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“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)

Making Sense of the Social (Web) Networks I Use by Breaking It Down

Making Sense of the Social (Web) Networks I Use by Breaking It Down:

Twitter (or Mimo in Vietnam) is where I go 

a. to post/read interesting quotes/articles/information

b. to ask/discover public questions and seek/provide public answers, especially as it pertains to living in Vietnam (sorry Quora)

c. to plug-in to any socials/events going on in my proximity

d. discover interesting opportunities

Linkedin is where I go

a. to post up my resume

b. to look for jobs and connect with people who can hook it up with jobs

c. to help develop business (mutually)

d. to discover interesting opportunities

Posterous (Wordpress/Tumblr for the majority of others) is where I go

a. to blog (to practice writing)

b. to connect with others through my writing

c. to discover interesting opportunities

Gmail (and how I’m seeing Google+) is where I go

a. to talk privately (and cuss), usually about the controversial with those closest to me

b. to share articles/links/information and discuss them with a smaller/more trusted group of people

c. to ask more private/confidential questions and seek private/confidential answers

d. to discover interesting opportunities

Facebook is where I go 

a. when it rains, I am lonely and don’t want to leave the house 

b. to see what everyone is up to/what people are talking about

c. to find out more about the person I saw at the club/cafe/restaurant and arrange a meeting in hopes of developing a closer relationship

e. to seek emotional feedback from as many people as I can

f. to reach the widest audience possible

g. to discover interesting opportunities

And apparently, the main reason I use any of these Social (Web) Networks: to discover interesting opportunities

Can I cut any of them out?

Twitter: No, because I am connected to some people there more closely than I am in other networks and I find out about a lot of local happenings through it

Linkedin: No, because I can only connect to some certain people in this environment

Posterous: No, because I need a canvas to write in a long-format and share publicly

Gmail: No, because this is my direct line, outside of my cell phone number and I find out about a lot of local happenings through it

Facebook: No, because I need to see how everyone is doing and I find out about a lot of local happenings through it