I love to look back and read my journals from when I was younger. I kept a pretty steady journal all through high school and the first part of college. I have several. I love reading through them and laughing about how dramatic I was, or just downright crazy. Whenever I pick up one of my journals from high school/college I get a little bit sad that I didn’t keep a better journal after I moved to California when I [...]
I’ve noticed a trend lately, and it’s one that I’m not quite fond of. Many of my blogger friends will likely agree, and already have experience with this, but most of my friends and readers aren’t bloggers, and therefore need to be informed as to what is going on. I saw a lot of my Facebook friends over the last few months sharing more and more recipes via Facebook. My entire stream gets filled up with images of super yummy [...]
Yesterday my Facebook stream was FILLED with friends of mine tagged in the Southwest Airlines Free Tickets Facebook scam. This scam is particularly nasty because if you fall for it, it will post a picture to your account and tag a whole bunch of your friends. So if I’m a friend of one of your friends, I’ll see the picture in my stream with my friend tagged in it, even though my friend didn’t actually fall for it. That is [...]
Here we go again folks. I’ve seen quite a few of my friends posting this status update… In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times! (Anyone read…ing this can copy this text and paste it on their Facebook [...]
oh scammers, you are at it again! This time, you are being extra sneaky. Twice this week I have seen friends of mine TAGGED in this photo sporting a nice little link to a scam site. So even if it’s a friend that you KNOW would never click on something scammy, if one of my friends clicks on it and installs the app it could repost on their wall with ME tagged in it (appearing like I had clicked on [...]
Ever since I was young, I can remember my parents, teachers, and youth leaders encouraging me to write in a journal. To this day, I am grateful for that early encouragement. I have grown to love family history, and journal writing is a very important part of recording your life for your posterity. The problem is, sitting down to write every single day can be tedious and incredibly hard to make into a habit. I have even tried typing a journal on my computer [...]
I see it far too often in my Facebook stream. Friend after friend of mine falling for it, over and over and over again. People that should KNOW better! Although, at this point I would think that all of my friends should know better, but yet, I see it happening again! So let me just reiterate…. No one will give you a free gift card on Facebook (there are possibly exceptions for places giving out something MAYBE worth $5.00), but it’s [...]
I’ve said before that sometimes it’s hard for me to come up with posts simply due to the fact I just don’t know what it is that people don’t know! I was recently at my sister’s house and we were talking about updating our Facebook pages. She runs the super popular Super Healthy Kids, and of course you know what I do. Now that I’m more active on Facebook, I need to schedule my status updates throughout the day. I [...]
As is usually the case, I received a question from a reader, and was intrigued! The question was… “so, wha’ts up with all the new “non facebook ads” on facebook. Is it just a setting I have or what?” I responded with “I’m so confused as to what you are asking”. I had never heard of this before, and was therefore very interested in getting to the bottom of what exactly it was. She kindly sent me a screen shot of [...]
Alright, I’ve totally had it right now, and where is the best place to vent my shock/horror/frustrations, my blog! Yippie! I have a platform! Really, when I get all ranty it really becomes my best work anyway. So what is today’s wonderous rant about? PDA on Facebook. I have a friend, we’ll call him Billy Bob. Billy Bob is recently divorced, and has entered the wide world of dating once again. Now really, that’s great for him. I’m glad he’s [...]
I used to think a hashtag was a crocht ball that hipster boys kicked around in their bare feet. Apparently that’s a hacky sack. Did you know the 33rd anual World Hacky Sack Championship will be in Poland this year? I don’t know of any hashtag conventions, but you never know. I’ll keep you posted. Anywho, let’s get back on topic. A hashtag is just a way to tag a conversation. It’s mostly used in Twitter. If you see it in Facebook, chances [...]
Someone on Google+ shared this image… I’ll give you a minute to figure it out… With Google+ coming on the scene recently, and Facebook, and Twitter, and LinkedIn, and etc and etc and etc. It’s easy to become overwhelmed with all of the various features and networks of each individual social networking site. For someone like me, it’s actually important for me to be involved in as many as possible. I want to be where the people need my information, [...]
