Just yesterday, again my wife has introduced me into a new social micro blogging service that is hot on today’s web news. Yup, I’m talking bout Plurk. The service gives you lots of options that are much like twitter’s only, + more. As twitter let’s you update you status so to keep everyone you know notified of what you are doing. Plurk on the other hand, is more on blogging about what’s going on in your life. something I have been looking for a long time, although it didn’t really match my preferences. But heck, you can’t please everyone.

But of course, with pro’s also comes cons. one of the things I dislike about plurk, is the so called karma. You  gain karma if you post on plurk, reply on your friends plurk’s, or at best, do site activities. Attaining a certain karma level allows you to unlock certain site features, like being able to change your background, more smilies and change of characters [upper right logo]. Not that I dislike it and all, but the certain feature discourages users to use plurk as it is. They cannot change their background coz they still don’t have enoug karma, they cannot use certain smilies, etc… And it’s really hard since plurk just started, you don’t have any friends to whom you may have activities with.

Since plurk is still on development period [not to mention they still haven't released API] I think I’ll just use both for fun and experimentation. But until plurk alone satisfies my needs, I’m with twitter.

Anyways, I’ve uploaded a couple of new pics of my son on my FaceBook here. I’ve also created a doll² and plurk page for fun. Ciao all.

My choices has only created chaos…

Tags: blogging, faris, micro, photos, plurk, service, Site, twitter

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Posted at : July 21st, 2008 - 3:05 am
Filed under : Everyday Life, Unclassified
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