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It’s all about the presence

August 3, 2014 by MsCheevious

 

I was recently trying to describe the task it is to manage the number of online profiles I am responsible for. I explained it as such:

My days are FILLED with status posting, sharing, photographing interesting events or items, sharing those, responding, surfing the internet for useful tips for my followers and posting again – ALL ON MULTIPLE PLATFORMS FOR MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS.

Then I write blogs, and write articles for LiveStrong and Huffington Post. AND I WRITE BOOKS, YOU GUYS!!!

What I did NOT say is what that involves for certain specific accounts. There are “duties” I take care of almost every day which are extremely time consuming, and generally take about half of my work-day to complete.

I know. BAT.SHIT.CRAZY.

Bat Shit Crazy from too much Social Media?

I finally asked this question:

How do you think you would fare trying to create and manage an internet footprint like mine?

 


FOOTPRINT

 

Just to give you an idea, I keep all of my online passwords in a password-protected Word document. This document is 39 (YES, THIRTY-NINE) pages long.

Here are the social media platforms I maintain a presence for. Let’s hope this stuff starts to pay-off in GREENBACKS, un-kay? The pay-off has already begun, so I’m not too worried. It just takes diligence.

(Feel free to follow any of these. Get busy, unless you plan to do what Cady McClain advises in her blog, in which case, you are absolved).  

Before you read any further, full disclosure: I CHEAT.

USEFUL TOOL: MUCH of the regular work I do on Twitter is done through a huge control panel called TWEETDECK (which allows you to add multiple Twitter accounts, as well as columns tracking hashtags, lists of followers (as in “MsCheevious Fans” or whatever). Others use HootSuite or Gremlin to do the same thing, but I like TweetDeck. It enables me to have conversations and reply to people without logging in and out of various accounts, and I can tweet LIVE from any of those accounts easily from within the control panel.

SCHEDULING STATUS UPDATES & TWEETS: Additionally I use an automated scheduling service called SENDIBLE.COM which enables me to schedule in advance any tweets, pinterest photos, youtube videos, blog posts, facebook posts, google plus status and photos, pretty much ANYTHING I WANT TO POST. This is tremendous if utilized properly. Twitter will not allow you to tweet the same thing more than once every 12 hours, nor should you. But with Sendible, I can schedule interesting articles related to my brand to go out once every couple of months or so (and for up to a year or so, depending on relevance) (for MsCheevious the brand may be: Flirtiness, Sassy Mommy tips, Dating, Relationships. LisaJey: Fitness, Relationships, Health. Jey Associates: Best PR Practices, etc), and this makes my life so much easier. Also if networking friends ask for me to help them promote an event, I can do short term scheduling in one sitting. I have done GREAT things with this scheduler, including increasing my internet presence, helping others, who in turn help me. And I have WON SOME EXCEPTIONAL PRIZES with my mad social media skills. Just sayin’.

TWITTER

SPECIAL DUTIES IN ADDITION TO ABOVE:

Monday: Tweet MondayBlogs for my blog/author friends. Retweet all applicable. Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above!
Tuesday: Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above!
Wednesday: Tweet Dating Blogger posts for and with my dating/relationship blogger friends. Grab photos from blog posts, copy, paste and share in each tweet if possible. Retweet all applicable. Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Woman Crush Wednesday if time.
Thursday: Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Throwback Thursday if time.
Friday: Follow Friday reciprocation, and responses. Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! I do not do #flashbackfriday here because too much going on with #FollowFriday and #FF (unless I am inspired).

Accounts I manage:

@LisaJey (me)

@MsCheevious (me)

@EmceeNug (my beau)

@CLIENT (Actor, Tom Schanley – mainly just responses, follows, retweets and sending occasional news tweets)

@MY_SISTER (Judy Sherwood Graphic Design)

@MY_BUSINESS (Jey Associates)

@ONE_OF_MY_OTHER_BIZ_ACCTS (Red Carpet Xpress)

 

FACEBOOK

SPECIAL DUTIES IN ADDITION TO ABOVE:

