Barbara: Exit 4 off the New Jersey Turnpike, which lands you 4 miles from my home in Cherry Hill. Yes, "what exit" is a very common question in NJ, and you will frequently find magnets with numbers on the back of people's cars to represent their favority exits. There is no other information - just a number, and we all know what that is in reference to around here. See you soon...?
BTW - my wife is a cat-loving, Cheeto-eating, wife-of-a-muscle-car-driving, ... well, you get the idea!!
Maybe Apple knows something Nokia doesn't (or, for that matter, none of us know). It could relate to amount of visits to the website but they don't place ads, so that doesn't really matter.
Maybe they hate Facebook and simply don't want to.
I think there's value to companies having twitter and facebook. My experience is that for simple questions and even reports, those channels work better than the others.
Barbara: strangely enough, the demographic that you "defined" is not a very small group. In fact, you may have nailed a high percentage of the male population! ...but we love you anyway, and wear that demographic as a badge of honor.
Bolaji: Hang onto that dream!! Some day, you might have good luck and find that dream car. By the way, I define "good luck" as a situation where preparation meets opportunity - i.e. you are ready to buy a car and the right one just happens to be within your reach. I hope your dream comes true as it has done for me ... twice! The first car was a blue 1968 Pontiac Firebird convertible with a 400 engine, a white top, and 15" Crager SS rims. It was perfect ... until I lost my job and couldn't make the payments any more.
In any case, it sounds like the three of us would have a fun time hanging out together. Come to New Jersey, and we will make it a party.
As a avid reader of your site, I was very happy to see this article and can't agree with you more. The inability of most sites to provide relevant information or offer any degree of useful interactivity can lead to a long and frustrated journey. However, after visiting www.ecliptek.com I believe I may have found the light at the end of tunnel.
TimKarr and Bolaji: see, you two have something in common, so you should create a group or better yet, build your own social networking site! I know there's a market out there for beer-guzzling, women-ogling, cat-hating, muscle-car loving snack food addicts (did I get that right? It's been so long since I slammed that particular demographic)
Good point Bolaji, it brings to me webmasters' companies could put beside socials' icons a basic link for providing guidelines in "netiquette moderation". Maybe it will be next frontier for socials.
TimKarr2000, My muscle vehicle is still only in my imagination. Perhaps you can help me select the best. I do love the idea of having a muscle car though. It's fun, interesting and maybe a bit odd to be so passionate about something you don't have. But that's me. From my teenage years when I first saw a convertible Mercedes 450SEL (I believe that's what I saw though it's been so long now I can't be sure) I've longed to own one. I also have read or viewed some of the Ford muscle cars and know I would like to own one.
Matteo, Yes, humans are social beings and like to surround themselves with people who share similar things. But even a social animal should not be suffocated with the things we like -- everything in moderation, I guess.
@Barbara: it's true, definitely; there's, as unconscious attitude, the interest in propagating products of our mind and it is nothing but the ego...hope to avoid that by leaving this post !
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