Some nice people

I met two nice people at an afternoon get-together and they said they read my blog, but were not my facebook friends. Which in turn made me realize that it's been quite a while since I invited blog readers to step out and befriend me on facebook. Go on, you can do it! I tend to post music videos to facebook rather than my blog these days, so if you like Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bela Bartok, Tom Waits, Mozart, Johnny Cash, JS Bach, the Beatles...then befriend me on fb and enjoy!

Facebook

Frankly I couldn't care less about the fuss over whether social networking sites are taking up too much of people's lives.

But I am deeply stung—stung I tell you!—by this recent comment from one of my fb friends:

Gordon I've just been recommending people sign you as a friend for rare intellectual stimulation on Facebook. Now I find this!!!

OK, so it was in response to a Mr Men quiz that I took which ended up telling the world that "You are Mr Lazy...Your favorite activity is sleeping, so u dont get much done. You should try to do more things!"

So it may be that the quiz is right, and there is not that much use in befriending me for the purposes of intellectual stimulation.

But for the rest of you readers on facebook who are not yet my friends, sign me up! I will love you as deeply and sincerely as I love the other thousand or so who have already taken this step. No reasonable request left unfriended.

PS Also, after reading this, I thought World of Warcraft sounds pretty cool!

I need friends

No really, I do. I know I've said this before, but this time it's true.

On facebook, that is. I was so desperate to make some more friends that I even had to include one or two people I'm not sure I really like, but the other 806, well, I love youse all.

And I will love you too, with a love that approximates to the love I hold for those 806, if you will just befriend me. Try it! You'll like it!

I need more friends

On facebook, I mean. Honestly, you wouldn't be there just to make up the numbers. Try me, you'll see how sincere I am!

Facebook blog networks

For those of you on face book who've signed up with my blog network, thanks! It's been nice seeing your smiling faces and working out some of the friends out there who are reading the blog. It can be a pretty solipsistic experience, in fact, I really only started the blog for my own convenience and started kicking things along after some friendly words from Justin Moffat and Michael Jensen, but it's nice to know there are a few of you out there.

If you haven't joined my blog network on facebook, click the link and go for it. It's a painless experience, ASIO and the CIA already know about you anyway, so why not sign up and let me know who you are as well. Chances are my file on you is slim. ;-)

Facebook and blogs

If you're on facebook, there's a new application called 'blog networks', which may be worth checking out. I haven't really looked into it, but if you want to become a fan of this blog and of the Sola Panel blog, apparently you can. Can't hurt to try. If you're on facebook, all your personal information is likely already on a server in a vault somewhere in a mountain in Utah, so one more application isn't going to matter much, and may even be useful.

I just want some friends

Facebook friends, that is.

If you haven't already, just sign up with facebook (so ensuring that you are permanently stalkable), and send me a friend request.

No reasonable offer refused.

If you send me too many offers of applications, you will be terminated. ;-)

Be warned though, I update my status irritatingly regularly.

facebook chess II

Since I blogged about facebook chess I not only haven't picked up any opponents, I appear to have scared off a few of you and even paralyzed one of you into chessboard inaction.

*throws head back and laughs*:mwahahahahahaaaa!

But seriously, send me a challenge, someone. I'm not that good, really.

facebook chess

It's the first time I've played chess in years. I used to play all the time in primary school.

I remember that Sherlock Holmes used to play chess by post in the Conan Doyle stories. [edit: no I don't. see comments]

Anyone want a game, feel free to challenge on facebook. I have a lot of writing to do and I need the brain working. I promise to make at least two unforced blunders per game.

De-faced!

I've been making Facebook friends like nobody's business, sitting here clicking away on people's profiles, people who I vaguely remember having passed some time in the street in Adelaide in 1985 (just an example Frank, I don't mean you buddy).

Suddenly a message pops into my inbox, saying something like, "Yes I remember you, and you obviously remember me, but I'm not your friend. Never was, never will be. Goodbye."

Now all this is fair enough, no hard feelings, free world etc. But gentle blog reader, I'm sitting here bleeding arterial blood, straight from a wound to my heart, and into the keyboard of my laptop. Help me out here. It will probably take at least 10 of you adding yourself on as my friends before I recover from the hurt of this one.

And don't worry, if you request me as a friend, then like America's Statue of Liberty I will never turn y'all away. Well, perhaps you David. Oh, and you, Andrew. But the rest of you poor huddled masses, pile on in.

Facebook

I'm on, and I'm looking for friends, especially friends who will send me a fish!

Just put 'Gordon Cheng' into the Facebook search engine and you will find me easily enough.

Edit to add:

Hey everybody,

Thanks for all the fish you keep sending!

I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by peoples' generosity at the moment, so please forgive me if I don't respond to every fish personally.