Monday: Issue MondayBlogs post on networking group’s wall. Copy their tweets to Twitter and share their posts on all other profiles. Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Visit author networking groups and vote on Amazon reviews, goodreads lists, like pages, tweet special announcements and so on for members of the group.
Tuesday: Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Visit author networking groups and vote on Amazon reviews, goodreads lists, like pages, tweet special announcements and so on for members of the group.!
Wednesday: Visit Dating Blogger group for new blog posts to read/share/comment on. Visit blogger’s “pages” to share posts onto FB from there. Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Woman Crush Wednesday if time. Visit author networking groups and vote on Amazon reviews, goodreads lists, like pages, tweet special announcements and so on for members of the group.
Thursday: Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Throwback Thursday if time. Visit author networking groups and vote on Amazon reviews, goodreads lists, like pages, tweet special announcements and so on for members of the group.
Friday: Do all of the (My days are filled with) duties listed above! Flashback Friday if time. Visit author networking groups and vote on Amazon reviews, goodreads lists, like pages, tweet special announcements and so on for members of the group.

Each day, if anyone of my networking group members needs a special favor, I try to do it for them: share an important announcement, share about an event, help them block an abusive commenter on HuffPost, whatever. It is all reciprocal, and they also reciprocate when I need a favor.

My Accounts (follow these too!):

My Personal Profile – FOLLOW my public posts!

Lisa Jey Davis Author

Ms. Cheevious

M.C. Nugget

Jey Associates

Tom Schanley (client. Tom also helps manage his, so this one is easy, peasy.)

 

Just assume all of the rest of these platforms below require all of the same work, but here are a few details and the accounts I have for each:

GOOGLE PLUS

ALL OF THE SAME AS FACEBOOK, IN ADDITION TO SOME COOL GOOGLE+ ONLY CONTENT – FUN PHOTOS, JOKES, AND MORE (without the networking groups. I simply post FB networking group posts and such to G+ in addition to everywhere else).

Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood

Lisa Jey Davis Author Page

Lisa Jey Davis

 

TRIBERR & STUMBLED UPON

I am in a Tribe that “Tweets” and Stumbles EVERY.SINGLE.BLOG.POST we write. But it too is reciprocal. I must also go and share, share, share all of the tribe members’ posts as well!

Lisa Jey Davis – FOLLOW ME THERE IF YOU DARE. LOL!

 

YOUTUBE

This one is unique in that you do not necessarily “SHARE” people’s posts. You “like” and comment, and hopefully they “like” and comment in return. People can subscribe to users. FEEL FREE TO SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNELS. I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER.

Before getting likes or comments, however, you must RECORD, EDIT and POST videos that are watch-worthy. Many of these accounts do not have recent content, because they haven’t proven to be super beneficial.

Lisa Jey Davis Author

Ms. Cheevious

Jey Associates

LJEY’s

Emcee Nugget

Fred the Wonder Chicken

INSTAGRAM

Lisa Jey Davis

Ms. Cheevious

Jey Associates

 

LINKEDIN <=== click there to follow Lisa Jey Davis

 

KLOUT

Lisa Jey Davis

Ms. Cheevious

 

PINTEREST

Lisa Jey Davis

Ms. Cheevious

 

AMAZON (AUTHOR & REVIEWER)

Lisa Jey Davis (Feel free to “like” this!)

 

I’m probably missing some obvious ones. There are brand new accounts I didn’t bother to mention as I’ve joined and am yet to engage.

 

 


The following are sites I do not do much that is LIVE and in person. Some are platforms that other sites (like Instagram or others) will auto-post to if you want them to. If you’d like to follow me on any of these platforms, contact me to get my profile address!

 

FOURSQUARE

YELP

PHEED

WATTPAD

FUNNY OR DIE

SOUNDCLOUD

BLOG LOVIN

FLICKR

DEL.ICIO.US

DIGG

MYSPACE

ALL OF MY BLOGS (YOU DON’T EVEN WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY I HAVE)

 

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This one is for the stalkers

September 13, 2013 by MsCheevious

I received a comment on a Facebook post today that said something like, “I love all your quotes and follow you like a stalker.”

Sniff, sniff. It warms my heart to know I have my very own stalker!

You know I mean that facetiously, right? True stalkers are no laughing matter.

Nevertheless, I’ve had more than a couple of people “do” what I “do” in regard to my approach to — well, a lot of this online stuff. Whether it’s an innovative approach to writing a blog post, a different way to use facebook page entries to engage fans, employing unique phrasing for Twitter’s #FollowFridays, or the way I announce that I’ve given Klout to someone, and so on…. they see it, and then some of them do it. It’s that simple!

