{"id":5718,"date":"2008-11-20T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2008-11-20T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T04:44:56","slug":"get-friendz-and-generate-adulation-by-using-the-app-that-expresses-so-you-dont-have-to-ideal-for-the-imaginatively-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5718\/get-friendz-and-generate-adulation-by-using-the-app-that-expresses-so-you-dont-have-to-ideal-for-the-imaginatively-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Get friendz and generate adulation by using the App that expresses so you don&#8217;t have to.  &#8220;Ideal for the imaginatively challenged&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brow is furrowed again and I should get this out before my wife gets home to hear yet, another one of my Andy Rooney-ish tirades on &#8216;how my day was&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20081120-bnpntr74t8hwk46h69wxa4w41p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So help me out here.\u00a0 How is this <a title=\"Generatus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.generatus.com\/\">application<\/a> helpful?\u00a0 In being social in any environment we are more or less on the same page.\u00a0 Most people feel insecure about <em>something<\/em> if not many things.\u00a0\u00a0 It takes effort to expand beyond your own self-consciousness sometimes to get a thought out past your own nose.\u00a0\u00a0 So why, when we are shielded with the plastic from our computers, and most likely miles between us, would you feel the need to be <em>more <\/em>excepted for what you express?<\/p>\n<p>Taking a look at the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.generatus.com\/About.asp\">what&#8217;s it for<\/a>&#8216; page, let&#8217;s run it down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong><em>&#8220;H<\/em><em>ow many hours have you wasted trying to think of something suitably witty, funny and original for your status on Facebook or Twitter?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not nearly as many I&#8217;m sure as <em>days<\/em> that are wasted mindlessly sitting in front of the TV.\u00a0 Thinking is genuinely regarded as a natural and healthy thing to do and not something to be discouraged.\u00a0 That is, unless you are watching TV \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it, a status like &#8220;Dave is mowing the lawn&#8221; or &#8220;Kate is asleep&#8221; is not going to impress that huge entourage of friends you&#8217;ve amassed.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gee, you mean now that I have amassed my very own entourage I should just spend my time with cut-n-paste churned updates from the bot.\u00a0 I got one even better.\u00a0 Why not just hire myself a social media assistant to churn babble for me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got better things to do like take Italian lessons using <a title=\"Rosetta Stone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettastone.com\/\">Rosetta Stone<\/a> to build an entourage of Real Estate\/Vespa enthusiasts in on <a title=\"Meemi.com\" href=\"http:\/\/meemi.com\/meemi\">Meemi.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 My take is that it&#8217;s opt in on social networks anyway.\u00a0 I understand everyone&#8217;s complaints about the banality of updates like Sbux is out of half and half or I&#8217;m walking my dog, but what if it does mean something in the context of how you are relating to others in the moment.\u00a0 I love to hear my family and friends are up through <a title=\"Facebook\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5718\/get-friendz-and-generate-adulation-by-using-the-app-that-expresses-so-you-dont-have-to-ideal-for-the-imaginatively-challenged\/#more-5718\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brow is furrowed again and I should get this out before my wife gets home to hear yet, another one of my Andy Rooney-ish tirades on &#8216;how my day was&#8217; So help me out here.\u00a0 How is this application helpful?\u00a0 In being social in any environment we are more or less on the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-enduring-interest","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}