If I ever require crutches for a broken foot again, I am going to ask for something else instead. I’m not saying I want a wheel chair or a walker, far from it. Nope, I don’t want crutches, walker, cane, or wheel chair.

I want a knee walker. These little gadgets are so cool! If you can bend your knee and put weight on it, such as when you have a bad ankle sprain or broken/surgically altered foot, you can just put your knee on the pad and scoot along like you were tooling around with a scooter! I love the concept.

I first saw these in Colorado – my friend inquired about having one of them instead of crutches, but she was non-weight bearing for a day or two so that wasn’t going to work. But I’m telling you – if I ever have surgery on one of my feet again, or I break a foot again, or sprain an ankle badly enough to need crutches, I am asking for one of these instead!

I’m being totally serious here. Does anyone use MySpace anymore? Everyone I see is either using Facebook, Google+, or Twitter. I still have a MySpace account, but I never use it anymore.

This is mostly due to MySpace just not being particularly conducive to business. Sure, it’s a great way to get exposure for a band, but as a platform for social media for a business, it really isn’t a good tool to use. For business use I much prefer Facebook and Twitter. I have a Google+ for Candlelight Boutique, but rarely use it because I prefer Facebook to Google+ – yes I am weird.

I just prefer the busier atmosphere of Facebook – and the fact that more people use Facebook than Google+ – for a business page. After all, if there are more users, there are more potential “fans” of the business page and more reach for me to show off my products and hopefully make some sales.

But back to my original question – does anyone actually USE MySpace anymore?

LaShawn and I are big fans of movies. The only problem is that we don’t have the money to go to the actual theaters. I mean, seriously, the theaters cost way too much. So we always have to wait for the movies to come out on dvd and then rent them.

Granted, there are a few places in town that sell discount dvds that are relatively cheap and occasionally have some great deals¹, so it isn’t that I can’t find good deals on dvds to buy, it’s just that I hate having to find them.

Of course, lately, I’ve been looking for deals on just about everything from groceries to paper products to ink for my printer, so I suppose searching for deals on dvd purchases or rentals shouldn’t be too difficult either.

Lately I have been seeing a disturbing trend among small businesses, usually businesses run by Etsy shop owners, that has been bothering me a lot. Instead of having a Facebook page for their business, they have created a Facebook profile. This wouldn’t bother me except for two things.

First, it is highly irritating to be looking through a list of friends on a game and see “Sticks and Tricks Billiards Supply” where a person’s name should be. I mean, really, I don’t want to be friends with a business, and you can’t be friends with a business. You can like a business, you can patronize a business, but you can’t be friends with a business.

Second, and more importantly, these people are violating Facebook’s TOS. Just as it is against Facebook’s TOS for a person to have more than one profile¹, it is also against Facebook’s TOS to have a Facebook profile for your business. Facebook’s profiles are meant for people not businesses or organizations.

So why do people still create profiles instead of pages? One reason I have seen listed in Etsy’s forums is that people are intimidated by pages. Really, now that pages and profiles are both on the Timeline format, pages aren’t as difficult to maintain – it’s just like posting to your profile with a status update. Plus, you have the option to actually use Facebook as your page if you want to. Granted, I’ve done this before and you have to set yourself to using Facebook as a page each time you log in, but you can use Facebook as your page instead of your profile if you wish. The only thing I have noted that is of interest when using Facebook as your page is that you cannot play games as your page and you cannot chat as your page – I don’t even have my friend’s list showing when I am using Facebook as Gothic Peach.

So if you have a Facebook profile for your business and one for yourself, use the account you have for yourself to create a page for your business, let your friends on your business profile know where to “like” your business, and let them know that the profile for the business will be deactivated in a week or so. Another alternative is to follow Kim’s advice and merge your business profile into a business page so that you will not have to worry about getting into trouble with Facebook when they figure out that you have two accounts and that one is not for a person but for a business.