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Social network sites take a chunk of my time each day

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Did you know that I spend perhaps as much as an hour a day going through all my “friend” invites and other messages that come in from social networks like Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Facebook, and Bumpzee?

I haven’t actually kept track of how many friend requests come in each day or how long it really does take so my “hour” is an estimate, but I think it’s fairly accurate. When someone makes a friend request or joins my neighborhood I visit the social network site and then I often visit the person who’s just made me a “friend”‘s blog as well. So, yeah, it can take some time.

How much of your time do you think social networking takes you each day or week?





Mybloglog Community Exchange

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Oh dear, Mrs. LifeCruiser is on a tagging rampage! She’s tagged me with the MyBloglog Community Exchange started by Garry Conn.

Are you a member of Mybloglog? If you aren’t you should sign up. Social networking is quite popular these days and it’s a great way to promote your site, get a few more links and perhaps even find great sites and make some internet friends.

One way to build your Mybloglog community is by participating in this exchange. Just follow the directions:

The simple rules:

1. Join all of the MyBlogLog communities on the list below.

2. Copy the list and create a new post on your blog and paste the list onto your post.

3. Write a brief paragraph that explains what the game is above the list (just as I have done here, but with your own words).

4. Add 2 or 3 or more MyBlogLog communities to the list and then publish the post. Add the new members to the bottom of the list.

The exchange list:

* Lifecruiser

* Tricia’s Musings

As the Garden Grows

The Web Files

Renny BA’s Terella

Take a moment and copy this to your site and add some of your own contacts. I picked my adds randomly!

You know what I’ve been doing this week?

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Guess what I’ve been doing in what little spare time I’ve had this week? I’ve been surfing, surfing, surfing over at blogadvance. Actually I’ve been trying to type my posts and surf at the same time- not an easy task to do, not at all.

Blogadvance has been having a contest this month and they are going to give the top surfer $100. The contest ends today, and as I type this at 3 a.m. I’m in second place and closing fast.

Wish me luck! I should know sometime later today if I won or not. I could certainly use the money if I do.

Update:

I stayed up until 7 a.m. clicking away but my opponent was clicking too. We were about 500 points apart all night. I finally went to bed. My husband got up and started surfing for me at about 9 a.m. but my opponent hadn’t stopped. He woke me at 10 am to tell me he thought it was a losing battle. She was more than 700 points ahead of us and it takes about an hour to collect between 120 and 150 credits. The contest was to end at 12 noon. We conceded the race.

I could have used that $100 though. 🙁

Finally reviewed!

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A very long time ago, ok maybe last May, I submitted my site to be rated over at Bloggy Award. Now, several months after I changed this blogs domain to feverishthoughts.com my site has been rated.

My site was apparently rated last Thursday, if you’d like to read the article and tell me what you think you can find it here.

I thought it was pretty good as ratings go. He must have gone to the original site of this blog (http://triciaswaterdragon.com/blog ) and didn’t pick up on the fact that it had changed domains when “it took him to a new domain when he clicked on a link”.

I can’t find any kind of link on the Bloggy Award site to e-mail him and let him know that the link should be updated to my new domain, and that my sidebars roll up now, so they hopefully look a little less cluttered. I just did that last week, don’t you think it looks a bit better?

If you read the article of my site come back and let me know what you think of it.

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I’m being stalked! No, no it’s not my old lady neighbor Sofie this time. Well, yes she still continues to stalk me by knocking on my door or calling me each day if she doesn’t see me at least 5 times a day. No this time it’s another blogger!

Shelli from Shelli’s Sentiments has fixated on me this week. I don’t know if I should be honoured or scared? I think I’ll go with honoured and pleased since she’s saying such nice things about me over there. You should check out her site if you haven’t been there recently. She’s really sweet and I love her site. She’s also the winner of the Compassionate Award from the Blog Emmy’s. She deserved the win!

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Another person you should go visit is Doctor Mom. See that square thumbnail of her site in the left upper corner of the page? yep, she’s my renter this week. She’s renovating her cul de sac – thanks to someone called Mr. Fab who wants a bigger lot on the street, and she need a place to stay. The idiot of the week has been chosen. Go on over and see who it is, I’m sure you’ll get a laugh when you do, the photos are Hilarious!

It also turns out that she likes baseball – the Minnesota Twins I think. Speaking of baseball, my hubby and his dad when to the Blue Jays game last night. They beat Boston!

So go on over and vist Doctor Mom at You’ve got 2 B Kidding would you? Let her know that her favorite landlord sent you. I just know you are going to love her site.

Blogexplosion what’s happened to you?

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First question: Where are the new owners of what used to be a very good blog traffic exchange? The new owner(s) hasn’t introduced him or herself yet to all of the members.

Next- What’s going on with thumbnail pictures of our blogs? I have four blogs running on Bl0gexplosion and only two of them have thumbnails right now. I stupidly decided that I wanted to change the thumbnail for Breath of life, oh, about THREE weeks ago. I’ve submitted my request twice and it still hasn’t been changed.

Might I suggest that when a person requests a new thumbnail, that the current thumbnail is not removed until the new one is ready to replace it. Wouldn’t that be so much better than staring at a blank white thumbnail that gives a viewer no idea of what the blog is about?

The other site of mine that doesn’t have a thumbnail is Odd Planet. You see, I recently moved Odd Planet from Bl0gexplosions blog hosting site Bl0gcharm to my own domain. I did this for a few reasons. 1. so I could have more control over my posts such as setting up automated posts. 2. So that my visitors could actually comment easily. The bl0gcharm comment system is terrible.

My third reason for moving Odd Planet from bl0gcharm to my own domain is a big one. When bl0gcharm started up it offered a small incentive – bloggers could make some money by having their blogs on bl0gcharm. That sounded interesting so I decided to create a blog there in early February and that’s when Odd Planet was born. It took me until early July to make $10 on bl0gcharm. $10 is the minimum amount of money that they will pay out to your paypal account. I requested my payout and it said pending. Alright, I can wait a day or two.

Nearly two months have gone by since I made my first request for a Bl0gcharm payout. I’ve sent in two support tickets about my problem and they haven’t been answered. Not a peep. I just sent in a third support ticket about this issue and I also sent one in about the lengthy wait for thumbnails.

Has anybody else noticed that their sites aren’t getting as many views as they used to on Bl0gexplosion? I’m pretty sure that my sites used to get at least 25 hits a day, but lately the highest amount is perhaps 12 hits each and often less than that. What’s up with that?

I’m not trying to run down Bl0gexplosion. It’s a good service and I’ve met a lot of great people and gained several regular visitors through them, but it’s hit a lot of bumps in the road lately and I’d love to know how the new owner is planning on addressing those problems.

Has anyone else run into problems with Bl0gexplosion lately? Have you had any response from the support team at all?

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