Follow Friday: Cheri Lucas, Sinosoul, Read Write Web

This week I’ve got a mixture of fun, weird and necessary reads for you, plus the Tweeters behind them.  Check it out:

#Travel – Cheri Lucas: @cherilucas

Writing through the Fog
I’m not giving you a specific article to read.  Cheri’s got a lot going on, so it’s hard to just pick one.  She’s a travel writer, book reviewer, media reporter and a community manager of Trazzler, one of my favorite travel websites.  So my advice is to close your eyes, click randomly and see what you find.  Or better yet, wander over to Trazzler and lose yourself in Cheri’s many, many trips.  Where hasn’t this girl been?

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#Food – Tony Chen: @sinosoul

“Brain to Penis: Raso Minang & People’s Choice Jamaican”
This is the first Follow Friday in which I’m featuring someone I actually know personally.  Tony gets special mention in this one because he recently tweeted, “yes, I ate a dick, hope all the detractors are happy now” (though it appears to have been edited to “Eat a dick, literally”).  Click on the link and you are led to a post entitled “Brain to Penis.”  If you thought there was shock value in announcing that you ate a dick, well imagine looking directly at the dick that Tony actually ate.  OK, we’ll switch to calling it the politely correct “Jamaican cow cod” now.  Mad props to Tony, since cow cod looks like, well… a penis.  At least with Rocky Mountain Oysters, you could get away with calling it Beef McNuggets or something.  Not so much with this limp phallus…

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#Media – Read, Write, Web: @rww

The 3 Facebook Privacy Settings Every User Should Check Now
For those of you who are already social media savvy, this article is probably useless to you.  But if you are one of the many millions of casual Facebook users, I highly recommend checking it out.  It outlines three main privacy settings that were recently reset by Facebook: your posts/status updates/photos, your privacy information, and your search settings.  The new default setting by Facebook is that everyone (literally!) can see your information.  It’s a pain in the butt to learn how to set your privacy settings so that last weekend’s party pics are available to your close buds but not random creepies, but it’s worth the effort.

Best rule of thumb: don’t put anything on Facebook that you wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing with a stranger.