{"id":4294,"date":"2014-02-06T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2021-08-26T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:29:04","slug":"in-the-for-shits-giggles-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/06\/in-the-for-shits-giggles-column\/","title":{"rendered":"In the for &#8220;Shits &#038; Giggles&#8221;  column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/NewImage6.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I installed BBM on my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>It works nicely, unfortunately I couldn&rsquo;t recover my old original BBM account and had to create a new one. I had a blackberry for a while and it was a very nice phone. The problem was that it was on AT&amp;T and where I worked, the phone had zero AT&amp;T coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a new account wasn&rsquo;t a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>WHY? Did I do this, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I noticed a tech news story that said BBM now could search for other people who were using it.<\/p>\n<p>After installation I told BBM to scan for people in my contacts list.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? Zip, NADA, Not one of my friends is still using BBM.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ll leave it installed, who knows, perhaps some of my buds will turn up.<\/p>\n<p>The app is pretty nice although I can&rsquo;t comment on the chat function.<\/p>\n<p>You have to have someone to chat with after all.<\/p>\n<p>I still think that iMessage is awesome on the iPhone and since I have unlimited texting with my phone plan, BBM may be an application that just takes up some room but never gets used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I installed BBM on my iPhone. It works nicely, unfortunately I couldn&rsquo;t recover my old original BBM account and had to create a new one. I had a blackberry for a while and it was a very nice phone. The problem was that it was on AT&amp;T and where I worked, the phone had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/02\/06\/in-the-for-shits-giggles-column\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the for &#8220;Shits &#038; Giggles&#8221;  column&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}