Social networking

Okay, this is something that I am not so good at in real life and so now I am supposed to do this on the web? Honestly, I can see that this was a valuable lesson and a good thing to learn about, however, I don't know if I just missed it or if this is something where you need to be using your real name. I tried several ways to remove my real name from the facebook site, but I couldn't find a way to do it. I did find the way to hide my birthdate, and I did mark the information as only available to my friends. I am just really uncomfortable with the idea of sharing this kind of information. However, it was still a good learning experience and I can see why teens think it is fun.

Flickr thing

Stovin Island Cliff Jumping
Originally uploaded by Brieanna's Lover

Well, Flickr is fun. I was not aware of what it was, I had heard of it and was meaning to explore it, and now I am really glad I got the chance to do so. I love to work on genealogy when I have the spare time. So the first thing that I thought of when I started reading about Flickr was that it would be a great way for people in my extended family to post their family photos and we could still have it be private. I have for years tried to institute a policy of sharing common ancestor's photos but people from the family either did not want to send photos for me to scan and post on my genealogy site, or they had privacy issues about posting the pictures on a public site. It sounds like Flickr may be the solution to my problems (in this area). Also, I tried a few family names and locations that I remember off the top of my head and found this beautiful photo of Stovin Island (). I did find some photos with family names that I recognize too! This will be another thing that I will definately be using in the future. ~~By the way, I have had so much fun with Finetunes from the last thing that I now have a play list of over 150 songs (accumulated from home, not work!).

Lots of fun with Music

Well, I really enjoyed this "thing". I first tried Pandora and it was okay, but seemed kind of uninteresting to me. I then tried the Fine Tune sight. This was more like it, I had lots of fun adding music to my playlist and no trouble at all finding 45 songs. As a matter of fact, I loved the way that this was set up, I started with some of my favorite songs and then clicked off and followed a link to some of the "similar artists" and had 45 songs in no time at all, some of which were songs that I hadn't thought of in years! I felt this sight was more intuitive as far as the set up and suggestions to make my playlist. Overall, lots of fun and something that I now intend to set up on my computer at home.

RSS Feeds

The RSS feeds are cool. I can see that these would come in very handy if say I watched certain stocks, or wanted the weather on a really up to date basis. Also, I guess if my kids school had a feed, that could come in handy. Overall, I think that the idea of having the news come to me to save my time is a great idea. What will they think of next??