Facebook? I’ll pass…

I’ve been receiving invitations from friends to join Facebook for a long time and I have always ignored them. The reasons are many; I already have a personal website, I have this blog, I use Live Messenger (Skype, etc.) to contact my friends online and I send emails (not mass funny but spam emails, I rarely do that) and I use LinkedIn (although quite reluctant about it as well, at least I’ve seen it actually working). If someone needs to find me or catch up with me the ways to do it are many and simple (ex. Google me…). Furthermore, so far I have not come across any argument good enough to convince me and join.
In addition, today I read this viewpoint about the Facebook mania here in Sweden and I must admit that from one side the point raised is quite reasonable referring to the future and kind of being careful how one exposes themselves but from the other side it also applies to all the long terms and agreements we accept whenever we register somewhere online. However, it is the significant increase of interest around Facebook that makes the difference. Thus, for the time being, thank you very much but I think I’ll pass…

Learn swedish

After building an online embassy in the virtual world of Second Life, Sweden keeps taking steps towards this direction on many aspects. One of these steps is teaching Swedish, check it here (thanks Takis).