I’ll be honest. I have my reservations about Facebook. For businesses I think it can be a great way of connecting with customers though Facebook pages, but for those of us with a personal profile I do have concerns about its frequently changing privacy settings. So while I use the site regularly, I do so with some caution.
The news that you can now watch films on Facebook did leave me wondering if this was really something I’d be comfortable doing. After all, I didn’t want every scene of the film to be posted on my Facebook wall, or the walls of my Facebook friends, and I’ve known some Facebook apps to take on a life of their own at times.
I spent many hours as a child trying to complete all six sides of a Rubik's cube, only to discover the only way I was ever going to do it was to dismantle the whole thing and try and put it back together again. Cheating, in other words.
Thankfully Rubik’s Race - the game version of the Rubik’s cube - is a lot easier, less frustrating and the pace of the game is substantially quicker.
It is fair to say that if any family member or close friend of mine had documented my worries, aged eight, on the Internet, I would have permanently disabled their wireless modem faster than you can say the words privacy and respect.
Therefore nothing more is going to be written about IJ's current anxiety issues here on this blog after this post. Because it wouldn’t be right and sometimes it’s very obvious where you draw the line.
Her question today about whether there was a worry shop we could go to find the solution to her constant worrying, brought home the fact that this is an issue that needs to be tackled. But in private and not online.
It was the year one seven-year-old girl predicted the end of the world, but later admitted she'd got her dates wrong. Apparently it’s next year. Just as well we lived 2011 to the full then.
There have been some noticeable highlights in another blogging year that has proved even more unpredictable and varied than the last. According to IJ these include watching me lug a massive box of Scalextric half way across London, touching dinosaur vomit at the Guinness World Records HQ and our day out at London Zoo courtesy of Vosene.
Not forgetting a visit to Alexandra Palace where Jumbo Toys introduced us to their new ipieces range for the ipad, and IJ took to the ice for the first time.
Located between the post I wrote on Christmas Eve and the one I’m planning in the run-up to New Year, there should be a Christmas post. A post detailing our family Christmas with a full range of accompanying images.
Instead there is a very obvious gap.
Christmas has been left largely unmentioned with only the reference to a digital camera acknowledging that it even happened.
Well it did and it was great but at the moment IJ is recovering from a bout of food poisoning. It’s nothing serious but it has been unpleasant and it’s meant I’ve spent rather longer than normal offline, which is no bad thing.
