Dinhternet

Do you compartmentalize your social networking?

Some people will, for instance, add anyone they have ever met on Facebook, only people they have actually worked with on LinkedIn, and any cool random people they find on Twitter.

I generally add anyone I know to any service I sign up for. I try not to send out automated “please join” letters, though, and only add people that are already using it.

However, because Twitter follows me on my phone, I tried to keep it to people I would actually talk with, and not random cool strangers. Recently, though, I was talking about law school and got added by some law-related people.

One of them was a service that compares your undergrad GPA and grad test scores with those of others who applied to various grad school programs, so you can get an idea of your chances of getting into the programs based on how others fared. (After checking out that site and hearing about Youchen W and Jimmy P getting into law school, I realized that I might have sold myself short, and I should have just tried applying to schools anyway.)

But anyway… this is probably more of an exception than a change in my social networking ways. How do you guys behave across the various networking sites and why?

So I got an interesting letter in the mail the other day. I had actually set up my mail to be forwarded to my Minnesota address the day after I came over here, but Jimmy P says that I still got some at Monster House.

Anyway, a couple of people asked for my snail mail address, so I was kinda sorta expecting something, but what I got was definitely a surprise. It was a letter from Wells Fargo, forwarded from Monster House, informing me that the address on my bank account had been changed to 3829 Polton Place Way, San Jose, CA 95121-1934. The funny thing is, I have no idea where that is. It’s certainly not my address, or any of my previous addresses.

I hopped online to check things out, but looks like all my money is still there. I changed my account to my Minnesota address and also called Joe M and asked him to look into things for me. Today, when I signed onto my account online, I had to answer some security questions. Which is really, really bad security. Instead of having one good password (everyone has a strong password with non-alphanumeric characters, right?), you get three easy-to-crack passwords that are guaranteed to be normal words. Some of the “security question” answers are actually a matter of public record and can be looked up online.

So yeah… everyone be careful with your identities, or someone else could soon be talking with your voice. And credit card.

Oh, and Merry C… that’s why I haven’t transferred rent to you yet… I was a little scared to use my account.

EDIT: I found out this was Lesley M’s address, and the letter was to inform me that ADK’s account had been changed to her address. I forgot that when I transfered the account to Aaron L, he didn’t change the address on it. But still, since I didn’t have my name on the account anymore, you’d think it the letter would have been addressed to Aaron L.

Yesterday…

Man, my mind can’t take it anymore. Woke up at 5:30 because Peggy S was sick, so I covered her chalking shift. Alice C picked Drew M and me up at 5:45 and we were off. First, dropped Drew M off at Kinko’s. He had to print out flyers for Service Fair. Then we went on campus and met up with Bethany W, Jimmy P, Jane L, Liz S, and Sang D for the project. We split up, and Alice C and I took Liz S and hit up Soc Sci, Young, and Olson. Got caught up there, and Bethany W met up again with us there after her crew finished up their side of campus and she sent them home. After the project, Bethany W and Alice C went to Baker’s Square for breakfast, but I went home to pass out.

Woke up again at 10, which is when my first class started. I thought I could sleep for a bit and get ready for my second class, since the first class’ lectures are recorded and put online anyway, so I could just download it later. Then I got caught up online with service and some other stuff like writing a post for my awesome readers, so I missed the bus that would get to school by 12, too. More online stuff, and Peggy S made dumplings for lunch, which I mooched.

Eventually, I did catch the bus, and went to campus for ServiceComm. Too bad no one showed up for it. I talked to a couple folks informally about what we wanted to do, and asked people what they wanted out of service, but not much came out of it. Sat around for a while eating fun-size Laffy Taffies and reading the lame jokes to each other off the wrappers. Quote comes from one of them.

Yeah, here’s the two jokes on my wrapper: “What do pigs put on their cuts?” “Oinkment.” “Why did the ghost sing off-key?” “Because he left his sheet music at home.” Har-dee-har-har.

Went to Peggy S’s Non-Verbal Communication class after her with that. It’s really interesting stuff. Sandy L’s in that class, too, and the professor always makes Korean references – we think his wife must be Korean – which we check with her for accuracy. I left at the break, though, to go to ExComm, which was just outside, because Peggy S’s class is in the same room as the general meeting. ExComm was pretty smooth, and after that was class time again.

Lecture was pretty cool, we saw some videos today illustrating the different approaches to the treatment of mental illness featuring Carl Rogers and Albert Ellis.

After class, caught the bus home with Peggy S, and ran into Andrew M, Emily T, and Mabel H on it. We all sat in the very back like cool kids. When we got home, drove to Murder Burger for dinner. Two Aggie Annihilators for $10.71 is a great deal, but the food in general is going downhill. The burgers aren’t as tasty, the fries are soggier, and they don’t have that great BBQ sauce they had before. Food coma after that.