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Another chance to win!

Last month, I gave away two Pairs of eyeglasses. If you weren’t one of the lucky two winners, you can still enter this contest. So it is time to give away something else for this month. I’ve decided to give out two 10 dollars gift cards. This will be an easy to enter and you will also help me in the same process. Like last time, I will be using Random.org to find those two lucky people. So here are the rules!

Rules for entry!

First way to earn 10$ is a simple one. Just sign up for my Mailing List, nothing else is required. If your already signed up, your automatically entered into the running of the first 10$ gift card. Just sit back and wait!

The Second way, Is to tweet:

How to Win a 10$ gift card go to: http://bit.ly/iXi2iA #paulstechtalk #giftcard #free

You may only tweet this once per day, I will be watching the tweets if you start to spam people on twitter, I will know. So don’t do it to many times, or your will be disqualified for the 10$ gift card. The more you tweet the better your chances are at getting the prize, so tweet 30 times and you could be the winner, that is tweet from 06/14/2011 12:01am EST to 07/13/2011 11:59pm EST and I will be watching. Good luck to all the people who enter and We will see who winds next Month!

If you like me to give out even more from Amazon, please bookmark the Amazon link and use that anytime you shop at Amazon and that way I will be able to give away even more cards down the road. For your convience, you can use this bit.ly url to buy from Amazon:

http://amzn.to/jCdF1y or http://www.amazon.com/?tag=paulstechtalk-20

Anytime you use that link, I will make a small amount off the sale of anything you buy that day. So the more you use it the more I will make and in turn be able to give away even more stuff from Amazon!

Good Luck to All That enter

Paul Sylvester

As you can tell we are seeing how more and more people aren’t using Facebook. I am one of them, I haven’t used Facebook for over 3 weeks. Why might you ask? I have several reasons and i would like to talk about them.

Security Issues

Yes, that is definitely one of them. I have seen how they have dealt with it and I am not that comfortable with them. So I haven’t felt compelled to be on Facebook because of this. I am not the only who has quit Facebook, check out my Poll. Here is the current Standings in my Poll:

Are you Going to quit Facebook?

24% Voted Yes

45% Voted No

14% Voted Maybe

17% Voted (Boycott June 6, 2010)

As you can see it means half the votes are staying and other half are leaving or possibly leaving. Which doesn’t do well with me being that people are leaving it.

The Games on Facebook

I was mainly using Facebook as a way to play games on it. For One of my Favorite games on it is Zynga games. Although I am unhappy how Facebooks gets to keep that game on there, I do know why though. This was a last attempt effort to keep on Facebook. I am sure of it. So since I won’t be on Facebook, I have no need to play games. I am hoping Zynga creates there own way to play the game without being on Facebook, if they do that I might return.

Facebook has becoming uninteresting

This is the final reason why I haven’t been on Facebook for over 3 weeks, I am uninterested with Facebook and have no desires to go back. I haven’t however deleted my account but merely haven’t been on Facebook. I see no reason to even go there to delete or put suspend my account. That would merely make it harder to go leave it, because I would want to read messages and other such things. I have decided just to keep away from it for the time being. If Facebook does make a come back, then Maybe but for right now. I have better things to take up my time.

Have a Good Friday, See you Monday

I get my glasses from GlassesUSA. They have a Satisfaction Guarantee and evenPrescription Sunglasess for when your out doors. Give them a try, and I know you’ll like them!