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I was in the accounting line for decades but did poorly because of https://bbs.market/MEMORE/posts/dUw7bXuAZfNcr01XoBUO Recently I changed my career to become a ✍️writer so that I can work slowly without irritating bosses

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🍌 Bananas 🍌

If you stay in a place where there is a lot of sunlight, it is easy to grow bananas. In tropical countries bananas are non seasonal and fruit throughout the year.  In places where winter has little sunlight, bananas which fail to mature before winter will be  remain dormant and continue to mature only when the season change. So may take more than a year for a plant to produce ripe bananas 🍌  There are many varieties of bananas. In countries that import bananas, the most common variety sold in stores is Cavendish. Cavendish is widely  grown as it is disease resistant. Coming from an equatorial country that has many varieties of bananas, I can tell you that there are many varieties that taste better than Cavendish. Store bought bananas do not taste as nice as home grown bananas. The bananas that you buy are harvested when they are still unripe. The bananas you eat may have been harvested as much as 4 weeks ago. If you plant your own bananas, you can even let them ripen on the tree. I like to harvest my bananas when they are just starting to turn yellow. Such bananas are ready to eat after keeping for about 3 days.  Allowing the fruit to remain on the plant for that extra 2 or 3 weeks gives the plant time to put so much food into the fruit and so they are much more delicious. Unripe bananas contain mainly starch. As the banana ripens, the starch turns into sugar. Certain varieties of bananas can be used for cooking when they are still unripe or just starting to ripen. Bananas are a healthy source of fiber, potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and various antioxidants including dopamine and catching. Bananas also contain phytonutrients. Bananas have a relatively low glycemic index (GI) although it has starch and sugar. The starch it has is resistant starch and the fiber it has helps to keep its GI low. The GI is a measure of how quickly carbs in food enter your bloodstream and raise blood sugar  Click on the link above for more details  on the health benefits  of  .  3y

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🦋 Why add salt to pineapples? 🍍

There are 2 reasons for adding salt to pineapple or to soak pieces of pineapple in salt water. 1) To make it taste sweeter 2) To reduce the tingly sensation of our tongue or mouth after eating 🍍 Salt does not make pineapple sweeter but it makes pineapple taste sweeter.  Huh! What's the difference between being sweet and tasting sweet? What we taste is how our brains process the interplay of various tastes. There are 5 different tastes: The 4 basic flavours of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and complex flavour umami or tastiness (sometimes  referred to as savoury). A food or drink may contain more than 1 flavour and our brain has to process all the flavours to tell us what the taste is. Take lime juice. It is sour. Adding sugar adds sweetness. The more sugar we add, the more sweet it taste and less sour it taste. The sourness of the lime juice is not destroyed. It is still there. It just gets more and more hidden by sweetness. Eventually our brain tells us the lime juice is not sour but sweet. A similar process goes on between bitter and sweet. Black coffee is bitter. As we slowly add sugar it taste less bitter. All the substance  that gives coffee a bitter taste is still there but we notice the bitter taste less and less. Now coming back to 🍍🍍. It is an acidic fruit with a PH of between 3 to 4 (PH of 7 is neutral and PH >7 is alkaline) Adding salt does not destroy the acidity of pineapples. The acidity of pineapples comes not only from citric acid but also from malic acid. Citric acid is sour. Malic acid is also bitter. Salt hides the sourness and bitterness of both citric acid and malic acid. So we taste these 2 flavours less and notice the sweetness of the pineapple more. In this way, salt did not make 🍍 more sweet but just make it taste more sweet. mmk, do you like bitter taste? Do you prefer your coffee dark without sugar or milk? Perhaps one of the causes of your dislike of 🍍 is the taste of malic acid. Now let's look at how delicious food taste and how umami it is. When cooking we should not just use the exact amount of vinegar or salt to get the degree of sourness or saltiness we want. It will not taste delicious. What we should do is to use more vinegar or salt than is required and then hide the excess flavour by adding a bit of sugar. The final product that has all 3 elements of sweet, sour, and salty hiding one another to produce a complex umami will taste very delicious. Umami has different kind of sweetness than that of sugar. It is like adding Monosodium  Glutamate (MSG) to food. It enhances the flavour of food. The sweetness of MSG is umami and not the sweetness  of sugar. Instead of adding MSG, we can add umami to food by adding different  types of food and also by prolonged cooking to extract flavour. For example  if we add meat or bones to a soup/stew and simmer it for many hours, the soup or stew will be full of umami I find adding 🍍 to food adds umami or zest. What do you think. Do you agree that we should use more salt or vinegar than necessary and then balance the flavour out by adding sugar? The food may be less healthy, but it will be more delicious.  If you have not been doing so, I suggest  that you try it and see for yourself whether it will take your cooking to another level.  Do you think that there are only 4 different  tastes  and umami is not a taste? I have not covered using salt to  reduce the tingly sensation caused by eating 🍍. Do you agree that this works? 🦋3y

