De-Friend a Baby
Ok so I know this post isn’t exactly the type you’d normally find on gr1innovations.com but I’ve got a platform with many readers and, dammit, I’m going to use it to voice my opinion.
Before I get started I feel that I should let you know that I am part of the ‘Facebook Generation’. My life didn’t even really start until I got introduced to Facebook back in 2005 (and since I was 19 at the time, all those wedgies I got in junior high totally never happened). Anyway with a little simple math you can see that I am 25, which puts me at an interesting point in my life. You see, a large number of my friends (and by “friends”, I mean “people who I met once, added to my friends list, and now periodically browse creepily through their photo albums”) are starting to conceive and raise little stomach critters. I am in the first generation of people to be both intimately connected to Facebook and in my ‘baby years’. And it makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a hedgehog.
Having a child at this point in my life seems like just about the worst thing that could happen to me [a message for the child karma will no doubt send me following this article: I love you son]. That’s because being me right now is pretty fucking awesome. You know what I use Facebook for: finding dates, meeting chicks, and posting iPhone self-pictures of myself flexing in a mirror (you know, to facilitate finding dates and meeting chicks). The last thing I want to see when I log into my Facebook account is an pseudo-artsy picture of your prego belly or a picture of your newly-hatched person-creature, accompanied by a stream of thinly-veiled lies about how adorable the little hairless rodent is from . Real talk: your baby looks like a mini-John C. Reilley, only about a thousand times uglier. You might as well go ahead and post a photo of your now-ruined va-jay-jay.
“But Justin!” you say. “People love seeing pictures of me, my belly, my baby, my baby’s daddy holding my baby watching TV drinking a beer…it’s just so CUUUUUTE.” To that I reply: “Lady, you must have smuggled your epidural out of the hospital and mixed it into your Vitamin E cream.” There might be a few twisted sickos who enjoy that type of thing, but they’re also buying baby food to use as lubricant. My suggestion: at the moment of conception, name the blind monkey and get them their very own Facebook account. Start chronicling their embarrassing and lame life right away. Send a friend request to all your friends (I’ll be hitting decline BTW) and let people choose if they want to be subjected to an endless stream of albums like “Lil’ Jimmy’s first bath”. None for me, thanks – if I wanted to see a baby wang I’d just go streaking in February alongside some reflective surfaces. Plus, if nothing else, your kid’s Facebook wall will be a good meeting place for your jealous ugly single friends to gather, while they ovulate in vain.
I, for one, am laying down the gauntlet. I am giving people sufficient time to get on board and conform. If you don’t want to separate your baby from me then I will be separating myself from your baby (and sadly you too). I’m giving people until November 14th to get rid of the junk I don’t want to see from Facebook and then I will be deleting you from my account FOREVER. I’ve chosen that date to be 9 months after Valentines Day (which is another day I hate, for reasons that should obvious by now). I will be leading the charge on what I have dubbed De-Friend A Baby Day” and will remove those of you who feel the need to violate what I consider unwritten rules of Facebook. I urge the rest of you to join me. ONLY YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Exploring the Various Ways of Online Money Making
With the widespread usage of the internet all over the world, it is a universally acknowledged fact that a lot of money can be made online. However, there are many ways for earning a living online and possibly even becoming rich, so how do you choose? It basically just depends on your own preferences and skills.
While some believe that it is best to make money with affiliate marketing, others believe that flipping websites or domains is their way to make money online, others believe in doing it with Adsense or by creating their own information products to sell, and the list goes on and on. The fact is that there is loads of money that can be earned online through many different methods but you have to choose the best ways that fit your needs.
Here are just some of the ways that people may use to make money online…
* Making money on eBay: If you’re looking forward to exploring the avenues of online money making, you can try being a seller on eBay. Thousands of sales are being made every day on eBay and this results in a lot of income for the sellers. You might be wondering where you would start or where you would you get the items to sell? Once you have signed up with your free account, the best way to get started and build some experience as a seller is by auctioning off some of your personal items that you do not use anymore. While doing that, you can decide what kind of business you want to set up and figure out where to get inventory to sell, or find a reliable drop shipper.
* Making money through affiliate marketing: This is also an effective and highly popular way to make money online. It is basically just the act of referring people to different products and services according to their needs, and getting a particular percentage of the sale in return for it. As an affiliate marketer, you are given your own links to a product/service so the seller will know when a customer buys that product from your referral.
* Make money blogging: An increasingly large number of people are starting to figure out that blogging can be one of the best ways to make money online. With very minimal start up costs (or even free), you can easily build a blog and get started on blogging. Your goal is then to gain a loyal readership over time as well as high search engine rankings. This will be done by regularly posting very high quality content along with getting backlinks and utilizing social networking sites. Once you do that you can start bringing in a decent income that will continue to grow as the popularity of your blog grows.
* Make money with Facebook: If you’ve always wanted to earn an online income, why not jump into the most popular social networking site in the world? Go after a popular niche and build up your list of friends and fans by engaging with them and giving them lots of great reasons to like you and share you with their friends. You can start making money by using the various monetization systems to your advantage as more people come to know about you.
The above list is by no means comprehensive but it does highlight some of the most interesting and effective ways of making money on the web. You can try out one of them or combine a few of them into your own money making system. Whatever fits with your interests and works best for you.
This is a guest post contributed by DebtCC Affiliate Program (see link above).
