By Lindsey Campbell, Captains of Industry
Hey Captains’ Readers,
Here’s your Friday Deal:
1. Nice mug shot
Since 2004, I’ve sported a variety of pictures on my Facebook page. They’ve ranged from holding a blowup doll named Sanchez at my friend’s bachelorette party, to holding my masters’ degree at my college graduation. However, my most recent picture has caused quite the stir among my Facebook posse. In the offending photo, my eyes are crossed and I’m sticking out my tongue. I look ridiculous, but who cares? Well apparently my friends do. Not only did a slew of them comment on my photo, but one actually made a plea for me to take it down. His post read, “Linds, For the sake of the greater Facebook community. Please take this picture down.” Nice, huh?
Well according to Davd Meerman Scott, the impression people have of your Facebook, blog or Twitter photo is almost as important as what your company logo looks like. Scott explains, “The photo you choose to represent you says a great deal about who you are as an individual.” And he listed a few things to consider before posting: Should your photo be casual or professional? Will someone else be in your photo or will you have a prop? Will work clothes do, or would more casual clothes suffice? Should you even use a photo at all?
In my opinion, it all really comes down to why you use social networking in the first place. If it’s mostly for work, a professional photo might be the best choice. But if you’re using Facebook and Twitter primarily for personal or social reasons, then I say get creative. Be silly. Be serious. Be outrageous. Just be YOU. Otherwise what fun is there in having a page at all?
PS: I still haven’t taken down my photo. What can I say? I gotta do me.
2. Babies are like superheroes and dogs
When you were a little poop machine, you actually had more Clark Kent-like super powers than you do now as full-grown poop machine. Take a look at the all the ultimate cosmic power your tiny body used to hold until growing up got in the way of your plans for total domination.
1. Tiny Telepathy: Since babies don’t understand how to verbalize their wants and needs, they get “creepily skilled” at reading body language. So like dogs, they can sense when you don’t like them and will use their tiny extremities to make a beeline straight for any baby-hater on the premises. The truly evil babes will speak to you in indecipherable gurgles until you have at least one uterus pang. True story.
2. Expert Eyesight: Tiny humans don’t have a heck of a lot to do. They eat, poop, sleep, poop, cry and poop. You get the idea. So they have a lot of time to recognize and memorize detail. But as we begin to grow, our schedules get more jam packed (what with learning our A,B,C’s and 1,2,3’s) and we train our brains to focus only on the “important” differences in the details around us. Thus our supervision goes out the window and we eventually morph into robots that can hardly look up from our Blackberries, never mind noticing the subtle difference between Eggshell and Egg Cru.
3. Hyper Hearing: Similar to our eyesight, our hearing as tykes is quite acute. In fact, after just a few days out of the womb, we can understand the difference between our native tongue and a foreign language. But once we begin to age, and have learned the delicate dance of “selective hearing,” we no longer hear our parents asking to be home by 10 P.M., but distinctly remembered hearing 2 A.M.
Read more about babies’ mutant metabolisms and mega minds at Cracked.com. You’ll be amazed at how skilled you used to be before you could even say, “Up, up and away.”
3. Drink beer rather than milking cows
In the age of avatars, video games and high-tech electronics, we’ve all gotten used to the idea of simulated life. Even the stigma is wearing off. It’s now considered “normal” for people to log in hundreds of hours on games like FarmVille on Facebook. And while planting some peach trees and milking the cows can be fun, Moosehead beer’s latest commercial has a better idea. Why not get off your lazy butt and drink some beer outside with your friends?
On that note.
Until Monday,
Captain Lindsey
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