Of social networking and video streaming...

Finally I have succumbed to the popular social networking - Facebook. Yes, I may seem a bit too late to join the crowd but I actually have registered it since 2007. Then left it idle and unattended until recently when an old friend started again. It's quite addictive at some point but thank God I still can yield and resist the force....did I (I have also downloaded the mobile version in my phone)?

I'm not alone. I found some Nav members within the group, friend's friends. And able to reconnect other long distance friends as well. It's quite a good tool. Now I don't mean to promote the site. You can choose to register other platform - Myspace, etc. They said there are 30 millions users in Facebook. Hmm.... By applying six degree theory, you are actually connected to Barack Obama within six friends connection.

Then recently, out of sudden, Britain's Got Talent get the attention. A video performance of a contestant get viewed more than 10 millions in just a week, beating anyone else. Try search this in Youtube: Susan Boyle.

Again, this is no publicity or recommendation. Just to show that how connected we are and how flat the world is.

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