Facebook got me
My friend Laura noodged me into joining FaceBook 'cause she's there. Being an occasional lemming, I caved without much struggle, and added FaceBook to my list of web haunts (and bookmarks) today. If you're on FaceBook, too, look me up and let's be friends; you can find me by searching Shelli Heinemann.
Turns out, FaceBook is a cool little tool for networking and reconnecting and other stuff like passing around completely meaningless, hysterical videos. Plus, I was able to look up friends through other friends in a six-degrees-of-separation kind of way; it was, admittedly, very cool to see faces I haven't seen in 20 years or more!
Along the way, as I familiarized myself with this newest time-suck/diversion, I stumbled across many a FaceBook widget, the most silly-good-girly-fun of which is, without question, StyleFeeder. This nifty little tool takes you to stylefeeder.com where you are asked to select a few items that appeal to your shopping tastes. Then, the site builds a virtual shopping list of items tailored to your choices, featuring items that strangers who like what you like, have chosen. Thus, the entire purpose of StyleFeeder is to expose you to heaping hoardes of cute stuff you want but don't really need, encouraging ever more avenues through which you can quickly spend your hard earned cash. What every girl needs.
I added StyleFeeder to my FaceBook profile and also to the bottom left of my blog. I decided it would be a great place not just to bookmark what I think is uber-cute, but also, what inspires; wish-list items I can't currently afford; and just plain kewl stuff that makes me smile, whether I'd actually ever buy/wear it or not.
Having said that, I really am jonesing hard for the Calvin Klein periwinkle bedding and those awesome julidadesigns wire-wrap earrings. Some things never change.
Hope you're happy and well. And please, do look me up on FaceBook. Can't wait to see you there!
in terms of privacy and facebook you may find this interesting Shelli - http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/
Posted by: Melissa | March 17, 2008 at 07:22 PM
Informative and useful, Melissa; thanks so much for the headsup. I adjusted my privacy settings on FaceBook so that no third party website info will be sent to my profile. As it should be! :)
Posted by: Shel | March 18, 2008 at 08:58 AM