This was an interesting excercise and I apparently I was part of ning already because when I went to the page it pulled up my info...I had my facebook opened at the same time, so I don't know if it pulled it off my facebook info, because the photo it showed of me is the same as my facebook profile photo.
So I logged in and went to adding! I added a "cat lovers" group, the "foodtube" group, a bird watching group, a Celtic friends group. Altogether I am now a group member of 5 groups and very interested to see what comes of my group choices, what each group offers, etc.
In a forum of the "Celtic Friends Network" they are conversing about a "Celtic Symbols Encyclopedia", which I would love to look at. The foodtube.net group looks SO AWESOME...all kinds of ethnic food recipes, videos, etc...I have been majorly expanding my food horizons the last year or so...and with these videos and all I can learn even more! I am stoked about using this at home. In the foodtube forum there is a FREE SAMPLES thread which looks gooooood...free starbucks ice cream bars...HECK-TO-THE-YES!!!!
I look forward to exploring these even further and participating in the groups I joined and finding more. Possibly some in our area.
The issue I had with joining the groups is that each time I joined I would have to fill out yet another profile, email, password, etc...that got old. I wish there would have been a way to just use a blanket profile instead of writing one for each group. But they were brief, and I kind of see why they do it, but it looks like they could find a way to improve that some.
Not my fav thing...but I don't hate it either! :)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
My lucky number 9 - Facebook Groups, etc.
Having had a facebook account for a few years now I am actually, and I was surprised at the number myself, but I am actually a member of 222 groups! lol (yes, I know that's excessive, I do nothing in moderation!) I wil gladly name some of my groups...
I am part of the "Fuzzy's Taco Shop" group, I am a member of a small, yet amusing group called "Why, yes, I do frequently burst out in song", I am a member of many political groups which will go unwritten, I am a member of many Dallas Cowboy groups, and Texas Longhorn groups or two, I am a member of "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet"...obviously with 222 groups on my profile I could name groups for days, but I will spare us all. I LOVE groups and there is one for almost anything. I LOVE Converse shoes, last week I found 3-4 groups regarding the love and adoration the some have for these awesome, classic shoes.
YES! I have been ELATED to have people from elementary school, church camp, high school, college, etc contact me. My long lost best friend for 15 years moved away and changed jobs and we had not spoken for years and I longed to hear from her...one day there she was asking to be my friend on facebook. My first crush when I was 4 years old, he was much older (go figure!) added me recently...talk about a trip down memory lane! Actually this coming weekend many of us who reunited on facebook are meeting at an ice house near my hometown to watch a band and get caught up...I'd have never even been speaking to any of these people had it not been for facebook. The only way I know how my own brother is doing is his daily posts on facebook. So I haven't just had one happy story I have one all the time! I love it!
I am part of the "Fuzzy's Taco Shop" group, I am a member of a small, yet amusing group called "Why, yes, I do frequently burst out in song", I am a member of many political groups which will go unwritten, I am a member of many Dallas Cowboy groups, and Texas Longhorn groups or two, I am a member of "When I was your age, Pluto was a planet"...obviously with 222 groups on my profile I could name groups for days, but I will spare us all. I LOVE groups and there is one for almost anything. I LOVE Converse shoes, last week I found 3-4 groups regarding the love and adoration the some have for these awesome, classic shoes.
YES! I have been ELATED to have people from elementary school, church camp, high school, college, etc contact me. My long lost best friend for 15 years moved away and changed jobs and we had not spoken for years and I longed to hear from her...one day there she was asking to be my friend on facebook. My first crush when I was 4 years old, he was much older (go figure!) added me recently...talk about a trip down memory lane! Actually this coming weekend many of us who reunited on facebook are meeting at an ice house near my hometown to watch a band and get caught up...I'd have never even been speaking to any of these people had it not been for facebook. The only way I know how my own brother is doing is his daily posts on facebook. So I haven't just had one happy story I have one all the time! I love it!
#8~~~Facebook Rules~~~
I saw facebook as a topic and smiled. I am a facebook junky. I admit, I resisted at first, hearing it was for college kids and I was a myspace kind of girl. I enjoyed the page design, HTML coding, aspect of making a myspace page. Things changed and myspace turned into booty-call central and I knew it was time to make the move. When I initially set up my profile I was one of a few people from my high school and from my library that used facebook. Within a matter of weeks and months everyone I work with was on it too. Then suddenly people from high school and college whom I had not seen in 20 years were adding me on facebook...it was like a virtual reunion of sorts.
At work we use it to see where people are, to chat back and forth from office to office, and the library has it's own page that our staff posts library and academic-related news for our student subscribers, and slowly but surely we have a student following. We post an announcement and low and behold they respond back with their thoughts, comments, etc.
I love facebook to add my favorite shows, restaurants, clothing stores, comedians, and the list goes on...by adding chik-fil-a we learned that last Friday if you dressed up like a black and white cow and go into a store you would eat for free. Starbucks sends out specials and freebie notices on there as well. One of my favorite shows, "No Reservations" on the travel channel tells me when the season premier is...and I have the option to give a thumbs up on what I like and what I think is good.
The anonymity issue is an issue, but resist it all you want, we are a society moving towards having our entire existence floating around in cyber space, so you might as well test the waters while they are still simple and shallow. What I like about facebook, as far as privacy goes, is yes, you put a name on there, however, only those you allow to look at your profile can look. Sure, they can pull up a photo, and maybe the area you live (if you put that in) but don't feel like you have to put a photo of yourself. My alter-ego and super hero is Super Girl, so my facebook profile sports a lovely pic of Supergirl and her long, blonde locks flowing in the wind. I am a long-haired blonde, but I don't wear a cape (not in public anyway) so even if they find me, without my allowing them access to my profile all they will know about me is that I live in "Funky Town" and I am a Supergirl fan named Elizabeth. Anonymity is a real issue and I don't intend to make light of it at all, however, online existence is the way we are headed and denying that will only prolong the inevitable.