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🦋 What pineapple is the most delicious?

In one of mmk's comments to my post about Laksa, he mentioned that he does not like 🍍🍍. Just to bug mmk, I am making a post about 🍍🍍. Actually, I am not so naughty but I am making this post because I like 🍍🍍. Perhaps mmk doesn't like pineapples is because the varieties available in Slovakia are not the better ones. There are many varieties of pineapples available  in my country, Malaysia. The main pineapple varieties grown in Malaysia are: 'Moris', 'N36', 'Sarawak', 'Gandul', 'Yankee', 'Josapine', 'Maspine', and most recently 'MD2'. Some of these varieties such as N36 and Josapine were locally developed for the local fresh fruit market. MD2 is a super sweet pineapple. They have different textures, juiciest, aromas, and different degrees of sweetness. Some varieties are not sweet but are sour. Some varieties are hard and fibrous. I like those that that are soft, juicy, sweet and fragrant at the same time. Mmm...so yummy. Pineapples grow best in places where there is plenty of sunlight. Malaysia  has weather that is suitable for the cultivation of 🍍🍍 and is an exporter of pineapples including canned pineapple and pineapple jam. My mother used to make homemade pineapple jam. We eat the jam with bread and also for making tarts. In order to make the pineapple jam, we first grate pineapples. The grated pineapples are squeezed and the juice is boiled together cloves until it is very concentrated. Sugar is the added and the pineapple added. The mixture is boiled futher until it turns a golden brown colour. Once the sugar and pulp has been added, the mixture has to be stirred continuously to prevent it from sticking to the pot and being burned. So boiling just the pineapple juice until it is very concentrated saves a lot of work. Using the concentrated juice gives the jam a rich flavour and nice aroma. Just the cooking process of boiling the juice and cooking the mixture  while stirring takes several hours. It is possible to buy ready made pineapple jam. The bought jam does not taste as good as the homemade  jam that is the product of the labour of love that was put into making it. Another homemade dish that I remember fondly is salt fish head and pineapple curry. Those who do not like preserved salted fish will say that it stinks. Those who love it like the aroma. Fish head is used instead of the flesh of the body of the fish because the texture of body flesh is not smooth. The curry also contains santan (coconut milk made by squeezing grated old coconuts) Santan adds aroma to the curry. The curry should be made at least 1 day before it is eaten. This is to give time for the pineapple slices to absorb the flavour of the curry including that of the salted fish, spices, and santan. Mmm ... What variety of pineapple do you like? Do you grow your own pineapples? I have a few pineapple  plants of different varieties including MD2. The type of soil affects the taste of the 🍍🍍. MD2 grow best in mineral soil. Those grown in peat soil are not as sweet as those grown in mineral soil.🦋3y

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🦋 Sweet Potato Donut and Laksa.