 

I’ve thought long and hard about why this is the case, because even though I would love it to be because I’m simply brilliant, I think there is more to it. Maybe it’s because of our age group? Because god knows there has got to be thousands of twenty-something emo-beatnick kids out there coming up with REALLY f-ing unique shit.

But maybe it’s because I don’t simply accept the way things are “supposed to be” and am merely willing to take risks and step outside of the borders?  

I suppose why is irrelevant though, because regardless, I’ve seen my share of monkey-see-monkey-doers.

Some might call this plagiarism or at best unoriginal, but I don’t! I simply adore it!

Before you ask yourself why, ask this question: Do you think I was the first one to write an original #FollowFriday tweet?

Hell no.

Although I may joke to the contrary, I’ll say it right here and now, and only once:

I did not invent cool. 

There.

I’ve just thrown a little bone to you quasi-stalkers out there. Because I love you for all of your copycat ways.

Keep up the good work.

Filed Under: Daily Mischief Tagged With: blog, copycat, daily mischief, Facebook, follow fridays, Klout, Ms. Cheevious, MsCheevious, Stalkers, Twitter

Are You Ms. Cheevious?

June 10, 2012 by MsCheevious

The title of this article is literal. I really do want to know whether you embody all of the qualities of mischief, therefore making you a Ms. Cheevious girl or guy. But in asking the question “Are you Ms. Cheevious?” it makes me think of what would be a very clever slant to another article. That article would tell you all about how I was asked by an adoring fan whether I was the real Ms. Cheevious. Isn’t that just simply fabulous? Just the idea! But that means “Ms. Cheevious” would have to be super uber famous. So we’ll reserve that story for a day when the mysterious moniker of “Ms. Cheevious” is super uber famous. I can dream, can’t I? After all, unless people read the blog regularly, watch the videos on YouTube, follow on Facebook or actually click the pics on my Twitter profile, how would they really know what I look like? I use one of my paintings as my Avatar, for goddsakes! It could happen. The Ms. Cheevious avatar could become more famous than the me underneath and behind it all. Ahhhh, that’ll be the day people… and mark my words people, that day is coming. I’ll use this article title again. It will be the one and only time I will allow the use of a title more than once. But I digress.

As to the real question of “Are YOU Ms. Cheevious?” well, I can help you out there.  If you possess at least two of the below listed qualities of mischief, then you my dear are indeed a Ms. Cheevious guy or girl. Welcome to the fold.

But first, the definition (with Ms. Cheevious modifications, of course):

mis·chie·vous/ˈmisCHivəs/
Adjective:

  1. (of a person, animal, or their behavior) Causing or showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way: “two mischievous kittens”.

Noun:

  1. a person or animal who exhibits the qualities of the adjective (above), or who also exhibits any of its synonyms and the synonym’s synonyms.  “Mischievous (also pronounced MisCHEE-Vee-əs) loves company”

Synonyms:    naughty – impish – prankish – playful – wicked – rascally – puckish

THE LIST

 

1. You never get hangovers. It’s true. I’m told I have some extra enzyme in my blood that enables me to drink without getting hangovers (except on rare occasions – like this past Saturday night – hangover #2 in my entire life – when you mix Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, Coffee, Chardonnay, vodka martini, vodka tonics and “The Killer” from the Firehouse in Venice Beach (Vodka, Peach Liqueur, and Arnold Palmer – Iced Tea and Lemonade)).  The rare times you do get a hangover, it is a god-send. Otherwise, you would drink way too much, and all the time.

2. You have “blonde moments”. You do not have to be blonde to have these moments. This is true if you have ever phoned or texted someone and not recalled doing so (and not while tipsy), gone searching for your purse that was hanging on your arm all along (sunglasses sitting on your head, keys already in your hand – you get the picture), or forgotten where you parked, and were late to the next event because of it.

3. You are naughty AND nice. To you, all really IS fair in love and war.  You love breaking the rules, but not if it’s going to hurt someone else.

4. Your middle name is “Trouble”. You don’t just have a fondness for causing trouble.  It’s on your calling card.  And your reputation precedes you.  If there is fun to be had, and frivolity can possibly ensue, you are there to be sure the fun IS had by all, and frivolity commences immediately. You even have some friends who refuse to spend too much time with you, for fear this sort of “trouble” will rub off on them.

