The outbreak of social media. What a topic! You have undoubtedly come across people talking about this subject all the time. I bet some of you are fed up with the concept. Some of you maybe just hate it and don't want to know anything about it.

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Digg, Flickr, Delicious...There are so many social media sites nowadays that trying to name all of them in one article would be impossible. Nevertheless, it is important to know that there are thousands and millions of consumers or potential customers in these sites and this number is growing every day.

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Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts and hold on real tight because we are heading straight into a collision course. The word has spreaded out and there's no turning back. Each day, the digital buzz grows at a faster pace and becomes more influential than ever before. But that's not where it stops.

The old folk wisdom that says place a brick in your toilet's water tank is partially correct: It's an effortless way to save water, but a brick isn't the best choice of object. Use a plastic bottle filled with water instead. A bottle in the tank will displace enough water to save half a gallon to a gallon each use, or up to about 10 gallons a day in a typical home.

All you have to do is drop a little sand or some pebbles into a bottle, fill it with water, and put it in the tank, making sure not to disturb the toilet's working parts.

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