Twitter gets a lot of flack, mostly from people who use Facebook and don’t understand how it works, quite a few comments from people that have never checked it out, and of course the Daily Mail here, here, here, here and here. Of course, anything that causes that many articles in the Daily Mail must be a good thing. I’ve once again closed my Facebook account, partly for reasons of spending probably far too much time getting dragged into reading status updates; partly to avoid ever getting involved in Farmville; partly because I’m shocked about their privacy policies, or lack of them.

Facebook bad. Twitter good

I’ve created this handy cut out and keep reference card in case anyone asks me why I’ve not updated my Facebook status, which I toned down from my original Hitler Vs Jesus design, well, it was controversial.

I haven’t mentioned Linked In, which I’m also on, but that mainly seems to be useful for desperate Job Agency types to meet with desperate Job Seekers, but that’s it. Buzz is ok, but I’m on Twitter now. Fine.

Anyway, what do you think is the future of social media?

Brilliant I love taking stuff apart

Have just taken apart JB’s GHDs and repaired them thanks to the guy at GHD Repair, who I can totally recommend for spare bits.

Not only did it save us some cash, but I also get massive brownie points.

The only way to safely work on a car

After spending some time getting my hands dirty working on the car, I’ve decided I could only benefit from getting one of these jacks.

However, it was a first stab and there are definitely things we can do to improve it. One of those would be improvement of the site design. In it’s current state the content and layout are more or less the same thing. We started the project with a bundle of enthusiam, but no actual decisions on how we were going to make it happen or what we wanted it to look like, so it’s basically evolved into it’s current design.

Seperating content from layout will mean we can steer clear of the backend development stuff, and play with the look and feel of the site without the risk of breaking the code. Which happens quite a lot – neither myself or James come from a formal development background. The other thing we’ll probably do it clean up the code, and chuck in a few more features. I’ve had a few more ideas about what we can do with it since we started development, so the future of the site could be interesting.

All this is dependant on time, and weather – so all this probably won’t happen until the days start getting dreary again. Hey, it’s sunny in England right now!

Must… not… buy… netbook…

The only highlight of Facebook was keeping track of friend updates, which Twitter has taken over in a faster and less annoying way. The really annoying part of Facebook was people inviting you to stuff in it, not finding out because I never logged in, and finding out at the last minute. So for now, people will have to resort to emailing, twittering, google talking, sms’ing, or FSM forbid, calling me.

As well as starting to look like a website and being possibly the quickest way to find out if a movie is worth seeing or not, it’s becoming feature packed. Exciting new features added only this week include:

• Twitter Integration – Tweets when you vote on a recent movie
• Wordpress Support – Wordpress Plugin is now available to report the latest vote you submitted
• Rework of Actor Rating – It’s so complicated I can’t begin to explain
• RSS Feed – Keep track of who has been voting for what
• Layout – Site design has been improved dramatically with AJAX voting and updates
• Other Stuff – Lots of fixes have been sorted out behind the scenes, mostly to help us keep things up to date with a full CMS system which is nearly there.

Register. Vote. Fun. Give it a go.

2StateReviews is a movie review website with the fast track system of “See” or “Don’t See” to tell if a movie is worth watching. Anyone interested please go ahead and take a look. Feedback welcome either here or on the site itself. Thankyou!