Multiple Me's
So, recently the creators of "Facebook", the online website that tons of college students around the country are a part of, has recanted its decision to start what they called a "mini news feed" that basically tracks all the different events each of your friends is doing.
The original intent was so that you could see what's been going on with all your friends, but it started to turn stalkerish when you would read things like, "Chris got up to get a ham sandwich and had an argument with the mailman today", or "Chris has a blister on his left big toe" and you're like "What?! How the heck did they find that out?!"
No, I'm kidding...they don't know like EVERY personal detail, but it was a little uncomfortable reading through a person's EVERY detail of action that relates to Facebook. "Your friend just made friends with so-and-so." "Petey just accepted so-and-so as their friend." "John is out to lunch." "Bessie just asked Louie to marry her" or something like that. It just listed way too many details about friends that you cared to read or cared to know, honestly.
Some of that stuff is just better left private and not for the entire network of your known friends to see...
Anyways, with all that said (I know, long explanation), the creator of Facebook actually wrote a personal message to all users of the service an apology letter about the mini-feed and the effect that it was having on its users. He wanted to keep the service free from online predators and for it to be a safe environment where friends would enjoy sharing information with each other and keeping in touch while in college and beyond. But with the mini-feed, people were pretty angry.
So, in response, they fixed all that, AND he started up this group called "Free flow of information on the internet" because that's what he believes in. I clicked on the link to check out the group and read some pretty interesting comments.
Most were just angry about the mini-feed, but one guy agreed that he liked the free flow of information on the web, but that it was a bit scary sometimes because he Googled his name once and found a bunch of information about himself that is floating around out there. Curiosity struck my mind!
And so, I also Googled my own name and found some VERY interesting results. If you are interested, please click below to find out about some multiple me's that out there in the world. hahaha...it's quite entertaining. If you know me and have a few minutes to kill, this is worth it. It's pretty comical.
This guy is actually a professional violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! !!!!!! It's like my dream come true! He also graduated from the Eastman School of Music! I WANTED TO GO THERE! His bio is...wow...I'm reading it and going, "Go, Chris Wu! Yeah!"
Christopher Wu-Pittsburgh Symphony
Apparently, I'm an artist painter too and have some of my works on display at art.com! They're pretty good if I don't say so myself...thank you, thank you
Art.com exhibit
I found some guy with my name with his own personal wedding page! WOOHOO! I'm married too! SWEEEET!!!! HALLELUJAH! Dreams do come true :) I think it's best not to publish his website link on my blog though. BUT, if you do google my name, you'll find his wedding page link there. hehe
No, I'm in a band called blue sky nine...not red light bandits...I like the part that says, "Destined for greatness." Nice
redlightbandits
On American Scientist Online, it says that,
I'm some kind of pro-democracy activist:
I'm the chairman of the National Association of Counsel for Children! WOW. VERY cool!
NACC
And I took the National Chess Competition by storm for the K-1 division! YEAH BABY! It was my third title and I became the youngest player in US HISTORY to win three national titles by the age of seven. I'm wicked smart.
Dean of Chess Home Page
And in case you need an in with Snapfish photos, I'm your man. 'Cause I'm the VP for the Snapfish mobile team! And I used to be the VP for the Yahoo! Mobile team as well. My resume keeps getting better and better.
Snapfish VP
Then there was that time I was at Yale when I was a movie maker. You can read all about it in the Yale Herald
Wu's 'Ghost' film
Along with being the VP of Snapfish, I'm also the VP of mobile imaging for Hewlett-Packard Co. Just a little aside for you to know.
PMA 2006
If I only solved world hunger...but I am helping it little by little as I can give. But for the most part I'll pray and leave that into Daddy's hands.
Anyways, hope that was as entertaining for you as it was for me! If you were bored to tears and thought it was lame-o...sorry...
The original intent was so that you could see what's been going on with all your friends, but it started to turn stalkerish when you would read things like, "Chris got up to get a ham sandwich and had an argument with the mailman today", or "Chris has a blister on his left big toe" and you're like "What?! How the heck did they find that out?!"
