I closed my facebook account and feel great. Step 1 in my extreme detox!

I really have been in two minds about Twitter. On one hand here is a new service that reminds me of facebook status updates but announced to anyone who cares to listen, and on the other hand a new craze that everyone I know is getting onto and putting up posts about their every mundane movement. In recent months the number of users has climbed dramatically and C-lebritites like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher got on board [...]

The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message. See more here – http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/