My recurring New Year Resolution is to use social networks other than Facebook before I use Facebook, for as long as I can stand to keep it up (I usually last about a month).

This year you can find me on the following sites:

https://www.reddit.com/user/sparr/submitted/ Reddit is a very popular meta-forum site with hundreds of millions of users ( Read more... )

Every year I commit to seriously using social networks other than Facebook. I read my news feed on other networks before visiting FB. I cross post things to other networks in addition to FB. This usually lasts for a few weeks, some years a couple of months, before the effort becomes too much and I fall back to just using FB and Reddit again with ( Read more... )

Every year around the holidays I make a new year resolution to spend more time on less popular social networks and social media sites. I like to keep up with what new options are out there and revisit older platforms that I still have connections on. There are also plenty of reasons to avoid Facebook, and lately there's been enough ruckus about ( Read more... )

Put more money into savings. One year of 12.5% contribution to my 401(k) has made up for multiple years of low/no retirement savings. The first year worth of stock grant at my employer also just vested, so that's a start to my short/medium-term savings (so I can buy a house in a year or three, maybe ( Read more... )

2008 has come and gone, and I think I will label it my best year yet. It had some low points, but overall a massive improvement over previous years, and a good indicator of things to come.
( The good, the bad, and the ugly. )