For Pete's sake...this is ABSOLUTELY the last website I am joining!
I have an entire index card filled out with log in names, usernames, passwords etc.
There is nothing worse than being a 49 year old HACK trying to keep up with the exploding world of "Chatting" on the internet. I spend most of my time trying not to look incredibly stupid, in case some of my kid's friends see me out here in cyberspace.
I think I might like this twitter deal...only time will tell. I thought that I had facebook down pat, then they changed the whole site (probablly just so they could laugh at all us Ole Farts scrambling to keep up)!
Then I get an email saying a dear friend of mine that has moved to Shreveport is "following" me on twitter.
After hitting the "help" button and The "FAQ" button several times, I was able to make a post (we won't go into how long it took me to crop and post a profile picture). I'm still not quite sure how to send him a note or contact him personally, and I have to be at work in seven hours so I suppose that will have to wait!!
I guess I'll get off the computer now and go do something I KNOW how to do...like laundry and vacuuming.
Til Next time......COTTON
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Facebook..."MY" New Frontier
How do you make a 49 year old woman look stupid?
Invite her to join Facebook.
First of all I had to get my daughter to set up my account.
Then I found out you could upload pictures....requiring another consult with my daughter.
It took me a week just to learn to navigate around the site, took another week to figure out the difference between the homepage and the profile page.
After that, a friend sent me an email telling me I needed to set my site to PRIVATE. (I have a cyber stalker out there ya know)
That only took me an hour and three different tries.
Then they start throwing "hugs" and inviting you to "pillow fights" nominating you as "nicest person"..(yeah, RIGHT!) asking to fill out inane surveys, "sending chocolates"...the list goes on and on and on.
I finally found out that all of these things somehow raise money for children's charities. If I could figure out how to help I would, but just giving someone a "poke" was hard for me to understand....(Thanks again Massey).
On one hand I love the concept...have renewed many old friendships and made a few new ones.
On the other hand...after finally feeling pretty secure in logging onto the site...they change the entire setup.
It took me three days to find the groups that I had joined, still can't figure out how to copy a pic from my site and post it on one of my groups (Massey has pretty much dissed my desire for additional help) so I am left to flounder all around the site, hoping to hit the right button, app, key or status.
I guess that young people all around the globe are laughing at me responding to my own posts when I mean to be posting on other's posts, posting double copies of pics because I never know if the first one posted and are all wondering why I am refusing to help children charities.
Ya know, ten years ago...who had a cell phone except Donald Trump and drug dealers?
Now my KIDS have cell phones, ipods, laptops, PS3, WII, the list goes on and on.
My parents are most likely rolling over in their graves...wishing THEY had a cell phone to call me and say "STOP THE MADNESS".
It is just a sign of the times unfortunately...we are a wired nation.
Whereas a kid used to be glued to your hip...now they are wired to the entire world and reaching people, places and search engines that I couldn't have dreamed of... even watching "The Jetsons" as a kid.
The only thing I am missing is "ROSIE" the robot maid...maybe SHE could help me out with my technological attempts at keeping up.
What in the world will MY grandkids be doing one day??? Jetting over in their Hovercraft that they got for high school graduation to visit me in the ole folks home to help change my "Virtual Depends"??
I think that I am scared...really scared...is there an app on FB for that?
Invite her to join Facebook.
First of all I had to get my daughter to set up my account.
Then I found out you could upload pictures....requiring another consult with my daughter.
It took me a week just to learn to navigate around the site, took another week to figure out the difference between the homepage and the profile page.
After that, a friend sent me an email telling me I needed to set my site to PRIVATE. (I have a cyber stalker out there ya know)
That only took me an hour and three different tries.
Then they start throwing "hugs" and inviting you to "pillow fights" nominating you as "nicest person"..(yeah, RIGHT!) asking to fill out inane surveys, "sending chocolates"...the list goes on and on and on.
I finally found out that all of these things somehow raise money for children's charities. If I could figure out how to help I would, but just giving someone a "poke" was hard for me to understand....(Thanks again Massey).
On one hand I love the concept...have renewed many old friendships and made a few new ones.
On the other hand...after finally feeling pretty secure in logging onto the site...they change the entire setup.
It took me three days to find the groups that I had joined, still can't figure out how to copy a pic from my site and post it on one of my groups (Massey has pretty much dissed my desire for additional help) so I am left to flounder all around the site, hoping to hit the right button, app, key or status.
I guess that young people all around the globe are laughing at me responding to my own posts when I mean to be posting on other's posts, posting double copies of pics because I never know if the first one posted and are all wondering why I am refusing to help children charities.
Ya know, ten years ago...who had a cell phone except Donald Trump and drug dealers?
Now my KIDS have cell phones, ipods, laptops, PS3, WII, the list goes on and on.
My parents are most likely rolling over in their graves...wishing THEY had a cell phone to call me and say "STOP THE MADNESS".
It is just a sign of the times unfortunately...we are a wired nation.
Whereas a kid used to be glued to your hip...now they are wired to the entire world and reaching people, places and search engines that I couldn't have dreamed of... even watching "The Jetsons" as a kid.
The only thing I am missing is "ROSIE" the robot maid...maybe SHE could help me out with my technological attempts at keeping up.
What in the world will MY grandkids be doing one day??? Jetting over in their Hovercraft that they got for high school graduation to visit me in the ole folks home to help change my "Virtual Depends"??
I think that I am scared...really scared...is there an app on FB for that?
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