The video below is not taken by me but by IChang and her husband, Jimmy. They are Vloggers who have a YouTube channel called IChang. They have travelled to many countries and their focus is on the food of the places they visit. They have spent many months in Malaysia and know a lot about the different types of food of the many races in Malaysia. In the video below, they went to Malacca for the 2 delicacies. The donuts were made from mashed sweet potatoes that have been boiled. Care must be taken not to overboil the sweet potatoes as that would cause a loss of flavour. IChang and Jimmy were given a sweet potato that was perfectly boiled to let them taste how delicious it was. The mashed sweet potatoes were made into donuts. A lot of vendors just make balls instead of donuts which take more effort to shape. Donuts have a larger surface area. This makes the final product more delicious because the outer surface is crispy and is coated with fragrant gula melaka. Gula means sugar and melaka is Malacca in BM (national language of Malaysia). However "gula melaka" is not sugar from Malacca. It is made all over Malaysia and is brown coloured palm sugar. Unlike normal sugar that is just sweer, gula melaka has a fragrance. Most of the vendors who sell fried sweet potatoes balls do not coat the balls with gula melaka. IChang and Jimmy were given a fried donut without the coating so that they can see the difference  the coating makes. Now let us talk about the Laksa.  The noodles in it are made of rice flour. Shredded cucumber, onions, and pineapple are added. Finely shredded Bunga Kantan (Kantan flower  which is reddish pink in colour) is also added for fragrance. The soup of the laksa is made by boiling fish with lemon grass and assam java. Assam java is sour and is available as a thick paste together with seeds or as seedless dried slices. Either form may be used. The paste form will result in a thicker soup. Pounded shallots may also be used in the soup. The laksa comes with lime that the customer  can squeeze if he wants to have the soup more sour. If you can take the sour taste you should add the lime juice as it adds flavour to the soup. The cost of 5 (excluding those eaten while watching the the preparation of the donuts) sweet potato donuts, 2 cups of tea (kurang  manis means put less sugar so that it is not so sweet) and 2 bowls of laksa is RM19 which is about USD4.30. When IChang wanted to pay RM20, a "battle" ensued as the lady boss  of the shop insisted on returning the RM1 as change. Do you think that this is funny? Other customers said that IChang lost the battle. 😃 Should the owner have accepted the tip?  The boiled sweet potato and the donut without gula melaka should be worth more than RM1.  Do you think that the price of RM19 is cheap. Do you want to try to make the fried mashed potatoes? Will you just make balls or will you shape the mashed sweet potatoes into donuts? If you cannot get hold of gula melaka, you can try making caramel with ordinary sugar. Although it will taste different from gula melaka it will still give your donuts a shiny appearance. Do you think the looks of food (such as a shiny coat in this case) is important? Ha ha. I think I have made you want to eat the above. 🦋3y

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Dogs are our best friends

With BBS do you still use emails? Have you heard of peemail? Dogs love them. If you are going to be away from your dog for some time, they will love to still have you around even when you are not there. Is there any difference in your dog's behaviour when you are happy, sad or angry? The video below has many interesting facts about dogs. I would 🧡 to hear your  🐶🐕 stories.4y

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🦋 Is photography an art or a science?

