Why I Don't Go On Facebook Much

Okay so I personally do not have a problem with Facebook. Granted all I ever did on Facebook was play games... constantly. And come up with fairly random status' via Status Shuffle... and wish people Happy Birthday.

But I haven't been on Facebook since October last year.

Why I hear you say?

Because my laptop and Facebook do not get on at all. If I go on Facebook and my laptop is plugged in then my laptop will overheat and close down. The first warning of which is the screen goes black... by which time it's too late to do anything about it. And that is even if I go on Facebook for a couple of minutes.

Why don't you just unplug your laptop, you ask?

Because Facebook also drains my laptop battery - which then require me to plug it back in and that results in the whole overheating problem again.

But I don't really miss Facebook... I feel a bit left out when there are competitions that involve Facebook... but then again I feel the same way about Twitter competitions as I don't have a Twitter account.

I'm guessing that my timeline will look a bit empty! (I read about the whole soon to be compulsory timeline thing - haven't actually seen it yet).

I don't think my laptop and Facebook will ever kiss and make-up though. And when choosing between the two I chose my laptop.

(And to anyone who suggests I go on Facebook at work - we were banned ages ago! Not surprisingly)

Random Thought #37 - Blogging Problems

I tried to unsubscribe from a blog (I will not name the blog). It's not that it's not a good blog, it just wasn't interesting me anymore.

So I unsubscribed... but every so often the blog in question reappears in my blog list - it's stalking me!

I recently found out that blogger intends to stop allowing you to subscribe to non blogger blogs using Google Friend Connect... perhaps that will sort out the problem.

The other problem I have is that on this blog (it doesn't do it on my writing blog for some reason) when I go to update my blog list down there on the right hand side when I click save it just sits there supposedly 'saving...'. in the end I have to click cancel otherwise I'd be there forever.

I thought maybe I should delete it and try adding the gadget again but then it just sits there 'deleting...' forever and a day.

I tried looking it up and discovered that other people have the same problem... but no one has an answer... yet.

Then I noticed that the list had vanished. So I tried adding it again. But it wouldn't seem to save. So I clicked the 'X' button to get rid of it and when I checked my layout it had saved it.

Confusion reigns!

Any weird technical problems happening round your blogs recently?

Blogging Leapfrog!

I've just had a little game of 'blogging leapfrog'. It's simple enough if you want to play.

1. Go to a blog that you follow.
2. Find where they have a list of blogs that they follow.
3. Click on one.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3...as many times as you like.

It takes you to some far flung places, and some not so far as well. The only problem is if you get to a blog where they don't have a list of blogs that they follow on their actual blog. That tends to stop you in your tracks.

And I've discovered a 'glitch in The Matrix'. On a couple of occasions I have been leapfrogging and have arrived at a blog that I find I like. I've clicked the follow button. It then prompts me to sign in to Google Friend Connect...but then won't let me sign in.

However if the blog in question has a 'follow' link at the top, up there with the 'dashboard' and sign in/out' buttons, then it lets me follow the blog straight away.

And Googling the problem only brings up people who are having the same problem...no solution.

But then I gave up looking pretty quickly...maybe someone with a higher level of patience when it comes to irritating problems would have better luck.