5. People feel good around you. You know how to make people feel special, and you derive much pleasure from doing so. You’ve been told that you make someone important feel good, calm, loved. This is key.

6. You have minions. Yes. If you have “people” who will make things happen for you, for others (on your behalf), for themselves (on your behalf — that’s the best one), then you have minions. Use them in good health.

7. You dress to impress. To impress yourself, your loves in life… whatever.  You care.

8. You’re sexy and you know it. You should have written the song, not LMFAO.  It should be your mantra. Party Rockin’ in the House Tonight!  Yes. You are comfortable in your own skin.  You feel sexy, therefore you are sexy. You know how to take care of yourself, and you do it.  But you also know how to cut loose and enjoy every moment.  Which leads me to the last item.

9. You Enjoy Every Moment. This means you will get the absolute most out of every single moment life has to offer.  And it’s not up for debate, like  “what about if someone dies?” Because… really?  If someone dies?  Everyone dies people. No one gets out of this thing alive. The trick is to enjoy every moment while you are still alive.  If there is a time to cry, by GOD you will cry your heart out and get the most out that too.  Enjoy.

Love you people! Mmmmmphhhuuuhhhhh!!!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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Post-Post-Posting On Heaven’s Wall

January 14, 2010 by MsCheevious

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Yesterday I was doing some work on my laptop at the kitchen counter in my mom’s house in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  As I sat typing away, she lay in her hospital bed, waiting for her body to finally let go of life, and allow her to rest.

Since my mom’s stroke, I’d been thinking a lot about my dad…  how I wished I could just talk to him.  I didn’t really have very much time with my dad.  He died when I was 23 — barely an adult, really.  So, I never felt like I really KNEW him… or that we really bonded.  And now, with mom on her death bed, I definitely realize how much I am going to miss her — something I was not so keenly aware of with my dad.  Sure I loved him and hated to see him go. Sure, I think of him, but they are just images mostly. I don’t have that almost tactile feeling of sadness when I think of my dad, or even the loving fondness that comes from having depth in a relationship. 

So as I sat there, worried about my mom, and how I would miss her deeply,  it was only natural for me to feel that I should somehow miss my dad to the same degree…  it was only fair.  And yesterday, as I sat there thinking about all of this, I just knew that talking to my dad again would solve that.  We would bond, talk about what he’s been up to since I was 23, and when our talk was over, I would truly miss my dad just as much as I knew I was going to miss my mom.  Sound strange?  It does to me!  HA!  But alas, I never promised SANITY in here people – entertainment, mixed with a little spice here and there, maybe, but sanity, never! CRAZINESS is more the order of the day here!

Then I signed onto Facebook.  I had many people to communicate with — all my wonderful well-wishers, and such. As I perused my home page, I was struck by something I found very odd.  People were jumping into their friend’s wall posts and status updates to communicate something completely unrelated.  One friend posted something about the pies she was baking, and someone commented on it, “Hey!  When are we going for that bike ride?” and so on.  It was remarkable to me the number of people who were just plain LAZY on Facebook.  Of all people, I realized how much time it could take to go to each person’s page and post on their wall, or to manually send them messages… especially if there were a good number of people to connect with, as in my case.  But I decided right then and there I was not going to “piggy back” on other people’s posts to get my thank you’s or comments over to my friends.  They’d been way too supportive during all this stress and sadness over my mom.  I just couldn’t handle sending a blanket thank you on my wall.  They deserved individual responses.  So I spent the next several hours doing just that.

Later on… away from my computer… as I was about to walk into my mom’s hospital room, my cell phone rang.  It was a blocked call, but since I was in Albuquerque I took the call. 

“Lisa J. Davis?” the sweet voice said.

“Yes?” I replied.

“This is Heaven calling, and I’ve got your dad on the line. He’d like to talk to you.”

“What?  Is this some kind of joke?” I said, as I started toward my mom’s door.

“No ma’am,” she said joyfully, “We’ve seen your wall posts on Facebook, and we think it’s a good thing that you did today.  We decided to answer your prayer about talking to your dad.  We think it’s something that will do some good, and we wanted to reward you for doing the right thing on Facebook.”

