Twitter

But is God on Facebook?

29 June 2011

News just out is that God’s number one man on earth, The Pope, has just sent his first tweet.

Sources aren’t clear but we are mostly certain it wasn’t a request for Hell Pizza in 140 characters or less. Apparently the new Twitter account, under the jazzy handle @news_va_en  was tapped out onto an ipad by the 85 year old, Pope Benedict.

The tweet won’t win any copywriting contests, simply saying -  “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”  Read more... (459 words, 2 images, estimated 1:50 mins reading time)

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I heard it on the grapevine

2 May 2011

Or at least the 21st Century version – Facebook.

Osama Bin Laden is dead, Facebook told me at about 10am this morning (when I woke…whaaaat? It’s the last day of the bank holiday weeked!). In amongst the news about friends’ birthdays and bloggy witticisms about ‘what’s in my fridge’ there was this curious headline…

Bin Laden is dead.

To be honest, I didn’t feel relief. I didn’t feel the whole world just became ‘safer’ as Obama later claimed. I did what I often do when I’m disconcerted, or downright frightened; I poked my Englishman in the ribs and woke him up.  Read more... (577 words, 1 image, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

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I confess I am a Tw*t

4 October 2010

I disagree David Cameron! Too much tweeting does NOT make you a twat. Vegemitevix is a Twitterholic

It makes you a twit! It may even make you a Twitterholic!

I was doing my nightly thing in the kitchen tonight, getting all hot and steamy, sorting out the sausages and smashing the mash, when my Englishman called me over to have a look.

‘Vix, look. Look.’

For God’s sake man I’m playing with your sausage.

On the TV there was a story about how popular Twitter and Facebook have become.

Quelle surprise!  Read more... (902 words, 1 image, estimated 3:36 mins reading time)

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Miss Manners in the Facebook age

1 September 2010

I’ve been thinking a great deal about decorum.

Maybe that’s because someone recently intimated I don’t have any. I think I do, but obviously my definition may be different from my elderly parents or parents-in-law, or at the other extreme, my children’s.

Miss Manners where are you in the social media age?

Exactly what is the appropriate way for someone – a blogger, a writer, a wife, a mother – to behave online and offline?  Read more... (1374 words, 1 image, estimated 5:30 mins reading time)

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Are You Over-friendly?

21 July 2010

Sorry I have no room.

No room in my digital little black book for any more. I’ve got those who’ll cry big wet tears with me when times are bad, those who’ll take the piss with me. There are others who are a little opportunistic. I know they’re hanging on in case I should ever be useful to them.

There are those who’ve picked me up off the floor when I was so wretched I could not even stand. I have drinking buddies and bloggy mates, and old school friends, and Facebook extended family and fans (of the blog not neccessarily of me!)  Read more... (841 words, 1 image, estimated 3:22 mins reading time)

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Twitter’s Social Losers

8 July 2010

You’ve been trying to hide the L on your forehead with your fringe.

Or combover.

You may as well give it up, we all know you’re an addict. A twit.

And ergo….

A social loser sporting a playstation tan, and an inability to converse in sentences of more than 140 characters.

We understand you rise, check twitter on your smartphone, then go through the morning’s abolutions. You have no real friends. Your friends are head and shoulders only, or perhaps a purple image of  a bird. When you meet people you invariable punctuate your emotional response through LOL, or smilies.  Read more... (400 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

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Long-haired Creepy People are following me!

7 June 2010

Don’t look! Just turn your head slowly and don’t look into his eyes!

DON’T LOOK!!

I’m being followed.

I am. NO I am not paranoid. Well maybe a tad. But I am being followed. By long-haired creepy people, on Twitter. Over 464 people are following me. I know it’s not a huge number. That’s probably because I block the truly scary ones.

The ones who wish to introduce me to illegal substances, or crap games or instant money making schemes that involve selling my first born for Twitter love.  Read more... (760 words, 1 image, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

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Things I’ve learnt working at home

14 May 2010

What a response to yesterday’s post about how I’m never going back to the workplace.

Many people said they completely understood and told how they were trying to make the best of balancing home life and work. Some folk agreed that there’s no easy answer, and some even suggested that the myth of the working woman having it all – being wife, mother, career – is exactly that a myth!

Ouch! (I still can’t believe that. Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus!)
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Thank you for being a friend

27 April 2010

A box full of wonderful things appeared on my doorstep today.

It was full of promises….

A mysterious box from a friend

Dreams…………

Dreams - the success principles

and even a fantasy or two!

fantasies!

How to make a girl smile!

It was just brilliant.

Despite being held up by volcanic ash, my pressie from Susie at newdaynewlesson reminded me that you often make friends when you least expect it.Thank you Susie. Sorry about the photography, I was trembling with excitement.

Last year when I started blogging, I was feeling incredibly isolated. I’d moved across the world, and couldn’t seem to befriend anyone. Perhaps it was the ‘SOD OFF’ look printed on my forehead in indelible marker?  Read more... (389 words, 3 images, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

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Take no prisoners

25 March 2010

“You know what would be really helpful?

“If you actually got off your arse and did your job!

“Stop taking the clients to lunch and start closing some deals!”

I didn’t see the fist. Thankfully it just missed my chin. I could however see the whites of the Sales Manager’s eyes.

They were white with fury!

I was the young Brand Manager on a hell-bent take-no-prisoners course to the top.

I wince when I think back about how I handled the situation, and the way I didn’t handle myself. My only excuse? I was young and ambitious.  Read more... (889 words, 1 image, estimated 3:33 mins reading time)

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