thirstythong

“But the most significant derivation from the meaning of as ‘water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war: from ‘water,’ its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’ It is in this ultimate exception that the monosyllable nuoc reverberates throught the deepest and farthest recesses of the Vietnamese collective unconscious and stirs there the most potent feelings. The nation’s fateful course, marked by ups and downs, is figuratively rendered as a ‘tide of water’ (van nuoc) with its ebb and flow. The highest virtue demanded of a Vietnamese is that he or she ‘love the nuoc‘ (yeu nuoc).” –Huynh Sanh Thong (no relation)

Google+ Real Talk

Google+ is basically Facebook

Facebook has all your friends updates in one long-ass stream of updates (and real talk: you don’t truly care about/know 95% of them)

BUT

Google+ basically gives you the update on the 5% of your friends you truly care about (or at least comfortable to be clownin’ on REAL TALK)

Real talk: I better be able to get hella my (close) friends on this shit or I ain’t ever gonna use it. REAL TALK.

Living in Vietnam, Google+ will be loading faster than Facebook because any website other than Facebook loads faster in Vietnam! REAL TALK

Google+ won’t let me write on people’s walls, STUPID

Basically, instead of using gmail threads to talk shit to each other, we can use Google+ to talk shit to each other

Google+ streamlines your friends - I can already see Facebook baking this feature into Facebook in a couple of weeks after jockin’ Google+ - to kill Google+

Google+ is fast!

My friend Henry says Google+ is really fast in uploading pictures, especially if you use Picasa (Google’s Flickr)

Real Life Example:

My friends and I talk shit to each other through gmail and the Yahoo Fantasy Basketball forums because it’s private.

We can’t do it on Facebook because it’s too public.

Google+ will allow us to talk shit to each other in a Facebook-looking format accordingly.