Twitter vs. Facebook

 I have decided to make a list of pros and cons for both Twitter and Facebook to help me pick the superior social media tread. I have to say, i am a little bias because before ALES 204, Twitter did not exist in my internet world.  

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002982068314

Pros

-befriend long lost friends 

-live news feed 

-fun games

-liked button

-event calendar 

-birthday reminders (A MUST!)

-facebook chat 

-photo uploads and viewing other peoples photos
-career related profiles 

Cons

                                                      -consumes your life
                                                      -makes you addicted to checking it at least twice a day 

                                                      -keeps you up at night chatting 

                                                      -time consuming 

                                                      -makes you procrastinate 

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/

Pros

-short status and not paragraphs to read

-numerous links to other websites 

-no limiting to posting 

-global audience 

-celebrities use it 

-get to follow people that you have never met in real life

-find tweets on every topic in the history of mankind
-better for mobile use that Facebook

                                                      Cons

                                                      -word limit (some of us have lots to say)
                                                      -only limited to reading status (profile picture does not cut it sometimes)
                                                      -reading pointless statuses

                                                      -too many notifications if you follow many people or if its just one enthusiastic twitterer

                                                      -causes people to tweet instead of reporting danger 

So what to choose: Facebook my long time friend or twitter my newly made friend? I choose... BOTH =D Because it never hurt any one to have more than one friend, or social media options in this case. I also get to have the best of both worlds and I'm not going to argue with that.  Check out Dana's blog where she talks about other social network websites. 

Wiki: Food Rotation System

Have you heard of food rotation systems? Well if your like me, it wasn't until i came across it at a fairly new job that i understood why we needed it. This is also the reason why i chose to write and edit this topic on wikipedia. Not only did i want to share my knowledge, but gain a little more about this system that some businesses have incorporated. 

From work, they used the rotation system mostly on ketchup,steak sauce and salad dressings that are taken from the original bottles and used to fill the restaurant's own branded bottles. With this, the business cut costs by buying bulk bottles instead of individual ones and also reducing the cost spent on ramekins (for those who don't know, these are the mini glass bowls) that were perviously filled with the condiments. How the system works is that if the bottles were half empty, we would marry them together and with the completely empty bottle it would be wash and filled with fresh product. Then, in the refrigerator where they are stored, the fresh product gets pushed to the back of the refrigerator, while the older product are kept at the front. This rotation keeps the condiments fresh and the quality standard high. 

While editing my Wiki stub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_rotation_system), i learned many new things about food rotation that i didn't know before. One of them being that according to FDA regulations foods must have labels that include dates of when it was packaged and when it must be used by. Reason being is because of shelf life. The labels reinforce expiration dates that need to be adhered to. Another point i found interesting was that the rotation system goes hand in hand with the aspect of food safety. When it comes to handling food, safety is a big issue because it is detrimental to a business if they do not provide a safe product with minimal bacterial food borne pathogens to the public. They risk being shut down by the government and tarnishing their name/reputation.

So to summarize:

1. Consider food rotation system if and when enter food industry

2. Use labels to help differentiate old products from fresh ones and ROTATE!

3. Avoid factors that will bring a bad name to your business i.e food borne illnesses! 

Don't forget to check out ashley's blog and her wiki stub!