For those who enjoy watching comedies – or those who are occasionally roped into watching a flick they didn’t choose – you’ve undoubtedly seen Wedding Crashers, a 2005 film starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. The two characters, friends since childhood, are skilled wedding “crashers,” meaning they attend post-nuptial parties – sans invitation – for the sole intention of meeting women. And it works. But, chances are the rest of us don’t have the same smooth-talking skills (and when I say “smooth talking” I mean “ability to lie”), or the same access to wedding schedules that the magic that Hollywood scripts can provide. Well, fret no more. Thanks to the ever-growing creativity of app writers, there is now a way to find pre-crashed weddings via technology.
Tagged: applications
SEO for Mobile Applications
By Kelsey Jones
Although it is a fairly new platform, mobile applications are growing in the thousands every year, most with free and/or paid versions. The free versions usually have ads to cover the development costs and eventually produce a revenue.
Even though mobile applications can bring in thousands in revenue for developers and companies, the thought of using SEO for application descriptions seems very rudimentary and even “Black Hat” when compared to the traditional online SEO applications that we use for websites. Many application descriptions include keywords at the end:
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How to Protect Yourself on Mobile Check-In Applications
By Kelsey Jones
Mobile check-in and geo-location applications like Gowalla, Foursquare, Yelp, and Facebook Places can be great for finding out where friends are, gathering badges, and even earning specials. However, for people who aren’t careful, mobile check-in applications can pose a risk, especially if the person in danger of being followed (e.g. via an ex-boyfriend).
However, there are several things a user can do to still take advantage of mobile check-in application perks while being safe and aware of what they are posting online.
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B-Sides: Why Have Applications Taken Over Facebook?
by Bethaney Wallace
Remember when email from a friend was something to trust, a legitimate email worth reading? Sure there was always spam, but emails from friends were safe. Back when an email titled “Clarence Jones has poked you” would be considered offensive; when your friend Sal wanted you to join the real mafia? These were the times back before Facebook.com infiltrated your inbox with useless reminders of computerized farms and narcissistic quizzes. When Facebook was just a social networking website connecting old friends.
But now, unfortunately, we’re now in a reality where “elf tossing” has be considered socially acceptable. Which leaves me with more questions than answers: How does one respond to such action? Is it better to heave the medium-sized elf or the “above average size”? And finally what is the proper retaliation? Sling-shotting a dragon or cannon balling a wasps nest?
Congratulations Mark Zuckerberg, you have managed to take a perfectly respectable social networking website and turn it into the next Myspace; from up-and-coming stalking site to an advertising-hungry has-been. Facebook has sold out to tween girls everywhere through features causing users to self-obsess. The site is also losing credibility via bombarding its members with quizzes, games, and other general wastes of time.
Applications are granted a section where users are allowed to “like” a page or post by clicking a thumbs up; therefore the more “likes”, the more popular the app is, and eventually only adding to the problem. Not only do applications take pages longer to load, they scare users from adding something that might actually be useful, such as the awareness or causes pages. After one encounters so many “Which Beastie Boy are you?” or “What letter does your best friend’s mother’s second cousin’s name start with?” requests, it’s hard to take anything with the name “Facebook” on it seriously. Thanks to the damage of applications, the ol’ FB is becoming about as credible as the National Enquirer’s front page.
However, for those of us still wishing to join or maintain your Facebook page, I have one simple rule for survival: IGNORE. Next time your inbox fills with pointless application invites, simply ignore the request and better yet the “friend” who sent it to you. Eventually they will get the hint, and bother others with their ridiculous requests. However, for those who are still sending the “rate my applications” pages, there’s always the de-friending option. And as for you Facebook … thumbs down. Thumbs down.
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Bethaney Wallace is a English Literature and Creative Writing Major at K-State. When she’s not ranting for The Social Robot, Bethaney is co-copy editor at the K-State Collegian and attempting to finish her last semester of school.
Image courtesy of: http://biobreak.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/a-brief-rant/
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