Let’s face it
I’m finally on Facebook. Or better said, I’m on Facebook again.
As with Twitter, I used to have Facebook account and a bunch of other networks. Call me old fashioned, but I really didn’t know what to do with them. I didn’t need a study to know that 40 percent is ‘pointless babble’ in order to know that the news value of these networks is sometimes miles away – and as such this study isn’t any different in my eyes. I solved that in the past by only following I knew that had something else to contribute that cheap (self)promotion or other waffling. The problem was that I didn’t had much to contribute myself and thus I stopped everything, including the blog I told you earlier about.
But then there was this thing called geocaching and all the new and interesting people that came with it. I created a new Twitter account and the list of followers/people I follow grew. I’m still picky and don’t follow any people that have nothing to do with geocaching, my professional life or people I know. I ignore all the others, including the endless stream of unsolicited bots. The original problem remains though: do I have something to contribute myself? I solved this by getting back to the thing I did in the old days. I used to e-mail funny jokes to friends. Since I’m a dry-as-dust person, that limited to max 1 joke a week. I’m doing this again in a more modern way. Apart from geocaching related stuff, I share the interesting things I found on the net. That can be a nice photo set, a video clip, whatever. I’m again rather picky on things and one doesn’t get an overload.
There was still one problem though: apart from one person, there wasn’t anybody of BE geocaching community twittering. Facebook is apparently more popular in this community. It seems to be a rather Belgian phenomena: Twitter isn’t as popular as Facebook (and Netlog). Hence the fact that I’m on Facebook again. I think that I stick to the same principle as my Twitter account though. I still made up my mind what to do with these ‘application’ invites.
Concluding: if you want to, you can follow my via my Twitter or my Facebook account.
Having said this, I almost forgot that this blog is about geocaching and that I did some geocaching last Sunday. Since we didn’t visit the in-laws for a while, I had gathered a list of three geocaching I needed to finish. They are the representation of the level where a geocacher with > 330 finds can be.
- I don’t have that many problems with mystery caches as in the beginning. Call it luck, but I found the solution for Nippon GC1W104 some days after publication. I’m not going to spoil the fun for the rest, but I was looking at it the opposite way I used to do and that seemed to help. The holidays made a gap between the date of logging and finding the solution.
- Vergeten plaatsen 2 GC11NTN is a traditional where experience does help. I’ve seen already this modus operandi, although this one has an interesting variation on the theme.
- Rappeleer Dzj’oech nog ? GCW8BM is a nice example that one gets sloppy with all this experience. In fact, I knew the environment of the spoiler even before I started the multi. But since the crime scene was rather large, I completed the multi in order to get the correct coordinates. At least, I thought I have, since I needed to ask for help after 2 unsuccessful attempts to find it. Even with a clear hint, it took me more than 15 mins to log this one on my third attempt. My search range was to narrow, whils the cache was hidden a couple of meters away in a rather obvious way. Shame on me.
