Sharing your blog posts on Facebook
If you are a blogger, you would probably like people to read your blog posts. Maybe you have several blogs you would like people to read. You most likely have a Facebook account too, with people who are interested about what you’re up to on your friends list. Why not offer them your blog feed without having to teach them how to use a news reader? And the How To: If you have one blog Facebook allows you to directly import one blog into your notes. Every time you update, a note is automatically created including your post in whole,...
read moreTwitter is bad for your ego
It is of general knowledge that Twitter is hard to understand. Why is it so hyped, when there’s so little to do? On Twitter, there is two things you can do to make it valuable for you: Be interested or be interesting. If you can’t be neither, there’s nothing left for you on Twitter. You can’t go on polishing your profile endlessly, nobody looks at it more than once anyway. You can’t spend your time taking tests of what type of a flower you are or which movie you should see next. You can’t spend your time...
read moreWho will update your Twitter if you suddenly die?
About a year ago we were going through the process of migrating to Australia. In the process, to prove we are a genuine married couple, we wrote the last will in which we left everything to the other in case of death. However, while writing my will, I noticed a lot of quite unusual things that needed to be wrapped up in the case of my death. Like who is going to notify my online friends that I’m dead. At this point of one’s life it is pretty theoretical anyway, so it’s a safe distance from the actual event. So I started...
read moreConfusing social networks
Computers, the Internet and social networks can be very confusing to new users. People wonder, if it’s professional for a teacher to be on Facebook at all, or if we can ignore friend requests from people we hardly know. Some people can’t see the difference between a business network and a dating site, which is not really that surprising as there are still people who don’t know the difference between an email and an Instant Message through MSN. (Or the difference between a book and a magazine for that matter.) It IS...
read moreThings I hate about Facebook
We all love Facebook, right? Except when we hate it. Like these times: These are the10 things I hate about Facebook: 1. Cause invitations. You can’t do anything but join them, while you think that your membership in the “save polar bears” group will do tittley squat for the wellbeing of polar bears. 2. I hate that advertisement that wants me to take an IQ test to beat my friends who are, according to the advert, idiots with an average IQ of 122. 3. I hate being poked, being dragged to pillow fights and being gifted with...
read moreAvoiding people you barely know on Facebook before you sign up
On Facebook, you can search for people you know through your web based email address book (such as Gmail). You can then send a friend request or invitation to all people or selected people on that address book. If the person is a member, a request is sent to add them to your friends list. If not, the information is stored until that person joins, when a friend request is automatically sent to the person. That is why so many people find you so fast when you join. There is one negative about this though. You don’t necessarily want to have...
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