Yes that’s right I’m not going to ditch facebook just because I’m on google+.

For the simple fact, that not everyone will want to use google+ and will stay with facebook, like avid users of myspace won’t ditch it completely because they’re using something else.

I like to spread as far and wide as I can. I think hell with freeze over before google buys out facebook. If by some miracle that did happen and the platforms did integrate, then it would be a no brainer, I’d switch entirely to google+.  Until then I live in reality and will continue to use facebook and google+.

Ok I made a promise to myself last year that I wouldn’t play any facebook games.

Well what do you know, I’m sort of addicted to them now. I spend at least 4 hours a day on them.

Yes I could be doing other things with my time, like looking for paid work.

So are you addicted to facebook games?

If you’ve been living under a rock, you won’t know about Google’s latest assault on Facebook’s domination of the social media universe.

They have launched a limited beta test of their latest offering, basically called “Google +”.

Yes we know what you’re all thinking, this is going to go the way of “Buzz” and “Wave” and the Dodo.

I was lucky to be sent an invite last night and have been having a little play around with it. Still got to get my head around it fully.

I’m mainly concentrating on the “Circles” part of the site at the moment, where you can add people to your circles, it’s like following someone on twitter and instead of putting them on a list as I tend to do, you add them to a circle of your choosing or you can use the ones Google offer you.

I’ll give you a full run down of what you can expect when I’ve used it a lot more.

Apologies for the silence from this blog in a little while. I have done a few quick bursts on the video blog and neglected this word only blog.

So how have you all been doing?

I’m back off to Birmingham on Wednesday to resolve the issues with my denture that makes me gag everytime I wear it.

Apologies to Birmingham Dental Hospital, I haven’t attempted to try the denture again as I’m afraid the outcome would be the same, coupled with the fact that since the last appointment I’ve been feeling really crappy with a cold and a chesty cough that doesn’t want to relinquish its hold on my body. It just feels like I’ve been smoking 50 a day and I’m a non-smoker.

Some interesting things have been happening over the past week. What with the Paperchase-gate and Kevin Smith being asked to leave a southwest airlines flight. It’s amazing that twitter has so much power, that’s why I love the platform. It gives you a chance to get a whole load off your chest (pun not intended).

Google Buzz was also launched last week, which I’m loving loads. The same hoohah has been brewing with how Google were sharing your profile with others, which seems to have been fixed. Again partially down to the power of twitter.

Facebook have changed the look of the frontpage, lots of people not liking the change (no surprise there). I like the new logical layout of the frontpage.

I’m still waiting to hear about a temp job that’s going to last a minimum of 2 to 4 weeks, fingers crossed off benefits for the first time in nearly 12 months.

I have also started to dabble in MySpace again, created a new account and plonked in a whole load of links of where you can find me on the ‘net.

My Wizzard’s Blog TV video blogging site has now moved over to posterous, the domain now re-directs to my new posterous blog, that’s another hosting bill eradicated, the wallet is starting to look a lot healthier, the moths are slowly being banished.

I’ll post back later when some more stuff has happened.

Dear Facebook,

Why when a security question is added to your account,  why are you not permitted to change the security question on your account?

There are very serious reasons why people may want to change their security question which I’m sure as a social media, online company you are aware of.

This to me seems a little short sighted by yourselves. I hope in the advances you make in 2010, you put this high on your list of priorities.

After reading Chris Pirillo’s latest Lockergnome that landed in my inbox about your founder’s speech,  there are still users out there that expect a certain amount of privacy.  Not everyone out there has the best of intentions, so lets not throw the privacy baby out along with the bathwater just yet and make it easy for your users to feel safe.

Yours puzzled

Wizzard’s Blog

I’ve asked this question on my twitter accounts, facebook and friend feed.

I’m coming up to my limit on the free flickr account and they’re asking me to upgrade to their pro version for a fee, whilst I don’t mind paying the fee, I cannot pay for it at the moment.

I need a free alternative that I can host more than 200 photos on.

I do use photobucket, however that is cluttered up with all of the other rubbish I’ve accumulated from the internet.

So any suggestions?

I have created a facebook page for this blog. So if you don’t want to leave facebook to come and read my blog, then you can read it on facebook.

At regular intervals facebook will import posts from this blog and display them in the notes tab on the page.

Here’s a link to the page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wizzards-Blog/110211502433

Not much to say, the wife of the incoming MI6 chief outed her husband on facebook, by posting pictures of the themselves on facebook, as the rest of us would do.

Outed in this sense meaning cover well and truly blown.

However seeing the position her husband is due to take up in november, you would have thought about security measures on the account a little more.

However the Mail and Sunday doing a stirling job of highlighting to the world about it, just to make things a little worse for the poor guy.

I doubt he’ll be taking up the post after this potentially deadly faux pas.

Yes I’ve got my personalised facebook URL to my profile:

http://www.facebook.com/richard.arblaster

I don’t like the word vanity, there is no vanity in wanting people to remember an easy to remember link to your facebook profile page.

Especially if copying and pasting of the link fails so you end up typing a large string of characters that you will end up having a couple of attempts to get right.

So lets knock it off with the “vanity” and call it “personalised”.

If I want to be vain I’ll look in the mirror thanks.

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone about @PerryBelcher. I jokingly put a comment on his facebook video about him spending some time on a boat with his friends.

A few hours later this person on twitter posted a video up about him, saying that in March 2008 he had been arrested and found guilty of internet fraud. I had a look at the video and lo and behold it was Perry Belcher in the news item, all his assets were being seized etc.

Then Perry posted up a video on December 2008 giving his side of what happened.

It was regarding fake medicines. This person on twitter wanted me to re-tweet this video and said that I would not because I don’t go round spreading negativity around the internet.

There are some saying he’s ripped them off for their affiliate earnings, only one side of the story is being told here, we don’t know anymore background than that.

I am not defending what Perry Belcher may or may not have done in the past, however I let things stay in the past. I have only known Perry via twitter at the beginning of this year and I was blissfully unaware of what had transpired.

To me mostly everyone deserves a second chance, he’s got his second chance, time to let sleeping dogs lie I told this individual. It is so difficult to convey your thoughts in 140 characters or less without appearing to spam the twitter stream.

To me Perry Belcher seems to be a decent guy, that opinion will not change because he’s been convicted. Unless he does something directly to me to put my nose out of joint, then again that opinion will not change.

Call me an idiot or whatever you will. It might appear to be a character flaw to some seeing the good in everyone I come across. I have come across people that I cannot see the good in at all, so I’m not blinkered to the world around me.

Give the dog a chance. Can a leopard change its spots? I like to think so.