks. They have the second-highest average income, at $61,000, and an average of 121 connections.

Twitters

They’re more likely to be employed part-time (16% vs. 11% average), have an average income of $58,000, and average 28 followers and 32 other Twitterers they’re following. They’re not particularly attached to the site, though — 43% said they could live without Twitter.

MySpacers

The content MySpace users put up is most often about specific hobbies, or pictures of family and friends. Their average income is the lowest, at $44,000, and they have an average of 131 connections. They’re more likely to be black (9%) or Hispanic (7%) than users of the other social sites. They are also more likely to be single (60%) and students (23%).

LinkedIn Users

It’s probably no surprise these guys are all about business. We say guys because LinkedIn has the only user group with more males than females (57% to 43%). They have the highest average income, at $89,000, and are more likely to have joined the site for business or work, citing keeping in touch with business networks, job searching, business development and recruiting as top reasons.

I sometimes use Twitter, no so much for updating, but just checking out what some friends and celebrities are up to, and to see what kind of promotions my favorite businesses touting.

I refuse to become a part of MySpace or FaceBook, because I don’t want anyone to easily find me.  With that said, I’m tempted to be a part of LinkedIn for a professional standpoint, but just concerned someone from my past just wants to get in touch with me.

In case you are wondering, it’s not that I’m necessarily trying to hide from people in my past, but I get tired and annoyed of all the small talk when you get in touch with someone you haven’t seen in a while.  I prefer having relationships of substance, and if we haven’t kept in touch in all these years, then we really weren’t that close of friends to begin with.  And besides, I commit my Internet time to this blog and don’t have time for the other stuff.

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Bag of Randomness

  • Yesterday was a long day, I ended up working an extra four hours at work.
  • And then I had to come home and try to repair our bed.
  • How did our bed break?  Well, a friend is painting the bedroom as a favor to us and he shoved it a bit too hard.
  • Nothing a little J.B. Weld can’t fix.
  • I hope.
  • McCartney on Letterman, returning to the Ed Sullivan Theater, was pretty cool.
  • He had a good “magazine dropping” line last night.
  • Being someone who really didn’t know much about him, he came across as very charming.
  • McCartney played outside on the marquee, and the crowd outside was just massive.  I found some great pictures that were recently uploaded to Flickr.
  • I remember the first time I saw him, I think it was on an MTV awards show where he made a surprise appearance, and I wondered why everyone was cheering for the old man no one knew.
  • I’m going to have to work Saturday.  Blerg.
  • The Dallas Morning News has this new feature called the Problem Tracker.  It’s a way for people to report problems such as potholes, graffitti, broken stop lights, etc in a GoogleMaps format.
  • I like the idea of nurses tweeting from the operation room so that family members can follow.  Link
  • Speaking of Twitter, someone from the audience now tweets during the Price is Right.  Link
  • Jimmy Valvano died back in 1993, and ESPN continues to honor his legacy.  That’s a very cool thing.
  • NASA will let you send your name to Mars free of charge.  Link
  • Can Twitter Kill Your Church
  • A bit of a dark joke: Helen Keller Simulator
  • As a kid, I remember hearing a lot of Helen Keller jokes, and laughing even though I didn’t know who she was.
  • The same thing happens to us Texas – We all don’t wear boots and cowboy hats, or ride horses to work.
  • When reporting about banks, the media should use more specific terms such as commercial banks and investments banks to help their audience.  I’m guessing someone without a finance or banking background can get easily confused and wouldn’t know what bank is which.  I mention this with all the talk of Goldman Sachs in the news the last couple of days.
  • I’m not saying dumb down the news, but the audience needs a little guidance every now and then.
  • For my fellow Star Wars fans: Wookieepedia
  • For you Davey and Goliath fans, here are the lost episodes.
  • I just recently found out they were part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
  • Grace
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A Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill

With a bill that large, he should have waited for KRLD Restaurant Week.

A North Texas man has a 17-figure credit card statement after a bank glitch resulted in an eye-popping charge.

This is what it looks like: $23,148,855,308,184,500.00.

Here’s how to say it: 23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184,000 and 500 dollars.

It’s more than 2,000 times the national debt — and, according to Jon Seale’s online credit card statement, it’s what he spent July 13 at Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck.

“For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself,” Seale said.

Seale, a husband and father of five from Trophy Club, spent much of Tuesday making calls to Wachovia and Visa in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. Both companies told him they were working to resolve the issue.

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