What’s up with this Twitter???

Have you ever wondered what this Twitter was all about. Twitter allows you to share the world around you in 140 characters or less.
There are companies that use it for promotional ideas such as:
Nikon Festival
They advertise specials, and promos, as well as information regarding the festival. You can keep up with athlete’s and celebrities such as Tony Hawk. You can find his twitter at:
Tony Hawk
You can see up in the top right hand corner that the account has been verified, meaning that it is Tony Hawk, the Pro skater’s account. Not some punk teenager thinking they are cool. You can read Tony Hawk’s post, and see what he is up to. One thing that is cool is that he is into creating fundraisers for skate parks.
Band’s use Twitter to promote their upcoming shows, and tours. You can check out one of these bands at:
We Came as Romans
They started a tour out and have been tweeting about the tour on every leg. They came through our home town, and they were amazing.
You can see the possibilities of Twitter. At first you think that you can’t really say much in 140 characters, but you would be surprised at what the possibilities are. There are also services as Twit Pic That will allow you to post a link to a picture in your Twitter status update.

If you would like to post a link in your status update you can use Tiny URL This will allow you to shrink a url to post into your Twitter status. That way you can have a link that is longer than 140 characters it will shrink it, and allow you to still post a comment.

With Twitter you can use it to keep in touch with friends, or family. You can use it to see what others are up to. and to keep other’s up to date on your status.

Is Twitter going to be the next Social Network, I don’t know however it’s starting to turn into a great Social Networking Tool. Maybe even better than Myspace, or Facebook.

Common Courtesy Is Not That Common

It’s interesting how the focal point has changed from a sense of community to self-preservation.

Take, for example, the jackass merger.  You know who I’m talking about.  When two lanes go into one, and traffic slows to a crawl, most people are trying to get over ahead of time to ensure they get over without causing a traffic jam.  There are kind people that will wait to let people go ahead of them, but then there are always several cars flying up  the now empty lane, desperate to get as far ahead before having to merge.  And then they get up right against the merge sign and slap on their blinker, waiting for some kind soul to let them in.

Fat chance that person is me.

Back in the day the whole town would get together for a barn-raising.  These people didn’t get anything out of it, they took off an entire day from the work that needed to be done around their own farm, and all just to help a neighbor out.  Because it’s the right thing to do.  That’s fantastic.  Sure, in times of emergency humanity has a great way of rallying around and providing service.  But what about every other day?  The person who is giving you aide in your time of need now may very well be the person you flipped off in traffic yesterday.

Obviously, not everyone is the jackass merger, and that’s fantastic, but I would like to return to a time when The Golden Rule ruled, a handshake might as well have been a notarized document, and your word really was your bond.

There are just too many people trying to fly ahead in life and push their way into success.  While the kind soul behind them is polite enough to make room for them.  There is a vast people in this country more than happy to mooch off the hard work of others.  They live in government subsidized housing, they take welfare and food stamps, receive Sub for Santa gifts, don’t pay taxes and certainly don’t have jobs.

They are ruining the purity of charity.  They are spoiling the act of a good deed when they take something that very well could have gone to someone really in need.

And to those people I say, you don’t deserve the air your breathe.

Finances, and the average person.

The average person from what I can see is always living from pay check to paycheck.  We are always trying to buy the biggest car, the best house, the best electronics, and so forth.  We are trying to one up the neighbors, as well as obtain everything that our parents have worked 30 years in obtaining.  I think part of the reason our economy is struggling so hard is because we all have a problem managing our finances.  I think we all in some degree or another are FISCALLY RETARDED!

If you are an average person working paycheck to paycheck trying to make it there is some hope for you.  I think one major thing that will help is if you have a fund that you can fall back on if you need to.  start out with saving $100 – $200.00 and then start saving up from there.   The purpose of this fund is for any time you have a struggle that you generally rely on Credit cards for.  This fund will replace your credit cards.   If you have a problem and you need to fix a leaky roof, or a flat tire.   You will use this fund, instead of going into more debt.

Second thing you can do is start paying off your debt.   Best thing to do is start with the smallest bill you have and pay as much on that as you can.  Once you have that paid off, you will need to put that money towards the next highest bill.  And continue the process till you have all your debt paid off.

Think of the money you can make once you don’t have any payments.  You can save up for big purchases, and start paying cash for those items.  You will have a much happier life.

I think if we can all work on this we could pull the economy out of the recession that we are in, and be able to thrive as a nation, as a people, as a continent, and as a world.