There are no photos in this post but hopefully we can have a lot of engagement on the above question. Advancement of technology has made it easier to take photos. Modern cameras including those in handphones has sensors and chips that process information from the sensors and can automatically select suitable settings. However a good photographer can choose not to use automatic mode and use his own settings. By choosing different apperture size and shutter speed a lot of special effects can be achieved. For example using a larger apperture size and compensating by increasing shutter speed will reduce the depth of field. The larger the apperture the shallower the depth of field. Deciding on the depth of field or what is sharp and what is blur in a photo is an art. On the other hand what combination of apperture and shutter speed so that the photo is not overexposed or underexposed is a science. Modern cameras with their processors has reduced the science element. For  example by choosing Apperture priority mode the photographer chooses the apperture that will give the depth of field he wants and the camera will automatically decide on the shutter speed that will produce a perfectly exposed photo. It can be argued that knowing what apperture size to choose is a science. However TTL or through the lens monitoring where the what will come out in the photo can be seen (preview of the photo) on the inbuilt screen of the camera allow the photographer to adjust settings untill he is satisfied. So the final photo is a mixture of the art of the photographer and the science of the camera. Sometimes an artistic photographer may want to have an underexposed or overexposed picture for special effects. By using a very high shutter speed such as 1/2000 it is possible to freeze a fast moving object such a racing motorbike. However such a photo does not give a sense of speed. A much better picture can be produced by choosing a slower shutter speed and panning or moving the camera to follow the motion of the motorbike. The motorbike will be sharp while the background will be blur and so convey the sense of speed Most ardent photographers will have more than one lens for his camera. The lenses can be of different focal lengths or he can compromise by having a zoom lens where he can zoom between different focal lengths. He can also have special lenses such as a macro lens for close up photography eg of flowers. Adding filters such as a UV filter can also change how a photo will look. Is the choice of what to do, apperture size, shutter speed, lens to use including what focal length science or art? Please comment and give your opinions. Perhaps technology is increasingly taking care of the scientific aspect. The artistic aspect of photography will remain crucial. How to compose a picture, what angle to take it from, direction and amount of lighting  etc. Factors like these will make the difference between an ordinary photo and one that is the work of a master. Just like the difference between the paintings of artists like Leonardo Da Vinci, Picasso, Rembrandt and those  who paint for fun as a hobby  🦋am not a photographer and do not own any cameras other than the basic camera on an entry level hand phone. That camera has very low specs. 🦋 do not have practical experience taking photos. However as a bookworm who like to read, some of the things 🦋 have read are articles on photography. The comments 🦋 make is based on theoretical knowledge and what I like to see and consider beautiful. Please excuse 🦋 if some of the comments made are wrong4y

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Bittergourd omelette

The onion oil mentioned in the video is made by frying onions slices in oil until the onion is brown and slightly crispy. You can prepare this in bulk and store untill you need to use it. It keeps well in the refrigerator if you prepare a lot of it. Using onion oil instead of plain oil adds fragrance to food. For those who try Asian cooking at home, this may be reason why what you cook lack a little oomph compared with what you eat in restaurants. Restaurants will prepare onion oil in bulk and use a little of it in their cooking. The fried onion that was sprinkled is from the preparation of onion oil. It serves as a garnishing as well as adds a slightly sweet and fragrant taste. If you like the bitter gourd soft instead of crunchy, you can stir fry it before adding the other ingredients. In order to save time, what restaurants do is blanche the bittergourd instead of  washing it with salt and squeezing to reduce bitterness. The length of time it is kept in the boiling water depends on how soft/crunchy you want the bittergourd to be.4y

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My pet is smarter than me

Some smart pet owners teach their pets to perform amusing tricks. My golden retriever is smarter than me and tricks me. Instead of me getting him to do things, he gets me to do what he wants. When I was washing clothes he got someone to wash instead  and brought a bottle of water to me while I rested He once saved my life when I was electrocuted by pulling out the plug to cut off the electricityNot only is his fur golden but he has a 🧡 of gold. When I was weak from hunger, he gave his food to me.4y

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Asian Parents Of You The Future -By JinnyBoy TV

Asian Parents have high ambitions for their children. They prefer their children to become doctors, lawyers, architects, etc that can earn a stable income. Professions that depends on creativity or performing abilities in art, music etc are frowned on. Parents who have spent a lot to send their children for piano classes may reluctantly agree to a child becoming a piano teacher. Perhaps one day this will change as in Which type of parent are you? Or Which type of parent do you have?4y

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🦋 Are the 2 Special Girls Untouchables?

