More Facebook

There is more to Facebook than I realized!! It was frustrating to find groups to join, because there are so many groups but so few filters. Now that I've found 2 (thanks again, Jeff and speedylibrarian!) I am actually excited to see if anything develops....The 2 I chose are the UNT SLIS Unite! and Texas Library Association.

Facebook

Ha! For once, I am not a complete newbie to one of the "23 Things". I joined Facebook a year or two ago in order to view a video a friend of mine made of his mission trip to Kenya. Since then, I've collected 24 friends, mostly people from church. Oddly, about half are teens from my church that I don't know really well. Why they want me to know their musings, I don't know. Perhaps they want to collect lots of friends and I am a safe one, or the youth minister suggested trusted adults as a way of having a conscience about posts, or maybe, perhaps maybe I made some sort of impression on them when I was their school librarian way back in 8th grade????

I found the link to the articles on privacy helpful, especially grouping friends.

RSS Feeds

Okay, I was aware of RSS feeds for some time now, but didn't know that "RSS" stands for Real Simple Syndication. I also found the videos helpful. I went to Helen Blower's Library Bytes feed and signed up after watching a video about how news is being reported as it happens now via the Internet. Compare that to the Battle of New Orleans being fought after the War of 1812 was already over, or Juneteeth recently being celebrated because the slaves in Texas didn't know until June that the Civil War was over. And now we don't even have to wait for a newspaper to publish or a TV newscast to tell us what is going on in the world. Amazing, truly amazing.

Blog Reader

Interesting concept for those who spend more time on the Web than I do! Someone commented that Foxfire had a drop down menu to check on feeds. Perhaps this is what Explorer is doing with its new "slices" tab?

Image Generators

Of all the options for this post, I found imagechef.com the most fun and intriguing. I might even use some of the apps on my Facebook page! I also found the link to the various social networking sites (including Blogger) to be very helpful and useful.

By the way, the "fortune" I chose is meant to tie in with today's date (Happy July 4th!) but like most fortunes, is general enough to apply to just about any day during the summer!

Flickr Mashup

Thank goodness for instructions! Otherwise, I would be saving and adding each picture one at a time, like this:

I am not sure why the "L" doesn't want to line up, but I guess it adds to the whimsical look. Spelling with Flickr is fun! Even when there are small glitches...as with all technology, one just has to keep at it, learn from it, and be patient with oneself!

Flickr has very cool photos. This means that there are a lot of people out there with way more creativity and time to spend with their cameras than I do! I just scratched the surface of digital photography for a few years, working on the school yearbook. It was fun but frenzied.

I found that searching for photos was like a treasure hunt. If I were trying to do a school project, I might be a little frustrated in that there is just too much stuff to choose from. Searching just the tags helped to narrow it down a bit. Here is a photo that I like.