Online social networks have rapidly increased in popularity, especially over the past couple of years. Social networking websites are popular because they easily allow you to find, connect with, and develop friendships with other internet users, often ones that share the same interests as you. To find those individuals, you must join a social networking website and create a profile. It is often advertised that your social networking profile is the key to making and finding friends online.

As previously mentioned, your social networking profile is important when it comes to meeting other internet users. This is because, in most cases, internet users are looking to chat with someone who has the same goals, views, beliefs, and interests as they do. Without a personal profile, it would be difficult or impossible to tell what your interests are. That is why social networking profiles are not only important, but they are needed.

When it comes to social networking profiles, a lot of focus has been placed on what you should include in your profile or display on your profile page. It has been said that pictures produce the best responses, as well as detailed personal information. Although a picture and detailed personal information may help to increase your page views, you may be getting views that you do not necessarily want. Despite what you may believe, most social networking websites do not have restrictions on who can view your personal profile. In fact, internet users, even those that do not belong to your online community, can easily see profile.

Since anyone, literally anyone, can see your social networking profile, on most social networking websites, you are advised to be cautious. Essentially, this means that instead of focusing on what you should put in your online profile, you should be focusing on what not to put. This is one the best ways to protect your safety, both on and offline.

As previously mentioned, pictures are often recommended with social networking websites. If you are interested in positing a personal picture of yourself in your online profile you can do so, but you are advised to carefully choose that picture. While you will want to look your best, you are advised against posting a picture that is too revealing or seductive in nature. Most internet users can look at these types of pictures without feeling a thing, but for others these types of pictures spell danger.

If you make the decision to post a picture of yourself in your social networking website profile, you need to be careful about the rest of the information that you post. Although you may not necessarily think about it, a picture is just a picture, but combined with your name and address, it could be a deadly combination. You are advised to only post your first name in your profile. This will make it more difficult for anyone to try and contact you off of the internet.

It is also advised that you carefully choose your location. A large number of online social networking sites require that you select a city, as well as a state. If it is allowed, you may only wish to list your state and not the city. If you are required to list the city and the state that you live in, you may want to think about using a nearby city or town, especially if you live in a small town. If an internet predator wanted to contact you and you lived in a small town, it could be fairly easy for them to find you. That is why it is advised that you carefully select the answer to the location question.

In addition to the above precautionary measures, it is advised that you do not post detailed information on your children, the location of your home, your income, or when you will be leaving for vacation. By keeping these and the above mentioned points in mind, you should be able to enjoy online social networking without having to always look behind your back.

Here’s what recycling means today: Trade in old iPods, cell phones, etc. for dollars. I scrounged around our home and found unused electronics worth $250 or more. Sure beats searching the couch for coins.

Source: Electronics World of Current and Latest Info

Tasks Pro is a web based task manager. An upgrade from Tasks Jr. and Tasks, it puts all your tasks in an organized structure that is accessible to everyone who needs to be a part of the project at hand.

Task management can cause trouble in the ranks if not set up properly and handled well. When a number of people are in charge of getting a project done and those people don’t have access to the information needed things can quickly fall apart. With Tasks Pro these types of situations can easily be handled.

The program allows numerous people to work on selected projects together or apart. With features such as setting due dates and priority dates, publishing calendars, receiving automatic email notifications and being able to leave each other important notes, every step of a project from beginning to end is taken care of.

It’s easy to set up tasks and give access to only those you want to have access to it as well as set it up to notify those people when changes have been made to the project.

Task Pro works on all types of computers and is accessible from any location there is Internet access. It can be accessed by any number of people all at the same time. If you have an assistant on the other side of the world, he or she will still know exactly what is going on and what is expected of them.

Anyone who has a multi person project should try Task Pro. It will bring all your assistants, tasks and results together in one central location, making it easier for everyone involved.

Gas prices are insane lately. I stumbled upon this interesting little site today during lunch. Using FuelFrog you can track your gas mileage by entering the miles you traveled on your last tank, the price you paid, and how many gallons you added to your car. FuelFrog will compile and trend information about your gas mileage, the amount you spend, and all sorts of other nifty info. In the near future, you’ll be able to compare your vehicle to others and see how you stack up.

And to make this tool even cooler, it has the ability for you to use it via Twitter! You tweet your fuel data (miles, price, gallons–MPG) @fuelfrog and wa-la!! These guys are so on top of the geekdom they even have a Smartphone app for posting to FuelFrog.

The service is still a little new, but it’s got some very cool features and if you’re watching your gas budget it might just come in handy. Check it out!

: twitter, fuelfrog, gas mileage, gas prices

You already know that I like a funny video, and I hate Barbie. So, here’s a funny Barbie video from Gonnabe.com.

Meet Gold Digger Brandie! How could I not love this? Barbie makes me want to hurl. Thank goodness I have four little boys. I do have nieces, but I’m fortunate in that my niece loves Hello Kitty and Strawberry Shortcake! Whew, what a relief. When I was a little girl and my aunt bought me a Barbie I pulled it’s head off and melted it’s body parts in a pot. My grandmother wasn’t too happy about that, I ruined one of her best small kitchen pots. Oops. But, even as a little girl I loathed that plastic boobified little doll.

LOL - now that you all think I’m totally crazy … I hope you enjoyed the funny video from Gonnabe.com as much as I did, I wonder if we’ll see more of these spoofs in the future.

We’ve only just begun looking at house for rent listings, and already I am tired of hearing about carpet, linoleum, vinyl shutters, and how incredible new windows are to have. Blah, blah, blah, tell me how much it is, when I can look at it, and please tell me you’ll hold it for more than a week if I give you a security deposit. Some people won’t even show us places because we don’t want to move tomorrow… we want to move in June. It is making me insane! If you live in the Hampton Roads area and you have a house for rent … I will be your new best friend. LOL

Memory that is. I wish my actual memory were expandable and not just my computer memory. Then maybe I’d remember to actual do things on occasion. LOL But, seriously. Is there such a thing as too much memory? Are the computers with 5gb memory just showing off? What could you possibly to do to take up that much memory anyhow? I barely take up a tiny fraction of the 1gb on my laptop and 2gb on my desktop. It’s literally just teeny tiny sliver in the pie graph that says how much memory I’m using. So, tell me, what does one do with 5gb of memory? Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.