Going through the comments left on website, I came across a blog also written by a Nigeria albeit one with more literary wizardry and creativity than I can only aspire to attain. One of his articles “Obama’s speech on Nigeria” is quite a good read and provides a satire view on the truly unique but sorry institution that is democracy in Nigeria

I am actually getting tired of people inviting me to join this social network or that social network. I am already a member of more social networks than I can manage - from Flickr to Facebook and so are most of my friends. Yet every now and again someone invites me to join yet another social network.

What is the fascination behind social networks? I mean, (ranting at no-one in particular and everyone in general) I already connected to you through Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. You have my address, email, phone number and even updates on what I am doing daily via Twitter. So why do you think you need to connect to me via another medium? Enough with keeping tabs on me already.

Now don’t get me wrong, I do not have anything against social networking, I just don’t see why you need to be connected to people via every social network you can find. Has it become a thing of pride, or something to brag about? You hear people say, I have 10,000 friends on Myspace or 500 friends on Facebook. I bet you you do not talk to all your 500 Facebook friends, or can even remember half of the people you are connected to on Myspace? So what is the point. The whole point of social networking is to connect to people you are actually interested in either professionally or personally, not just every Tom, Dick and Harry.

What started this little tirade was an invitation to join Plurk, which as far as I can see is just another twitter. Since i am already on twitter, I do not see any reason to become a “plurker”. Well unless they come up with some features that blows twitter out of the water, they will just another twitter to me.

On second thoughts, I do like the look of the advance plurks and the fact that you can share media with it, so inspite of the tirade, if you find me inviting you to follow me on plurk, let’s pretend the first few paragraphs do not exist .

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I recently decided to move to London as part of a career change I am thinking of doing. As part of this process, i decided to use Gumtree to get a feel of what sort of places are out there, how much they generally cost and which areas seem to have the nicer places. About half way through my searching, I came across this beaut of a place, looking at the pictures display, I was expecting to see an asking price of £300 - £400 a week. you can imagine my surprise when I saw £175. My first reaction was disbelief, followed by a healthy dose of skepticism. There must be something wrong with this house for it to be this cheap, however, due to prompting from my girlfriend I contacted the seller to hear what he/she had to say.
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Now, I am talking with regards to a particular race… blacks although it might apply to all races, but as I am black, they are the only ones I can talk about. Anyway, along the way, romance seems to have become the least important thing in the grand scheme of things. Not that we blacks are not romantic, it just seems that voluntarily expressing our affections sometimes can be seen as a sign of weakness. Now, I am just as guilty of this as every other guy, and it can take some prompting and prodding for me to attempt to do anything romantic. Although I do have to admit that seeing the smile on your girls face when you eventually do can make it all worth it.

Just curious, are you guys romantic by choice or demand?