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Friendster Revamped - Facebook Clone?

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Have you visited your Friendster account lately?

Friendster now has a new homepage! It basically looks more funky with all the graphics and stuff, and GREEN-er... It also changed it's logo into something more creative and new, still with the smiley though; and the favicon? New too! Correct. It's green.

New features have also been added, like a virtual wallet, where you get virtual money to use in its virtual giftshop. They now also have a lot of games - even farming ones like farmtown and farmville - and in interactive shoutout stream, which looks more and more like the Facebook wall! New and improved photo uploading and viewing, and of course, a faster and better way to share your photos.

Sound like a clone yet? For your curiosity's sake, if you haven't logged into your Friendster.com account, here's how it looks like when you click on the HOME tab.

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GIBO - Still in Cebu City

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Apparently, it's not only Gibo's survey numbers that went up - so did the number of my blog's subscribers! Yipee!!!

The post was about Gibo being here in Cebu City to attend the Vice Mayor's league of the Philippines' fellowship night. Guess a lot of people are following Gibo Teodoro's whereabouts. So to not keep you waiting,

Gibo is still in Cebu City making his rounds, he's visiting Cebu Institute of Technology and the University of the Visayas.

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A BLESSED Morning, thanks Sponsoredreviews.com!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:43:00 +0000

It's really nice to start your day looking at a very lovely email that says, I've been paid! harhar!

That's not so passive of an income, but didn't take much time, but murdered a handful of braincells though. But at least, it really made me happy. Especially upon seeing this:

Heaven. or at least the tip of it.. This isn't such a big sum yet, but with more entries... Well, Sponsored Reviews is such an angel. Got all of that from just 2 posts in two weeks. Nice, huh?

Why don't you join too? Or even ask for a review from me? Hehe.

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The Real Britney Voice

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:10:00 +0000

Do you really wanna know how Britney Spears sounds in real life, during her concerts when she thinks her mike is muted, and she's thinking that she's just lip synching? (If this is a word...)

Here it is. Sorry if you actually bought an original britney spears album.

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Gibo in Cebu City

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:15:00 +0000

Heads' up for the supporters of Gibo here in Cebu City. He's gonna be here to attend the Vice Mayors' League of the Philippines Fellowship Night.

*wala lang,...*

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Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow 101, 102

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:41:00 +0000

Tom and I have been spending a rather sizable chunk of our free time playing Cashflow 202. We have both Cashflow 101 and 202, but I'm speaking for the both of us when I say I like 202 better. It's more "challenging".

You can see Tom's evident like of the game since he refers to commonplace expenses such as taxi fare, green mangoes, movies, and even an ice cream stick as "Doodads".

Anyway, did you know that there's also a website called Rich Woman? It's more tailored for women and our needs. To visit the site, go to www.richwoman.com.

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No Need to Resign

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:37:00 +0000

Alliances are strong, huh?

It says in this news bit that the SC justices in an en banc session today with an 8-6 vote said that encumbent government officials need not resign from their posts upon filing of COCs (Certificate of Candidacy) for next year's election.

I never really understood why they needed to resign in the first place. At least this goes with the earlier ruling that actors and actresses filing their COCs need not stop their projects since it's their profession. Hmm. Consistent? Or scheming?

:)

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Wishful Thinking

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:31:00 +0000

This --> here <-- is wishful thinking.

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Food is a Basic Need

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0000

If you're a new-hire, haven't received any pay yet and all employees are privileged to have free lunch, will it not bother you that you're ID (used to certify that you can avail of the free lunch) is NOT working at all?!

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TRANSLATIA: Knowing Languages Makes Money

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:23:00 +0000

Many of my friends in Facebook come from different countries and a lot of their posts are done in their native language. I also see some advertisements for the online translation for their websites, blog posts, homework, and everything else. But did you know that there's already a group for these kind of needs? And it's an opportunity not only to make money, but to connect to other people around the globe too!

Translatia grows the largest network of translators in the world where clients get their contents translated from or to any major languages. All jobs are done by the translators who possess the necessary subject expertise, from business, finance to electronics and mechanics. Plus, they ensure 100% customer satisfaction since you will not be asked to pay if you're not satisfied at all with the translation done.

In Translatia, you can get your online translation to or from major languages around the world done by the top-notch professionals at very very affordable prices. The transactions are secure, fast and easy too. All you have to do is register and you're good to go. And it's not just words or paragraph translations, you can also try out brand translations, name translation and even business card translations!