I love the facebook quizzes! I am aware that they do allow those people to look into your profile and things I probably have no knowledge of...and I may suffer repurcussions from it down the line...but it will be and 1000's of other quiz addicts taking the fall together.
To me the fear of online, social networking anonymity is less than my fear of handing over my debit card at a restaurant, store, etc...we have this false sense of well-being. So we try to be careful and do the wise thing to protect ourselves. The same goes for any online platform.
I can hardly go the weekend without a visit to facebook. But I attempt to have 2 days facebook free, yet it beacons me throughout the weekend and sometimes I can't help but to give in...because I always need my facebook fix!
At work we use it to see where people are, to chat back and forth from office to office, and the library has it's own page that our staff posts library and academic-related news for our student subscribers, and slowly but surely we have a student following. We post an announcement and low and behold they respond back with their thoughts, comments, etc.
I love facebook to add my favorite shows, restaurants, clothing stores, comedians, and the list goes on...by adding chik-fil-a we learned that last Friday if you dressed up like a black and white cow and go into a store you would eat for free. Starbucks sends out specials and freebie notices on there as well. One of my favorite shows, "No Reservations" on the travel channel tells me when the season premier is...and I have the option to give a thumbs up on what I like and what I think is good.
The anonymity issue is an issue, but resist it all you want, we are a society moving towards having our entire existence floating around in cyber space, so you might as well test the waters while they are still simple and shallow. What I like about facebook, as far as privacy goes, is yes, you put a name on there, however, only those you allow to look at your profile can look. Sure, they can pull up a photo, and maybe the area you live (if you put that in) but don't feel like you have to put a photo of yourself. My alter-ego and super hero is Super Girl, so my facebook profile sports a lovely pic of Supergirl and her long, blonde locks flowing in the wind. I am a long-haired blonde, but I don't wear a cape (not in public anyway) so even if they find me, without my allowing them access to my profile all they will know about me is that I live in "Funky Town" and I am a Supergirl fan named Elizabeth. Anonymity is a real issue and I don't intend to make light of it at all, however, online existence is the way we are headed and denying that will only prolong the inevitable.
I love the facebook quizzes! I am aware that they do allow those people to look into your profile and things I probably have no knowledge of...and I may suffer repurcussions from it down the line...but it will be and 1000's of other quiz addicts taking the fall together.
To me the fear of online, social networking anonymity is less than my fear of handing over my debit card at a restaurant, store, etc...we have this false sense of well-being. So we try to be careful and do the wise thing to protect ourselves. The same goes for any online platform.
I can hardly go the weekend without a visit to facebook. But I attempt to have 2 days facebook free, yet it beacons me throughout the weekend and sometimes I can't help but to give in...because I always need my facebook fix!
Lucky Thing # Seven - RSS feeds
I have a confession...I consider myself fairly tech savy and try to stay abreast of the latest and funnest thing floating around online, or making our lives easier. I am lucky enough to work in a library in which we get a lot of workshops and education regarding this type of thing, and I have listened about RSS feeds, heck, between you and me I have pushed the little orange RSS feed buttons before, and couldn't figure out where the stupid thing went...DUH!
But now I get it, now I use it, and I will continue to do so, until something else along the horizon comes in to take it's place. Technology reminds me of a new car, you look for the latest and greatest with all the bells and whistles and go devote yourself to making a purchase...drive it off the lot and something new and better takes it's place a week or so later. (Well, like a new car aside from google reader and RSS feeds being free and cars outlandishly priced.)
I consider myself set. I added my yahoo news, that I cannot make it through a morning without at least glancing at it. I added recipezar, so that the new recipes and food blogs can tempt and torture me all day long. I added Texas Monthly feeds, because I love their website and the magazine itself and all it has to offer. I added the TED talks updates page, a page that I enjoy looking at, yet forget to do so regularly, and it will be very valuable to have that update.
And, just as the video said...it, along with Google Reader itself...IS ADDICTIVE!!!!
Of course, between you and I by the time bedtime rolls around each night my shoulder aches and burns anyway from excessive mouse use...I predict that will be similar to "tennis elbow" or carpal tunnel..."mouse arm" the syndrome of the new millinium! But what a way to go!
But now I get it, now I use it, and I will continue to do so, until something else along the horizon comes in to take it's place. Technology reminds me of a new car, you look for the latest and greatest with all the bells and whistles and go devote yourself to making a purchase...drive it off the lot and something new and better takes it's place a week or so later. (Well, like a new car aside from google reader and RSS feeds being free and cars outlandishly priced.)
I consider myself set. I added my yahoo news, that I cannot make it through a morning without at least glancing at it. I added recipezar, so that the new recipes and food blogs can tempt and torture me all day long. I added Texas Monthly feeds, because I love their website and the magazine itself and all it has to offer. I added the TED talks updates page, a page that I enjoy looking at, yet forget to do so regularly, and it will be very valuable to have that update.
And, just as the video said...it, along with Google Reader itself...IS ADDICTIVE!!!!
Of course, between you and I by the time bedtime rolls around each night my shoulder aches and burns anyway from excessive mouse use...I predict that will be similar to "tennis elbow" or carpal tunnel..."mouse arm" the syndrome of the new millinium! But what a way to go!
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