Sunday, September 28, 2014

How to Share On-Line Like a Pro

If I have a story to share, there are a lot of ways these days to share it. There is Facebook, twitter, google plus, Instagram, tumbler.. How do I choose which one to use for a particular story???
Let me explain my personal process.


If I care about something enough that I want to annoy my friends and possibly get some people to unfriend me: Facebook.

If I want no one I know to read it but a bunch of random people to weigh in on it: Google+

If I think it is somewhat relevant to what I care about but don't care if no one will read it ever: twitter.

It's a cool picture and I took it, I put it on Instagram and then depending on how awesome it is I will tweet it, put it on flickr, Facebook it or maybe if it is especially good, all three at the same time.

I never use tumbler: it's for nerds.

All others, are equally worthless.


As for hashtags?
Worthless on Facebook and Google+. 
May get a repost on twitter.
Awesome on Instagram to get people who I don't know to like my pictures.

Monday, September 8, 2014

San Diego-The Golden Cage





San Diego is a dumb town. It always was. Even JFK in the foreword to a book about San Diego History wrote that the people the Spaniards discovered here were beautiful but without much culture or art. It is the climate, it makes one laze. You do not have to work your butt off in the summer to store food for the winter so that you can survive. I've always known it but as I dove back into the dating pool recently, I've discovered that while I am naturally matched up to smart people, many of these smart people work dead end jobs in service industry where no degree is needed. Many of them came out here for the lifestyle but had aspirations of something more and as they sank into the culture of bros and hoes, they became complacent and lazy.

I've often said that San Diego is not a place where one comes to make money or become rich, it is a place to retire. I used to think that it was because it is an expensive place where it is hard to save. But now I think there's more to it. There's this relaxed work to live not live to work attitude here. When you do lots of things here you begin to stand out. You stop fitting in and you burn out from the sheer exhausting of fighting the flow of chill.

So back when I used to think that this is a paradise, I did not see the evil dark side of life draining effects. When I used to say with sarcasm: don't move here, it's horrible, the weather is always great and everyone is good looking, I am beginning to think that I should say the same thing, but without sarcasm: Don't move here, it's horrible, the weather is always great and everyone is always good looking.