So translate your way to a new product line, a new love, a new business, or a new past time. It's just about totally worth it.

Interested? Be a member of the Translatia network too, click on any of these images and register now!

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I Need to.

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:59:00 +0000

I really need to be serious now.. Don't you think?

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Never Gonna Be Alone

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:19:00 +0000

If ever.... I was forced to redo my whole wedding... (I used the word forced, because by choice, I wouldn't redo anything!)... I'd make sure that it was nicer for my family, and Tom's too. I wouldn't let anything, I mean not a single thing, get between myself and my family enjoying and imprinting this memory on our curly brains. Why would I say that?

Because... there were just too many nuisances during my wedding day! One thing is that mom and dad were just not acting normal. Mom was too silent, too zombie-ish. Dad was like, "Is Gov ok? Is Cong ok?".. Grrrhh. {Sorry, but it did get into my nerve later that day...You know what happened.} And as I see it, making himself too busy to notice the feeling of losing her daughter to his now son-in-law. Hmmm. It was also not so memorable for Tom's parents, except for the fact that they were too busy directing car pool and directing the crazy waiters where to bring the food. yes, the waiters were almost useless majority of the time.

But then again... Everything was really very good. I think all of those were already planned and there reallyw as nothing we could've done to prevent them.

Anyway, if we were even allowed to do a wedding dance, I would have chosen Butterfly Kisses for my Dad and I... or maybe this:

or this:

Nickelback's Never Gonna be Alone... If it can be slow-danced to, you know. Harhar.

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Long-Time Offline

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:17:00 +0000

If I'm offline for more than 8 hours, that may mean two things: I don't have internet access or I'm oversleeping.

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Ooooh! A Surprise Comment!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:03:00 +0000

It felt a bit amusing to be surprised by a "surprise" comment on one of my posts. I was just editing some posts to have updates included in them and tweeting them out when I noticed a link to a new comment, and viola! It was actually an unsolicited "comment" which was, in reality, a cry for help in spreading the word about their advocacy, that is, the Philippine Climate Adaptability Challenge.

So here's what exactly was written:

Hi,

This is Gladys Arañez and I’m one of the volunteers for Design Against The Elements. We are asking for your support to please help us spread our message in raising awareness re: Philippine Climate Adaptability Challenge. Please take time to visit the links below and please post comments and ratings. Below also is a message from our Executive Director, Illac Diaz.

Feel free to ask questions. You can reach me on my email: gladys_79@yahoo.com

Many, many thanks! :)

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Climate change is real. Addressing climate change requires a mix of mitigation and adaptation. This requires more mitigation for industrialized countries and more adaptation for developing countries.

This can be translated into one simple scenario : While the industrialized world continues to send up tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, whether or not we blur the amounts through carbon credits, hopes are fading for those who will be receiving the sharp end of the Damocles sword; the developing world. The urgency is to realize that this is not going to stop at 350 ppm, or even double at 600 ppm, the Philippines has to realize that despite all the petitions and feel good campaigns of dreams for a climate stabilized world, real solutions need to be done. We have to get to the part where we learnto start dealing with this. The country is located right beside the warmest parts of the ocean that is in the perfect storm of vulnerable coastlines, intense winds, and an observation of growing dumping of large amounts of rain.

We need to live in a world where climate will hit the poorest of the poor first, regardless of where they live, it will test our resiliency as a city, as a village, as a community, and specially as a people. This song is dedicated to the awareness that dealing with one ONDOY is not the victory, but a climate of change will be the battle of this generation.

Illac Diaz
Executive Director
Design Against The Elements

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She even included a link to the music video which, I think, sounded good. :)

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Have Fun this Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:45:00 +0000

37 more days to go, and it's Christmas. I really don't want to think that I will be breaking a Christmas family tradition by not going home to my parents' house, but Tom and I really have to think about it sooner or later. Hmm, and this includes the finances... eeek!

This going home thing has been a yearly tradition particularly since I went off to other places to study, like Davao City for high school and Cebu City for college - so Christmas was something to look forward to.

For example, I'm always tasked to buy those round fruits - 13 of them if possible - but most of the time I just manage to bring 3 or 4 kinds, but mom doesn't seem to give too much attention to which ones. Personally I prefer bringing grapes since I can get one or two pieces every now and then. hehe.