“Really?” I exclaimed, “That’s fantastic!” I walked into my mom’s room and said, “Mom!  I’ve got DAD on the line!  He wants to talk to us!”

And then I woke up.  Yup.  I even DREAM in Facebook.  Oh, but what a fantastic dream.

But there are a few lessons to the story, I suppose: 

1) Watch what you post on Facebook. If you play your cards right, you may get an answer to prayer! Ha ha!

2) Facebook has some MAJORLY AWESOME PROGRAMMERS working for them, dude!  They’ve got a direct connection to HEAVEN!

3) Your prayers can be answered over the phone, via AT&T!

4) I probably spend WAYYY too much time on Facebook, thus the DREAM about it!

Have a dreamy weekend my beautiful, NON-LAZY Facebooking friends!

Love you people! Mmmmmmphhhuuuuhhh!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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Filed Under: Entertainment, Meditation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Facebook, Status Updates, Wall post

Virtual Plans and the Flakes of LA

August 28, 2008 by MsCheevious

Sheila and I were talking about friendship.  We are pretty lucky for ours.  Especially in Los Angeles. People are flaky here.  Okay – not to diss the people in LA. People are flaky everywhere.  Real, true friendship is so rare and such a hot commodity, though, it’s something to talk about.

Our friend Glasgow (named as such for his Scottish heritage and accent) insists that all people in Los Angeles are flaky.  He’s so bloody negative about it. You can’t really blame him, when you hear his story though!  One New Year’s Eve after he’d just moved here, he had no plans.  He was chatting with some friends who told him of and invited him enthusiastically to a party.  They said they’d pick him up at a certain time and place, and planned to make a night of it.  Glasgow got himself ready, was at the appointed place, on time, only to be stood up.  It gets worse.  His “friends” never returned his calls.  Ever.  He NEVER heard from them again. What is THAT all about?  That’s just plain RUDE, isn’t it?

Do you think they died?  HA HA.  That IS the natural reaction among NORMAL, kind, caring and thinking people, isn’t it? 

Hey, I’ve been victim myself here in LA.  It dates all the way back to when I was only twenty years old. I was a single mom, living in Denver, when I decided to take a much needed vacation out to Los Angeles over the Fourth of July. I called up a childhood friend, Roseanne, who was my partner in crime growing up, when I came out to Southern California for the summers.  We were both (presumably) excited about my coming out for the weekend. Roseanne even invited me to stay at her place, offering to pick me up at the airport. 

On the flight over, being the amicable, friendly sort that I am, I made friends with a couple of guys on the plane.  They were super sweet, super cute and gave me their phone numbers.  They said to give them a call if my friends and I wanted to meet up in San Diego – their destination.

I arrived at LAX and waited FOUR hours, (having left repeated messages on an answering machine – hey – it was the early 80’s) before I finally had to call my brother who lived in Valencia county to come and pick me up.  He was kind and gracious and offered for me to hang with he and his wife and kids for the weekend, (just what a single mom who’s free for the weekend wants to do) but I would have none of it.  I called the two boys I’d met, and they drove all the way up to Valencia to pick me up.  We drove down to San Diego in a cool convertible and partied all weekend with a big group of fun people. 

That was one FLAKY situation that worked out to my BENEFIT! HA! Thanks Roseanne!  Boy was THAT fun! 

Oh – and there was another time flakiness worked in my favor.  Not too long ago, all but two people I’d invited to a dinner party flaked.  Because of that, I was able to go (with one of my guests) to the Santa Monica Pier, see Fallout Boy perform a surprise concert, and get into the Victoria’s Secret Pink Party.  If my friends hadn’t flaked I may have never met Fred the Wonder Chicken, seen Fallout Boy at such a cool venue, or gotten free drinks at a Victoria’s Secret party!  Now THAT was cool. 

Hey!  I have pretty good luck when people flake!

If you are new here, welcome!  I am so glad you chose to stop by!  We have fun in here, so watch out! 

What do you think it is though, that makes people flake?  Do you think they are just mushy and can’t be honest, or maybe they don’t know how to be honest, so they just lie about their plans in the first place, never intending to follow through?  Maybe.

