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Aloha, I'm Donna, known everywhere on the Internet as "Champuru." I'm a Christian, blissfully wedded to my perfect match (the yang to my yin) of 15 years and a stay-at-home mom to my miracle baby, born in October 2008. Living life in Hawaii, less than 5 miles from my hometown, seeking balance in her pursuit of family, faith, recreation, and rest. Read more on the About page.

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In the days before dot-net.

Friending Facebook friends who aren’t?

Recently on Twitter @problogger tweeted this:

“thinking of de friending everyone on facebook that I don’t know in real life and making it a personal page (http://bit.ly/9SdY1z) thoughts?”

To which I retweeted and responded, “I have been considering doing the same.”

Of course, Darren Rowse is wildly popular (for good reason), already having maxed out his friend limit on Facebook at 5000, while I have a mere 292 friends.  He is completely out of my league, but I could relate to his desire to separate one’s online/blogging presence from his personal one.

For one thing, you will be hard-pressed to find a photo of Hubby’s face on this site, as per his request. But, I frequently post photos of him on my Facebook page. After all, we have family and friends who use Facebook to keep in touch with us and they appreciate seeing current photos of the family.

While I don’t have very many people on my Facebook friends list that I haven’t met face-to-face, there are a few that I talk to regularly on Twitter that I consider “friends.”  I waver back and forth sometimes wondering what criteria I should use for the accepting of friends on Facebook. I have friends that fit into these categories:

  • Family
  • Close friends
  • Twitter/Blog friends that I have met in person
  • Twitter/Blog friends that I regularly talk to but have not met in person
  • People I have met somewhere along the way but don’t see anymore (former co-workers, old classmates, people I attended church with in the past, etc.)

I am thinking of de-friending some of the folks that probably do not care much about me personally, but merely requested my “friendship” to add another notch on their friend count. Of course, I am concerned that purging my friends list will offend people — but I am reevaluating my entire philosophy on sharing details of my life on the Internet.  That was prompted by yet another tweet, subsequent to my comment about Facebook. This one, by @kimonostereo who asked, “will you stop blogging?”

That question needs its very own blog entry entirely.  To be continued…

February 25th, 2010 | Category: daily, twitter | 4 comments

Terrific Twitter Tweeps

With over 18 million users on Twitter, there is bound to be a few gems out there, right?  A fellow blogger on StrawberryMayo.com and Twitter friend, @catskittyns sent me some very useful and thought-provoking links and I asked her if she had any cool tweeps (Twitter peeps) to recommend.  She suggested that we do a trade of five cool tweeps and why we like them — and post them to our blogs. Great idea!  Maybe I’ll even do this as a regular feature on the blog.

This week’s list is photography inspired, as I have been obsessing over the Canon 5D that I recently added to my camera arsenal. I may be armed, but I’m not yet dangerous — which is why I have been ravenously consuming as much information about photography and Photoshop as possible.  There’s so much to learn and tons of free information on the Internet. Twitter makes it easy to find great information without having to do the googling yourself.  Just follow a few good tweeps and you’re all set. So, here are a few of my favorites:

@digitalps – Digital Photography School tweets about photography tips, reviews and announcements of camera releases. One of their recent tweets about photographing tots and toddlers was especially helpful for me!

@petapixel – PetaPixel is a photography blog, a mashup of photography links from around the web.

@photoshoptips – Links to tutorials that will teach and inspire you to really delve into that robust, but sometimes difficult program, Photoshop.

@campphotoshop – Another great source for Photoshop tutorials and resources.

@Twitter_Tips – And a helpful tweep for the rest of you non-photography types: @Twitter_Tips is a good follow if you’re interested in learning the finer points of being a good Twitter user.

Are you on Twitter?  Leave me a comment with your @username and I’ll follow you.  Who are your favorite tweeps?  Do share!

If you’re interested in my 140 character stream of consciousness updates, my Twitter name is @champuru.

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February 8th, 2010 | Category: twitter | 2 comments