Aside from the fruits and shirts and whatnots that I bring home, I also look forward to what activities are in store for everyone. Usually the cousins and myself go to Tita Ruby's house and take turns playing games or PSP. Sometimes I just prefer to be the nuisance since I'm the eldest. I love annoying other cousins 'til they cry. So bad, right?

Anyway, there were also times when the whole family stayed up late just talking in groups around one big dinner table, sometimes they take out the videoke thing and all those gifted with non-irking voices sing their hearts out, sometimes we play parlor games, like last Christmas when they even did Maria Went to Town. There were also times when group games like charades, scrabble, chikicha, tong-its and bingo were lined up. But this time... Hmm... Since there's a possibility that I won't be there physically... How about online games?
Online poker or online bingo? Anyone? :)

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Want $75,000?!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:35:00 +0000

Starting on November 16, 2009 (I know, my post is a bit late, but at least you get a chance to see it!) until the end of the year, PayPal will be giving away cash and prizes every week to your buyers during their thirteen, yes, thirteen (13) PayPal CrazyHours. Each time customers pay with PayPal they will be eligible to win – meaning, the more they spend, the more they can win!

For details about the said CrazyHour specials, just go to PayPal CrazyHour or click on that GIF image just below my blog header. :)

This just may have been your chance to win $75,000.

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My TOP 6 Posts for November!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:51:00 +0000

Yay!

I'm so glad to have a feedburner account - I can see how my posts are doing! And to let you all know, here are my TOP 6 posts for the first week of November....

Facebook Maintenance Conspiracy Theory

Dakota Fanning Being Normal

Farmville Friend Fertilizers Dairy Farm

First Online Grocery in Cebu City - BILIVERY.COM

Mariah Carey - A Big Girl Now

Internal Auditing means Using Your Brain

There are more posts, so feel free to roam around... ^.^

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Unauthorized Office Entry

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Once again, someone tried...

And this time, failed.

*smirk* Good thing I withdrew all our keys from the Security office, or else, our very trusty Security people would have gladly opened the doors to our somewhat restricted office to anyone who bids them a soft-voiced anonymous plea to "Sir, would you please open the CIAD office?" at 7am in the morning.

Blech. Darn Security people are getting rusty.

ps. CIAD reads Corporate Internal Audit Department.

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First Online MALL in Cebu City - BILIVERY.COM

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:32:00 +0000

UPDATED:

I stand, mean post, corrected by the proponents themselves. BILIVERY.com is not just an online grocery store, it's gonna be a whole MALL. And by the word "mall" they really mean MALL - with music stores, hardware stuff, clothes, gadgets, appliances, pharmacy, bookstore, etc, etc, etc.! Got it?

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Wondering what's a unique gift to give this Christmas? {Everyone's problem!}
How about, a unique way to give a common gift? Sounds better?

First in Cebu City, a fully online grocery store that will deliver your purchased items right into your doorstep! (Or the doorstep of your family, friends, loved ones, or complete strangers for the Christmas spirit.)

Bilivery.com first and foremost caters to the busy working moms who would conveniently and readily choose to have their groceries delivered than fight with the grueling traffic of day-to-day commute, especially at times when almost all of the working population is on the road.

Using Bilivery.com is so easy - with a site that's very user friendly:

Register for an account to start using the services of bilivery.com, click on the LOGIN link at the upper right hand part of the window/site and this will appear: (click on images to enlarge)

Click on the create an account to start you registration, you will be directed to this window for your details:

After confirming your account, you can start picking out your items. It's good to note that Bilivery.com has tabs for grocery item categories like Grains, Fruits & Vegetables, Spices, and even an Available Soon category to help inform us of upcoming items that will soon be sold in the online grocery store.

As you can see on the following image, I have marked (actually, I have made this picture a bit messy, sorry Badz! haha!) just to make it "easier" for you to identify important parts of the site that you will surely be looking for:

There's an Admin or User panel where you can see the links you would really want to click time and time again, just click on the image above to enlarge it.

Bilivery.com also boasts of an online agent that will guide you through your online grocery experience, who is available almost all the time - with a valid landline number you can contact anytime between 9AM to 6PM Philippine time for help with registration, your payments, and whatnots. Also, for a more formal guide in starting up with Bilivery.com, you can go straight from this article to their Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ page. Or if you're already on the site while reading this, like on a separate tab or something, you can access the FAQ page by clicking on that delivery guy on your right.

