Today (while bored at work..but shhhht!) I was checking the most popular searches on Technorati and besides the usual suspicious like YouTube, iPhone, MySpace and Paris Hilton I've found something I didn't know before. Namely Noelia. What you don't know who Noelia is?

Well, welcome in the club of the ignorant! Noelia is in truth a girl, well a women...ehm and she's from puerto rico. Ah and she is usually a singer too. Nothing sooo special don't you think? So why she's on top on Technorati searches? Okay to make it short: Sex!

Yeah where's a sex tape around the web with her as "leading actor" and her (ex-)boyfriend. Well that reminds me somehow of Paris Hilton. And in some kind of avenge her (ex-)boyfriend spread this tape all over the web. Huh... Paris Hilton again? But she seems not that worry about, maybe because of the additional advertisement for her? Paaaarissss anyone???

Well at least Noelia looks far better than Paris. (Yeah I admit I have a preference for girls from that part of the world... ;-) But make your own mind:

































































Cute, isn't she?


Fate.

I discovered today that there are already 1547 applications which can be added to your Facebook profile. What a number! Application like videos, Flickr implementation, your daily calendar (do my friends really wanna know when I have an appointment with my dentist???), online games, horoscopes, wishlists, e-cards, maps with places you have visited,virtual gifts you can send to your friends, family trees, even an aquarium for and from which you can share fish with your friends on Facebook, job offers, quotes and and and. The list seems to be endless. Well, to ask my honest opinion, I don't know why I would have to send a virtual beer to my friend next door, but there seem to be enough people out there using this kind of entertainment.

Well, sometimes I think there is not one out there having no Facebook account, sharing his life with all the world, uploading pictures, sending messages around, publishing his daily schedule...

On my way through the world wide web I have found another funny illustration for Facebook:

I did it! Yippieh yippieh ya!!! I am on the track! I am socializing!

HazelIce is having 3 FRIENDS on Facebook now!

After posting "The Wall" in my network Germany I finally got some relations. Unbelievable! Don't know what it was: People feeling pity for me, the girl with 0 friends, or my recently uploaded very sexy and cute picture... of my baby kitten. However, I am on the track now. Was just receiving my first messages, well to be honest, reflecting the same idea I had of Facebook people from beginning: either drunk or just weird. As an answer to my question "What got you adding me as your friend?" I just got: "Moment make me added u to friends. Nice to meet (:" Ya, well, nice that we have spoken about this.

But anyway. I still feel confident. My goal is to get more friends.

So I have also joined a group now. The first I stumbled upon and which sounded quite interesting for my needs. No idea what a group is doing, no idea what THEY are doing, but com'on, I wanna socialize, nothing funky. Also the picture of my kitten looks really funny between faces of computer geeks :-D

Take Care,

Yours, HazelIce

While browsing the world wide web to get more information on my acting on Facebook to gain more friends than the currently 0, I have stumbled upon a very interesting article:

Data released by Facebook today reveals that Facebook is indeed the “Most used people search engine on the web.” Does Facebook have any plans of going head on with Google? You bet! Last month I suggested that Microsoft needs to purchase Facebook ASAP if they want to gain in online advertising as well as search. People related searches make up over 30% of all searches worldwide. Facebook handles 500 million searches whereas Google handles 3.85 billion search queries. If we estimate that 30% of all searches are people related, that would mean 1.15 billion searches completed by Google are people related. That suggests that Facebook is completing a huge percentage of people searches worldwide. Whether or not they are the “Most used people search engine on the web,” remains to be seen. One is thing is for sure: Facebook has been self-declared as the people search engine.

(Read the whole article by Nick O'Neill)

Wow, that sounds really interesting! I didn't imagine the market share of Facebook to be that big! One reason more to stay on the track (I really have to admit I wanted to quit soon)...

What you guys think about Facebook? Leave your comments or contact me on Facebook!

Yours, HazelIce

... Spartaaa


Just click on the pictures and enjoy. ;-)


Fate.

As I couldn't find anything interesting in "my" Germany Network (nobody poked back... what you guys are doing???) I decided to travel around on Facebook and browsed some other Networks.

First of all I visited my Friends in Egypt (well, not friends on Facebook of course - my list is stil empty. I have to appear very poor in front of the other Facebook user who have usually around 50 or 100 friends. I should ask for their secrets in making relations. Apparently they didn't win them by poking them...)

Well, Egypt was quite a nice place to stop at. More people (I guess they all had to try out this new thing online, as usual), more interactivity, more of all. They even had a thread for new Facebook registrants.

But the really funny part was one group called "Only in Egypt". This doesn't require more comments, just enjoy:

Recently I told you the considerable advantages of a real birth and a virtual one in Second Life. Well okay, not everything in Second Life is worse, really! For example naked women! Yeah really, they are all naked! Naked like a mannequin! I really start to like Second Life. ;-) But okay, before HazelIce is going to kill me, let's go back to business.

The next great experience of Second Life is learning to walk! Welcome back in the years of being a toddler! (Did I mention already the so called "Orientation Island"?) Well, walking in Second Life is like a first-person-shooting game: Really Easy. Even naked women can do that! You have to walk towards red circles on the floor... Wow, how exciting... where was the "quit" button again?

But wait.. there's also a "fly" button. This is really a great advantage of Second Life. Who didn't want to fly like a bird in real world? In Second Life you can!. Great! No sarcasm at all...really!










Next time I'll tell you how I've survived this "Orientation Island". (IF, my fellows, IF...)


Fate.

I have been in London... On Facebook of course! London people always seemed to be more open minded and direct, so there I got to know about the "Poking" on Facebook:

"He pokes her, she pokes him, they poke each other back and forth. Cut the shit already, I want it, you want it, we're not fooling anyone... let's just have sex."