There are 2 girls who are special to 🦋 and has impacted 🦋. 🦋 has made posts in BBSMATE about the 2 girls. The posts are: 1 )  The person that 🦋 ❤️ the most2 )  Miss Perfect 🦋 is a writer like the man in the video "Untouchable" below. 🦋 is not an untouchable like the man in the video. But there is the possibility that 🦋 is making the 2 special girls, 👩‍⚕️K and  👩‍🔬C to be untouchables. What do you think? Is 🦋 idealising them so much and putting them on such a high pedestal that they become untouchable?4y

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A Mother's day post

Mother's Day is on the 2nd Sunday of May so this post is 1 week late  Imagine that you are the proud mother of the student who was chosen to give the graduation speech on behalf of all the graduands of her university. Your daughter started her speech by saying "I never want to be like my mother" When you heard that opening line what was on your mind? Were you disappointed that all your sacrifices for her were not appreciated? In the video below produced by JinnyBoy TV from Malaysia, the mother had tears when her daughter's speech ended. Were they tears of sadness and disappointment? Watch the video to find out.4y

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The person 🦋 love the most

We should not judge a book by it's cover. When it comes to girls, I tend to judge them by their cover or rather their faces before I get to know them. Due to all the rejection that I have experienced from childhood, I do not expect any girl to want me as a partner. In order to avoid the pain of being rejected by a girl, I would rather not try to ask for their friendship but just admire them from a distance. I like girls with sweet faces and have sweet smiles. I take this as an indication of their personality that they are friendly and will not pour scorn on me should I approach them. Judging them intuitively by their faces and smiles without getting to actually know them is like judging a book by its cover. It is not fair to them. But then it makes no difference. I just think that I will like them and dream of a relationship with them without taking any action to start a relationship. The insecurity I feel is too much for me to risk being rejected. They are not 👫👬 I ❤️ but are just 👫👬 I think I can ❤️ The girls with sweet faces and smiles were like the pretty rainbows 🌈mentioned in the song "Give them all". Like the pretty 🌈in the song, they will not be there even if I try to chase them. Like the song says, I am spinning round and round in hopeless dreams of romance ❤️. Dreams will never come to pass if I do not even dare to try be be friends. So I wrapped up those dreams and gave them all to Jesus and expected to remain single all my life. Then Jesus brought a girl into my life but I treated her as a sister rather than as a girl I ❤️. A girl working in a company that I was auditing wanted to go to church. She started going to the church that I attended. After church we would go have lunch and talk about things related to God. She became a Christian and so became my sister in Christ. Talking with her about God and answering her questions was not difficult. I was comfortable talking with  her and the things we talked about diversified. I became so comfortable talking with her that I started confiding in her and telling her about myself, my hopes and dreams. This went on for years and I treated her as a sister I like and who is nice to be with. I do not know how she felt about me. I just know that I enjoy her friendship and that she was the only girl I treated as a real friend and not just an acquaintance. They say ❤️ is blind. I was "blind" and did not see that I ❤️ her as someone that I would ❤️ to marry. God is good. He removed my blindness and made me realise that there is a girl that I ❤️ and not just think that I can ❤️. The miracle is that she ❤️ me too! So 👩‍⚕️K and me married. 👩‍⚕️ K is THE PERSON that I ❤️ the most.4y

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🦋 A touching ❤️ story

Those who know 🦋 knows that 🦋 like to tell ❤️ stories. This ❤️ story is not like the usual ❤️ story about 2 persons who had a happy ending after going through much pain. Animal lovers will especially like this ❤️ story It is taken from YouTube and the video is produced by Wonder Bot4y

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🦋 My Girlfriend 🦋

Do you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend ❓ Is she or he someone you like or ❤️ very much and hope to marry ❓ Would you be sad and 💔 if she or he decides to leave you and go away ❓ Did you end up marrying such a person ❓ Here is a post about the girlfriend of 🦋 This post started with many questions. ❓❓❓ Please comment below to answer questions that are relevant to you. Comments on 🦋's experience with girlfriend would also be appreciated. Have you ever been in such a situation before ❓4y

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My VI or Visual Identity of 🦋

Hello friends in Friends Book. I joined this community a few days ago and started a channel  here that called "🦋 and MEMORE" All the posts that I have made here were placed in that channel. All the posts so far mentions 🦋. So by now, you probably realise that I am 🦋. 🦋 is my Visual Identity in BBS. 🦋 Is my profile picture or avatar. It makes me easily recognisable by 👫👬.4y

