So this is a two part update one on Easter Seals and the second on my week long test of Foursquare.

As for Easter Seals I’ve reached a milestone of just over $1,500 or 43% of my goal.  It significant because I can now take part in the actual Drop Zone where I’ll rappel down the Sutton Place hotel in Edmonton.  I’m VERY excited to have reached this milestone however we are still just under $2,000 from raising the goal of $3,500. I’ve put out a challenge to my whopping 200 friends on Facebook if they could just bag a lunch one day, or maybe cut out 3-4 Starbucks coffee’s one month, they could donate $20 dollars each which would raise $4,000 dollars.  If you reading this wanted to jump on that challenge all the power to you. The power of numbers working right there! To sum it up, in 2 weeks we’ve been able to raise $1,500, that’s pretty cool.  If anyone has suggestions on how to raise money or has done something like this I’m all ears.

Again you can see my donation page here -

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1042653&langPref=en-CA

Some could say I’m a social media junkie, however I’m not as crazy as most people out there that really live their whole lives online.  I cannot do that, I need to meet real people face to face.  I do respect that people born today and in the last 10 years have really been borne into this type of communication.  So my latest foray into the social media spectrum was Foursquare and I said I’d give it a week to try it out.  Well it’s been a week and to be honest I’ve yet to see the point of this social media site.  The main idea is to “check in” to the places you visit. You don’t get anything other then points which mean nothing.  You can also get badges for different amounts of check in’s depending on the place you visit.  Basically it’s sharing your location with friends which is about the same as sharing that your about to visit the bathroom.  If I wanted to share my location I can easily do that on Twitter or Facebook which are my main social media applications.  Foursquare really is a narcissistic site which assumes that people are interested in the places you visit when really, 99.9% of them could care less.  I guess if Foursquare actually gave you something tangible in return then maybe it would be worth it, but becoming a Mayor at the place you work? LOL really?  Becoming the Mayor of a coffee shop? What point is that really?  Nobody cares that you checked in, you don’t get anything but some silly points which you cannot use for anything.  Might as well give me 10000 points cause it means jack sh*t.

With that I’ve closed my Foursquare account because its just one more thing to check, one more thing that takes me away from real life, and one more time waster.  Peace out Foursquare.