Great! I am young, willing, let's poke! I just have to search for some victims. So, back to my Germany network!

On page one always some handsome guys (ok, also girls, but to be honest I just leave them aside) are displayed. These are the facebook people! I am coming!

One weird guy in red t-shirt, huge sunglasses and a weird grinning... he will be the one. The first one being poked by HazelIce.

Hm??? I clicked on poke him, had to enter a security code and then I got a message that I poked him and he will be informed of this the next time he logs in.... Did I miss anything???

Well, let's try another one... and another one.. and another one... Will I be poked back?

Let's see tomorrow, when I login again....

(Meanwhile I will poke around a bit :-)

Waiting for your Pokes. HazelIce

I have now spent about 2 hours browsing Facebook, checking the German Network I have been joined to, searching for groups and even read the About Page... I can't help myself... What I am doing here? What the hell I am gonna for on Facebook? All I have discovered so far are posts of people feeling bored and getting crazy ideas and other people, apparently all of them drunk (or am I just finding such posts where people are drunk? Or everybody can just carry the socializing thing with the help of drugs?). Well, I am probably missing around 2.5 pro mile...

Will arrange some bottles for tomorrow night then.

HazelIce

Well, after waiting one day my patience has been over. Remember, I am a girl! We do not have this thing called "patience". With the help of a quite smart guy in the big, big community world (how the hell you know such things???) I got joined a network on facebook and granted access to the faces and stories. To be honest, I have would never found that trick and waited all my life or given up...

So, I am in Germany now. At least on facebook. Let's see what's going on there: Some, to be honest, weird faces, I think they wanna appear funky, well, as they like. Then something is taking my attention:

Popular in Germany
Posted ItemsSorry? I thought I got to facebook? What is going on here??? Apparently I will never know. After struggling for more than half an hour with my laptop (Baby, I know you are old and weak, but I love you, be sure of this!) to watch this damn video, it is showing me: Video no longer active! Was it that sexual??? Now I wanna know!!!!!

But Katie seems to be popular. Underneath is a second video of her (is it really her??)

So I'm starting my new (second) life. Things can't become worse, eh? Wrong! As a tiny, little, sweet, stinky baby in the real world you can't do anything wrong (well, except start to breath). Everyone cares about you, speaks in baby language to you, you can say whatever you want (because anyway nobody will understand you..) and they'll give you a name. Yeah, I know some of you surely begin to protest now "Buhhuu.. I hate my name!" and "I hate my parents for calling me [insert you name here]!" But that's nothing compared to the drama which starts by clicking on the big orange 'JOIN NOW - Membership is free'-Button on the www.second-life.com website. You have to choose your own name!!! Here and now!

Believe me, it's really a drama and I am not exagerrating. It's not like "Hey... Ashley sounds cool" or "Justin Timberlake gets every girl, whoever wherever he wants, so call me Justin!!!" No, the trouble begins with the choice of your last name, which are pre-given. Great! So every 'good' first name with a halfway good last name is already taken by some other luckier guy. Awesome! Of course just the 'bad' ones are still left: Huldschinsky, Lubitsch or Wiefel. But Justin Huldschinsky sounds kinda stupid, don't you think so?

*sidenote* 'Justin Huldschinsky' IS already taken. Uhmm no comment...

So after nearly 1 hour of trying I finally have chosen who to be: 'Fate Larrsson' (still crossing my fingers that 'Larsson' isn't anything stupid...). So next step: Select an Avatar! Great, at least I can look like Justin Timberlake! Oh..noo..wait. I only can choose between examples? Boy next door, City Chic, Nightclub, Furry... what the hell? I don't wanna look like a big fat rabbit!!!

The Rebel in me awaked against this allocation into stereotypes and so I have choosen Cybergoth! Fate Larsson, the Cypergoth. Sounds stupid? Well, in Second Life it's more a kind of adjustment...


Fate.

Time to get ready, I will do what I have promised and get into the adventure of communities and social networking. A girl - a word, or how was this saying?

It's time to introduce myself. *grimace at HazelIce..* Well, I'm the intelligent, cleverer, calm and the knows-it-best part of this whole thing. Briefly said: the male part.

As hatschidatschi-i-love-u-so-much-HazelICe already said, we'll help you to survive in this big-evil-community-struggle. And for you, my dear readers, I'm going to a place where you can discover a whole world of '...teeming with people, entertainment, experiences...[other marketing stuff]' and unlimited possibilities. No, not America. Second Life!

I hope I don't get lost...


Fate.

Communities rule the world!

Who didn't hear about the stars on the community sky like myspace.com, facebook.com and all the other of its kind? And who didn't join at least one of them? Forums, Blogs, Communities.... all of them having one aim: Bringing people together to grow up a big family (reminds me of the 60s, the hippies have tried the same, just without the help of the world wide web) and to socialize to fight against the huge dark cloud of loneliness all alone in front of their PCs in home or work.

Well, to be honest, the idea behind is not that bad. But do I have to tell SweetHeart 123 all my life's story? Do I have to fell in love with Harry_BigHead? And do I have to share pictures of my well deserved, hard earned vacation or a video of my cat chasing the sofa cushion with the whole world???

Communities are a great thing, at least for Sweetheart and Harry - but not for HazelIce

In this blog I will tell you my experiences about the funny, curious, odd, strange, far away world of communities, the (re-)socializing programs of the World Wide Web. I will fight for you everyday, to survive in the kind baby-hatschidatschi-i-love-u-so-much-and-i-am-so-interesting-just- ping-me world, to give my input to exercise your laugh muscles.

I am willing, and I am ready. Are you?

Wish me luck, HazelIce