Facebook seems to be single-handedly destroying the fabric of social networking. The level of doubt in the operations of Facebook and its behind-the-scenes objectives seems to have all the members of Facebook asking serious questions about its privacy policies and what Facebook is actually doing with their information.
A couple of years ago Facebook was somewhat of a new face to the Internet. It provided social networking and the ability to connect with current and past friends.
But the current trends of Facebook seem to be much more diabolical and deceptive in nature. Faced with the fact that Facebook has so much personal information, and because that information can be exploited, and sold, it’s almost like the greed of the business has taken over the direction.
Just about everyone Instant Messages someone using any one of the Instant Messaging Services [Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Jabber]. The process of chatting with someone online is fun, but if there’s a business side to it, you may find your self repeating some of the same old phrases.
And while you may completely understand the information your providing, thinking it’s understandable, the person on the other end may not understand what ‘RTFM’ means.
This is why I created a Free program/application that will expand over 1200+ Instant Message abbreviations to help with making communications clearer without changing how you chat now.
Recently Facebook announced that he was opening up access to its chat protocol. this means that just about any instant messenger using the jabber protocol and interface with Facebook. This makes much more sense than having to try to maintain so many different types of interfaces and protocols just for instant messaging.
The Jabber protocol supports so many different functions and its universal, and it’s free. there’s no reason not to utilize that protocol; it’s been long enough and it’s time to standardize.
I wish all the major IM providers would start to understand that the old instant messengers and their proprietary protocols are becoming the way of the past.
I read this article today about how Mozilla Thunderbird is coming together and they’re working on the ‘Universal Inbox’; this is SO MUCH what everyone needs.
And I agree with a lot of what it has to say.
I was discussing this with a friend of mine the other day about this very same problem and he posted a link to RainDrop and it’s a very good point.
People are communicating in all kinds of portals, Instant Message, email, forums, Twitter, Facebook…. the list goes on.
There has to be a way to make sense of it all- maybe Raindrop and be that answer.
It’s true the guys over an eMclient are making some serious progress. In my email exchanges they have indicated they’re ‘…seriously busy’ and kudos for all the efforts and their accomplishments.
I’m a big fan of eMclient; I really want to see it succeed and flourish, but one thing about it has in common with other free and open source projects, the programmers usually can’t produce documentation was well as they can write the code.
And you know these guys are using eMclient right now, they’re coding it and they know every inch of how it works, but releasing it in to the wild with average users…
You might as well have released a $50 special jigsaw puzzle, of rock garden, to a 3yr old…
I’m not messing with an Operating System that’s got such an issue with getting a browser to work. Ubuntu us a great Operating System, but damn, it’s not supported enough.
I give props to all the people that are really pushing it and I’d love to step away from Microsoft Windows, but the fact is that Windows is supported in one form or another, this version or that and has greater support for a myriad of hardware.
My example, Ubuntu is making great strides and infiltrating portable Internet devices, but it’s almost like it’s too specific. People can’t deal with it’s complexities, nuances and command line requirements; the average user is not jumping through hoops to install FLASH. They want to click and install it…
I’ve already posted that I think ISP’ are going to change to to ‘media company’, but the more interesting thing is the communication lines like telephone.
Instant Message services have been offering VOIP for years with their services, but now the major carriers are finding out they can have VOIP and just about anyone with an Internet connection can have phone service.
Remote desktop connections to someone’s machine is always, in my opinion, the best and quickest way to resolve a issue.
A lot of the time terminology is the worst enemy in tech support. Being able to see what the other person is talking about makes support so much easier.
In most situations, you turn to those you know for help. If you’re working with family or friends and you need a way to connect in to their machine to help them, I can offer some suggestions.
O P T I O N S
TEAMVIEWER This is an excellent application for remote support. It has two wonderful flavors, USB [portable] and standard, where you can install it like any other traditional application.
Free for Personal use.
LOGMEIN This option offers a very robust option set for those who do remote support often.
YUUGUU Yuuguu’s approach to screen-sharing goes straight through your instant messaging clients, although they’re not required to run the program. It’s a multiprotocol messaging program that supports the biggest IM services—Yahoo, MSN, Google, AIM, ICQ, and Skype.
SCREENSTREAM One of the main advantages of ScreenStream is that the viewers do not need to install any special software to view your screen. They just open it directly with their normal internet browser.
ULTRAVNC UltraVNC is an easy remote support program to use, but it’s not without requirements of adjusting a firewall.
Facebook seems to be single-handedly destroying the fabric of social networking. The level of doubt in the operations of Facebook and its behind-the-scenes objectives seems to have all the members of Facebook asking serious questions about its privacy policies and what Facebook is actually doing with their information.
Just about everyone Instant Messages someone using any one of the Instant Messaging Services [Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Jabber]. The process of chatting with someone online is fun, but if there’s a business side to it, you may find your self repeating some of the same old phrases.
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