Well, hello!

It's been wayyyy too long.  I'm ready to revv up this blog.  What a month and half it's been in 2016!  Too many deaths in January and a Presidential election campaign that is ... basically out of control.    We seem to be going backwards not forwards. 

FACEBOOK's VALUE

Hello there and Happy New Year!

I haven't been blogging at all for a very long time, (see below) and decided with the New Year (New Decade) that I had better try to update my presence here. (or else I may have to go to blog slacking bootcamp). Since a blog has no word limitations I can ramble here in more detail than with facebook and twitter.

And, in just this short time (well, I guess that is relative) my last entry questioning whether facebook will devolve into the myspace cemetery is certainly quite moot. Old news today, but, yesterday, it was announced that its value is now at 50 billion, yes 50 billion. It is close to topping Time Warner, the largest media conglomerate in the world. Goldman and a Russian billionaire have invested sizable monies to further its continued growth. The Social Network is in the running for an Academy Award, Mark Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine's 2010 Man of the Year and he gave 100 million to the mayor of Newark and smiled about it on Oprah.

No burials yet and highly unlikely anytime soon. And an IPO will be offered eventually.

I do think though, that my addiction to Facebook (good, bad or indifferent) is probably not too healthy and may require some intervention. Just kidding. I quit cigarettes (a long time ago) and alcohol (for health not addiction reasons)so I know that I don't need intervention, just motivation and willpower.

I do however, have a burning desire to have just one venue to check in with and to blabber away on and want them all linked but because of the idiosyncrasies in each, I may just have to continue to be in all places all the time: Attached/addicted and wired like the rest of us 24/7.

And, then, there is always linkedin, ping/pong/bing/bang and to the moon. Oh dear.

I don't think my wish to wean myself in this decade is realistic or a viable financial option. NO presence, no options/no work/no business/no voice/no nada.

Off to tweet. (which IS linked to my FACEBOOK). I still need a few ghostwriters and social media elves to make all of this run professionally and smoothly.

Praise be raised .... complain... remain ... (thanks Goldie). :)

THE DEATH OF MYSPACE

As myspace dies are we to assume that facebook, twitter ad infinitum will eventually follow suit?

What is the shelf life? when future generations have less than an MTV/twitter attention span?

Waiting for the ...next big thing

Regards,

Bettinaisms
(working to CREATE the next big thing, rather)

p.s. the sun came out in New York
pps. LIVING in the MOMENT

cheers.

Is FACE to FACE communication dead? like the newspaper/print industry? FACEBOOK is the new alcohol HI MY NAME IS BETTINA AND I'M A FACEBOOKOLIC People flirt as if they were drinking (that is without inhibition) on the social network. Is it the freedom that anonymity and fantasy create? Hey, Do I know you? : ) Jeffrey Toobin's need to post his marital state (why did he exclude it in the beginning one may ask?) after rumors that he fathered someone (other than his wife of many years') child is a testament to the somewhat perverse voyeurism that Facebook can elicit. Have we lost all privacy? I twitter therefore I am Sexting is hazardous for your health

October 27, 2008

THE ROGUE DIVA

Talks about returning her $150,000 new wardrobe funded by the RNC and returning to shopping at her "favorite consignment shop" in Anchorage, Alaska along with her $30 wedding ring that she bought herself so she can repair her reputation and think about her OWN future during the final dying days of the election campaign.

"Spreading the wealth" is being miscontrued as "socialism," by Miss Rogue.

What was John McCain thinking? He wasn't. He has NO judgment and can't speak with realism about the future because he may very well not be here.

Sarah Palin is the NOT the woman in the White House who represents qualified, intelligent women in politics or in America and does more harm than good for women with brains and ambition who want and have worked for equality.

The future of America cannot be placed into the hands of the ROGUE DIVA whose foreign policy will be executed with a wink and who will vote to overturn ROE vs. WADE.

VOTE FOR OBAMA 2008

final countdown

Sarah Palin is a bloody moron.

"Now is not the time to experiment with socialism?" Absolute nonsense -- with regard to Obama's tax plan.

The McCainPalin campaign is distorting the facts.

The extreme danger is that uneducated rednecks believe her.

2008 ELECTION

September 26, 2008

I just emailed this to Katie Couric and Campbell Brown:

Palin is like a mail order bride, and a power hungry one, plucked from an online or print ad (McCain met her once) to accomodate the old man's needs.

She's been briefed, coveted and protected, adorned and used for her charm, much like any powerful man would do with an attractive woman.

Keeping her a mystery intensifies the allure. Men love to unravel the best kept secrets of a woman.

How hot young democratic men can fall for this game and respond to her "sexiness" is frightening.


Sex and politics. And now SEXUAL POLITICS is getting in the way of the country's survival.


Whew!

What's a girl to do?



Bettina Marks

NEWSDAY CONTRIBUTOR