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🦋 why the song "If' is relevant to writing

🦋 is a writer. A tip that is often given writers is : Don't tell; ShowIf the words of a writer tells a story, the reader "hears" the story. If the writer can use words to paint pictures in the mind of readers, the writer can show the readers what is going on in the story. If the pictures painted are in the form of a senseround movie (do you remember certain movies that have to be watched in cinemas with speakers that are so loud at certain parts of the movie that you can feel vibrations) the reader can hear, see and feel sounds, colours, images and feel the emotions of the characters of the story. The picture painted by the writer is worth more than a thousand words that merely tell a story.4y

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🦋 Miss Perfect

Do you have a Miss Perfect or a Mr Perfect?  What are the qualities  you set for someone to be your Perfect? Does your spouse or partner have the qualities you set for your Perfect? How would you feel if your Perfect put your name as "TURN OFF" on his/her handphone? Please comment on the 4 questions above. 🦋 hope that you will enjoy the stories about the 2 Miss Perfect of 🐛 and the YouTube video below about the Miss Perfect who was called Turn Off4y

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🦋 The ideal job or career

Do you like your present job? Do you like the career you are in?  If yes, congratulations. If no, do you dare to change career? For decades 🐛 was stuck in a career that was not suitable for 🐛. About 11 years a train that would have taken 🐛 came. Unfortunately 🐛 missed the train like in the song "500 miles" by Peter, Paul, and MarySo🐛 remained stuck in the wrong career. Then the BBS train came. The BBS train carried 🐛 to a new career that was suitable for 🐛 The 🐛 flourished in his new job and so became a 🦋 who writesWhat do 🦋 write on? 🦋 can write on diverse topics such as Global Economics, Cryptocurrencies, Precious Metals, Human Relationships, Psychology, ❤️ stories, funny stories, Christianity etcSubject matter is not a problem. Looking at 👬👫, songs, scripture, the 🌍 etc can give 🦋 ideas to write on. The problem for 🦋is that 🦋 has disabilities that make 🦋 very slow. So 🦋 can only write a tiny fraction of the things that 🦋 would like to write on. 🦋 hopes that friends on Friends Book will enjoy 🦋 posts in Friends Book4y

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A new member looking for friends on Friends Book

Hello, I just joined Friends Book 2 days ago. I am a friendly person and I would like to have a lot of friends on Friends Book. In BBS most 👫👬 know me as 🦋. At one time I was not 🦋 but 🐛 The post below has a poem about the 🐛 who became a 🦋 🦋 hope that you will enjoy the poem as well as become friends with 🦋 Thank you for reading this post from a 🦋 who wants to be your friend.4y

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🦋 Congratulations to BBSMATE

🦋 just joined this community in order to post this congratulatory message  and a review of BBSMATE. Congratulations for achieving the ranking of #8 and also qualifying for Wave 3 of the Growth Seeding Program. With the benefit of the Growth Seeding Program, BBSMATE will make further progress in the rankings. The number of members of BBSMATE is still small. Qualifying for the Growth Seeding Program is an opportunity to promote BBSMATE and to recruit more members. One of the ways of doing this is by making favourable reviews of BBSMATE on the BBS Board that reviews BBS communities. 🦋 has just made one  Promote BBSMATE by making more reviews and by commenting on the reviews of BBSMATE. The Reviews Board gives you the opportunity to promote BBSMATE without having to pay for any advertisements. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 Ha ha 🦋 just saw the post on a membership recruitment  competition. 🦋 will add a bit to this post so that 🦋 can enter the competition. If you are not yet a member of BBSMATE ,  JOIN BBSMATE  Make Friends and Make BBS tokens while enjoying yourself on Friends BookWith Facebook you will not be able to earn money or BBS tokens. So join Friends Book instead  After you joined , please make a short comment on this post stating that you joined so that 🦋 get credited for recruiting you. A big THANK YOU from 🦋4y

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