No, I'm kidding...they don't know like EVERY personal detail, but it was a little uncomfortable reading through a person's EVERY detail of action that relates to Facebook. "Your friend just made friends with so-and-so." "Petey just accepted so-and-so as their friend." "John is out to lunch." "Bessie just asked Louie to marry her" or something like that. It just listed way too many details about friends that you cared to read or cared to know, honestly.
Some of that stuff is just better left private and not for the entire network of your known friends to see...
Anyways, with all that said (I know, long explanation), the creator of Facebook actually wrote a personal message to all users of the service an apology letter about the mini-feed and the effect that it was having on its users. He wanted to keep the service free from online predators and for it to be a safe environment where friends would enjoy sharing information with each other and keeping in touch while in college and beyond. But with the mini-feed, people were pretty angry.
So, in response, they fixed all that, AND he started up this group called "Free flow of information on the internet" because that's what he believes in. I clicked on the link to check out the group and read some pretty interesting comments.
Most were just angry about the mini-feed, but one guy agreed that he liked the free flow of information on the web, but that it was a bit scary sometimes because he Googled his name once and found a bunch of information about himself that is floating around out there. Curiosity struck my mind!
And so, I also Googled my own name and found some VERY interesting results. If you are interested, please click below to find out about some multiple me's that out there in the world. hahaha...it's quite entertaining. If you know me and have a few minutes to kill, this is worth it. It's pretty comical.
This guy is actually a professional violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! !!!!!! It's like my dream come true! He also graduated from the Eastman School of Music! I WANTED TO GO THERE! His bio is...wow...I'm reading it and going, "Go, Chris Wu! Yeah!"
Christopher Wu-Pittsburgh Symphony
Apparently, I'm an artist painter too and have some of my works on display at art.com! They're pretty good if I don't say so myself...thank you, thank you
Art.com exhibit
I found some guy with my name with his own personal wedding page! WOOHOO! I'm married too! SWEEEET!!!! HALLELUJAH! Dreams do come true :) I think it's best not to publish his website link on my blog though. BUT, if you do google my name, you'll find his wedding page link there. hehe
No, I'm in a band called blue sky nine...not red light bandits...I like the part that says, "Destined for greatness." Nice
redlightbandits
On American Scientist Online, it says that,
"Christopher L. Wu is an assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the director of the Acute Pain Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his M.D. from the Albany Medical College in 1989."SWEET! I'M SMART TOO!
I'm some kind of pro-democracy activist:
"Chris Wu: Leading democracy activist who was jailed for twelve years for dissident activities. Mr. Wu is President of China Spring Magazine, a leading academic journal of the Chinese exile community. He is also Coordinator of the World of Conference for Chinese Pro-Democracy Organizations. (Mr. Wu speaks English) "And apparently, I speak english. DUH.
I'm the chairman of the National Association of Counsel for Children! WOW. VERY cool!
NACC
And I took the National Chess Competition by storm for the K-1 division! YEAH BABY! It was my third title and I became the youngest player in US HISTORY to win three national titles by the age of seven. I'm wicked smart.
Dean of Chess Home Page
And in case you need an in with Snapfish photos, I'm your man. 'Cause I'm the VP for the Snapfish mobile team! And I used to be the VP for the Yahoo! Mobile team as well. My resume keeps getting better and better.
Snapfish VP
Then there was that time I was at Yale when I was a movie maker. You can read all about it in the Yale Herald
Wu's 'Ghost' film
Along with being the VP of Snapfish, I'm also the VP of mobile imaging for Hewlett-Packard Co. Just a little aside for you to know.
PMA 2006
If I only solved world hunger...but I am helping it little by little as I can give. But for the most part I'll pray and leave that into Daddy's hands.
Anyways, hope that was as entertaining for you as it was for me! If you were bored to tears and thought it was lame-o...sorry...
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