Plus, you can be updated with their services, changes with prices, new items, new categories, promos and other perks by signing up for a Newsletter, that's the box at the left side.

And before we end this crazy post, let me help you decide by giving you some of the advantages of using Bilivery.com's online grocery system - and FYI, this is not a paid post and most likely, majority of these are all my own:

If you're busy, this is convenient.
If you're an OFW or an OCW and you want to ensure that your family is complete with their basic needs and that no other relative or whoever is meddling with your kids' food supply, bilivery.com is perfect as you can order the items, pay for it via credit card or Paypal and have it delivered straight to your doorstep for a fixed charge of Php140 only. (So far, regardless of the distance from the headquarters to your door, the delivery charge is set at Php140. Please note that as of this post, bilivery.com's delivery only applies to areas within Metro Cebu, and delivery within the day for Banilad, Mandaue, MEZ I & II, within Cebu Business Park & IT Park. For other details, go back to their FAQ.)
If your company is strict and you can't go out of the premises anytime then your kids call you saying, Mom/Dad, we have no milk and cookies and lola's snoring so loud the walls are vibrating! - Ok, that's a bit exaggerated, but heck, that would do it, right?
Your place is too far from civilized traffic, you have to commute and the taxi fare is just about equal to Php140, then better use bilivery.com, hence, only the delivery guys will endure the traffic. ;)
You're a good guy/gal and you always want to help other business people, then go help us by using bilivery.com!
You're a skeptic, and just want to try this new service out.
You're stoic. But you just kept on reading this write-up, why not go farther and try it out?
You're also a businessman and you want a supplier, you can contact the guys from bilivery.com and strike up a contract!
I ran out of ideas. Just try it out!

Want to give one sack of rice for Christmas? or want to give a sachet of black pepper as a little prank for your colleague? Bilivery.com just might be your answer.

I just hope Blogger.com won't mind the similarity in color scheme:

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Mariah Carey - A Big Girl Now

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:26:00 +0000

Yes, ladies, she's a big girl now. She usually looks so fit and toned, is this part of a role? or is she letting go now?

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Facebook Maintenance Conspiracy Theory

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:19:00 +0000

It's been day 2, I think, of this erratic activity from Facebook -

"Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Can it be?

This thought has just been a few seconds old as I'm typing this, and I'm still continuing to develop the theory, or at least the base of it...

It's really quite possible that Facebook wants to get its actual, or at least the near-the-truth actual figure of really how many users are registered and active in their use of Facebook. Sounds logical?

There has been an article already published here and another stat page from Facebook itself, trying to analyze the site traffic, usage clicks, status updates and whatnots - sorry I didn't read everything... But what if the developers of Facebook just want to update their stats while "offline" and actively determine how many of these users are quite dependent on their facebook accounts? For business communication, family affairs, keeping touch with friends or just spying on ex-boyfriends. What if they just want to know how many of these facebook fanatics and addicts will try with all their might to directly contact facebook people and complain about the extended "site maintenance"?

Hmmm? How about that? What do you think?

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Dakota Fanning Being Normal

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:13:00 +0000

"This may hurt just a little."

Yet the New Moon star knows just how to be normal. (Is it normal to be a member of the cheerleading squad?)

She was even elected as one of the Princesses of the Homecoming Court. How cute. :)

Anyway, off to a meeting I go... lol!

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Internal Auditing means Using your Brain

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:03:00 +0000

This has been a dilemma for so long - making other people understand how literally brain-rattling and mind-boggling Internal Auditing is. At least in our company.

A lot of people have long since underestimated our department, and so far, I have grown tired of trying to prove them wrong - because I have just realized that I need not try. They ARE wrong.

Internal auditing has been a burden and a blessing. A blessing for it flexes our brain tissues, wears out our thinking caps, and even tires our logic and rational thinking, which they cannot get from simply doing the same thing everyday - checking receipts, updating their excel files, saving, printing, typing, updating the system, depositing the cash, coming back, typing again, saving, printing, going home. A blessing for it allows us to exercise judgment and character analysis, profiling people we meet just like in Criminal Minds. A blessing for it develops our grammar, improves our sentence construction, polishes our writing skills - for who else can concisely and precisely convey 5 thoughts in one sentence, with formality and classic elegance yet exudes authority and wisdom.

