After interrogating various classmates, with all of them refusing to tell me what exactly I was nominated for on Santa’s naughty list (they were made to swear an oath of secrecy to non-attendees), I finally found someone who told me.
I was nominated, apparently, for having 1000+ Facebook friends and updating my status 15 times in 20 minutes. Wow, someone counted?! :P
How can it happen? Well, I have set things up for automatic updates. When I update my blog, it pings Twitter so that my Twitter subscribers are alerted to a new blog post. And when Twitter is updated, my Facebook status is updated automatically as well. It is a whole chain of events. You can call it an assembly line with no bottleneck. Of course, I can also choose to Twitter without blogging, and update my Facebook status without blogging or Twittering. So you can imagine the potential here.
Having said that, I don’t think I could have done 15 updates in 20 minutes! But I might just do that now to prove your point. Since I’m naughty already, I have to live up to the reputation, no?
I guess it doesn’t help to announce I just added 2 more friends this evening. Actually a few hundred friends come from INSEAD alone, and because I also joined our juniors’ Facebook group a lot of them have become my Facebook friends too. I have many friends from other schools and workplaces. Then there are 200 odd people I play Mob Wars with, and I don’t know them in person and they can only view my Limited Profile. Apart from that and several other random friends of friends or people I’ve met online via blogs or other community channels, I know everyone else personally.
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