Listen to me. I know this to be true: LA is FULL of good, solid, quality people.  It’s true!  I know each of them.  Ha ha!  I’m just kidding.  There are loads, and I am continually thoroughly pleased to meet them.

But I do have another theory. (Are you surprised?!)

Be afraid, people.  Be very afraid.  In the next few paragraphs, you may actually begin to think you have traveled or transported to some other blog.  Don’t let the intelligent writing and sharp analysis of human behavior fool you.  It is still me, Ms. Cheevious.  I have learned over the years not to ignore, but to go with my feelings. Today I’m feeling REALLY INTELLECTUAL.  Okay? 

So, I think flakiness is more about the world we live in.  We are spoiled.  We have so many ways to connect with people, we can’t keep up!  It’s really gotten pretty ridiculous over recent years, if you think about it! 

In the beginning things were simpler.  A man’s word was his word.  If he said he’d be somewhere, he was there.  That was back when people wouldn’t do business with you if you flaked.  It was also when they used smoke signals to send messages. 

After smoke signals, came the town crier, the stage coach, the US Postal Service, the telegraph and finally, the mother of all inventions in communications, the telephone.  Ah, that long lost original mainstay of modern communication.  Yes – these devices are still around and available today.  I swear!  I hear one ring from my kitchen wall every once in a while. 

Since then we’ve become much more sophisticated in communications with conveniences like FedEx, and – of course – the Internet. Why, the Internet has alleviated our need to ever even leave our homes!  People work from home, and surf the Internet ad nauseam. The networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster are just a tiny microcosm of the thousands of connection sites out there!  Imeen, Itunes and Napster (just to name a few) are there for sharing music, and Flicker, Kodak, PhotoBucket – or whatever –  I don’t even know all the names of sites for sharing photos. Then you have dating sites like Match.com, EHarmony.com, J-Date, Fitness Singles, you name it.  If you want to get connected, you can go to the Internet and get lost in a sea of virtual connections – which sometimes turn into like, real, actual, physical connections.

I won’t go on and on here, but there are all the other modes of communication consuming us as well, like cell phones, cell phone texts, email, instant messaging.  It’s just CRAZY!

Hey – I admit it.  When it comes to utilizing modern convenience to get my point across – I’m guilty as charged. I’ll even throw up a smoke signal if I think it’ll get some attention when I need it! As a matter of fact, I am known for my TEXTING capabilities. I’m an expert texter. I can send a text blind-folded, with one arm tied behind my back (ha ha).

But we are talking about flakiness, aren’t we?  Well, that’s just my point! 

I think all of this CONVENIENCE has made things, well, too convenient for people.  They flutter around with little or no accountability, little or no responsibility to anyone or anything, and shun any sort of solid commitment.  It’s almost like all that time on-line, virtually connecting and networking with people has caused them to get their wires crossed.  Somehow now, even their plans or commitments are virtual.  Their promise to meet your for a drink is just as VIRTUAL as the ELEPHANT they threw at someone on FACEBOOK (don’t ask).  Why not? It’s CONVENIENT.

That said, is it possible that the convenience of the Internet has created or at the very least enabled an entire generation of flakes?  Particularly in large cities like LA, where these networking websites and ways of making ourselves known on-line are the most successful?

Well. No. 

Now don’t get your panties in a bunch.  I know I took you around the block to get next door, but the truth is, flakiness among people goes way back – probably to the beginning of time.  I’m sure Cro-Magnum Man had his share of hot cave chicks flake on him when it came time to let him clunk them on the head with his club and drag them by the hair back to the cave.  Hey, whatever happened to that hair pulling, head clunking man, anyway?  That’s a MAN’S MAN if there ever was one, but I digress.  (hee hee, just kidding.  I like to be cherished, I really do. It’s just that well, I like to have fun too, but again, I digress).

I admit.  I don’t have the answers to the compelling question of the Flakes in LA, or anywhere else for that matter. But I don’t think about it too much, really.  Remember?  I have GREAT things happen when people flake!  Why do I care?  ha ha!

I’ll share with you one of my personal mottos – which I truly do believe:  “You never know what’s coming around the corner.”  Deep, huh?  Well it’s true.  People can flake, and open up a world of other possibilities!  So just get out their and enjoy every single stinkin’ moment, would you?

Love you people!  Mmmmmmphhhuuuhhhh!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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