But at times, our work becomes a burden. Biologically, for it kills more brain cells than normal people do, exposes us more to light and radiation thanks to our nifty laptops. Wears our finger joints and makes us prone to arthritis from too much typing and clicking. Burdensome, for at times we face our enemies, give them smiles despite our earnest desire to stay away. We need a more modulated voice while talking to people just so they won't think they are being apprehended for pulling down the Eiffel tower, a straight face while watching them tell a lie and miserably sucking at it.

It's a heavy thing to carry - our burdens - because with these are the stares and the glares of people who do not understand. Who cannot and may not ever grasp the fact why we exist. Why we do what we do and do them the way we do. Who, for the love of God, cannot even start to comprehend why we look as if we're not doing anything, just sitting around staring at our screens or staring at the ceiling. They may not realize that inside our steady heads are the huge brains working overtime, trying, looking for even the tiniest loopholes that every other executive has failed to see.

We appear to be just chatting around or relaxing, holding that glass of cold water or mug of hot coffee - the only time they say they see us come out of our fortress. They see us talk to others, with a smile and an open joke that we laugh at every now and then. Or walking towards the mess hall or from the buffet area full from the "perks of our position". But they don't understand. These were just the times, the very short ones, that we consider as breaks, the time we interact with the outside world we tend to forget while deciphering, discerning, the facts of cases even investigators can't crack open. These are the links we keep alive, the very same links we get "useless" news from. So useless they help us understand the connections between who we are talking to and who we really need to talk to. What we are looking at against the thing we really need to look into.

But they don't understand. Instead they say our work is so easy that routine tasks you can do while sleeping is nastier. That adding figures is so much more challenging than convincing a manager that he has in fact bent rules and thinking it's fine. That saving files and printing them to be filed up in boxes is more interesting than interviewing five to six people and merging their stories to determine who really was at fault. That being busy typing and marking papers and receipts is more rewarding than figuring out how to help their company, OUR company, save hundred and hundreds of pesos every month.

Use your brain. Even just for a short while. Even for a minute a day. Try to understand - why internal auditing means using your brain.

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Farmville Friend Fertilizers & Dairy Farms

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:40:00 +0000

Have you noticed the updates on Farmville? Try visiting a neighbors farm and you'll see these icons at the bottom left of your farmville window, these are the fertilizers. You get them by helping out friends in their farms performing missions like pulling out weeds, shooing away foxes and birds, etc.. those kinds of missions that just pop out of nowehere. And apparently, you do not get the fertilizers if you go directly to a neighbor's farm to help out. Currently, I ran out of these fertilizers, so I just borrowed these pics from lightchan.

You would normally receive about 5 of these fertilizer bags which you can use to add "sparkle" to your friends' crops. You would later notice that fertilized crops have the sparkles on them. Just like these berries, pic taken from Carla's farm. (click on the image to enlarge)

And when the crops are ready for harvest, you would see the difference in size as compared to the crops that were not fertilized, see the pic of my farm and notice the difference between the corn kernels. :)

Also, once you harvest the sparkly crops, you'll notice that you earn 1XP point for each plot, in addition to the selling price and master points.

And oh, if you have a lot of cows, I'd advise you get dairy farms and milking those cows will be as fast as two clicks. Or something. :)

One dairy farm can house 20 cows, all you have to do is click on a cow, select move, and move it into the dairy farm, and then wait for harvest! I mean, milking time...

I hope Farmville develops a shearing farm or something for the sheep and a milking station for the goats too.
*sigh*

And if we're not neighbors yet, just, add me... :)

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Lesser Facebook Friends in Live Feed!

noreply@blogger.com (Cathy Laine) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:57:00 +0000

That was why my readership from my facebook friends has slowly dwindled! Facebook has made updates with their system and this is what happened:

The new facebook setup has limited the number of friends's newsfeeds to where your updates are published to a default of 250; meaning, if you have 1,000 friends, your updates will only be published in the newsfeeds of just 250 of them! Imagine! (This is also why Mafia Wars jobs have slow response, and even adoption of farmville animals... lol!)

So to remedy this, go to your home/newsfeed. Then look at the very bottom part, there's a blue bar with Edit Options at the right area: (click image to enlarge)

Click on that Edit Options thing and this will pop-out:

Change the Maximum number of friends in Live Feed into your actual number of friends or even more.

Got it?

Good.

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