A lovely and uplifting one minute video tribute to Robin Williams. This is how I would like to remember Robin Williams.
99 Days of Freedom Experiment- Quit Facebook and report happiness
Would you be happier if you were off of Facebook? This Dutch nonprofit initiative has created a website, 99 days of freedom, and is asking people to try their own experiment. My own kids left FB years ago. On their own. They felt like the fights, the gossip and the drama was not worth it. All three of them say they are quite happy to not be on Facebook. Most of their friends are not on anymore either. The young people who still use it, tell me it for family and to keep in touch with their grandparents and family. How they use it has changed dramatically. The young people I am speaking with are college age and high school. Most of them use Instagram and snapchat to communicate now. Facebook paid one billion dollars for Instagram in 2012, so they found […]
How do you feel about Facebook secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions?
In many ways, Facebook owns you. When you clicked that little TOS box, (terms of service), you agreed to let Facebook use your content and photos. Now they have done something that I feel is ethically wrong. You and your friends, and followers may of been part of an experiment conducted by manipulating your feeds. Facebook manipulated over 683,000 of it’s users feeds to see how people reacted to either positive or negative posts from their friends. Conducting secret psychology experiment on users’ emotions. You can add this worry to your lack of control and privacy online with Facebook. Facebook has conducted a secret massive psychology experiment on its users to find out how they respond to positive and negative messages – without telling participants. The article above is from the Telegraph, UK and it is quite detailed. If you would like to read […]
Search Engine Submission Services are a Scam
This article is from Bill Hartzer . He said everything I was going to say. Thank you Bill! Great article, visit his site for other good articles. I officially officially declare that all search engine submission services are now scams. If you receive an email from anyone claiming to offer search engine submission services or a similar submission service–it is spam and also a scam. In a recent Google Webmaster Forum thread, a Google representative officially stated: these services are not needed and can even be counter-productive Yes, search engine submission is officially dead–and officially a scam. Take a look at the UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email–spam) email that I received just recently, it looked like this: The email is offering “search engine submission services” and the service, which costs a hefty $75.00 per year provides “submission and search engine ranking for domain owners”. […]
San Francisco Writers Conference | WordPress Training Class
Most of you who know me, know I have been part of the San Francisco Writers Conference for 10 years. A friend of mine asked me if I would like to volunteer , and I was so excited. The conference was then held at the St Francis Hotel, and I loved every minute of it. Here is a photo of the volunteers for that year! 2005. The only two from this photo who are still volunteering, are Kate Farrell, and myself. I am sure we are missing a few people in this photo. We have 75 volunteers, so it is a big crew. As the Volunteer Director, I must say our volunteers do an amazing job. We could not put on this wonderful event without all of their help. Kate is the current President of the Women’s National Book Association, […]
Do you use Twitter? Sometimes fun things do happen.
Twitter. Ah twitter. Say it all in a #hash tag in under a 130 characters. But say what? And say it to whom? I am still not sure what I am suppose to do with twitter. I feel like a small fish in a very big sea. Sometimes though a fun thing happens, and you realize maybe the world is not so big and vast when it comes to people touching other people. I love Masterchef Australia, and then I started watching Masterchef UK season 9, and I just finished it last night. It was quite enjoyable. The cooking was amazing. One of the contestants you could not help but like and root for is a talented young lady named Natalie Coleman. She is a lovely person, humble, hard working, sweet and close to her family. She feeds her Grandpa […]
Fake Email, Scam Email, Is it real?
Fake email, scam email. Every day most of us probably get some. I am just going to start a list with samples of fake or scam emails in this article, and keep updating it as they come in. I have many email addresses, so I tend to get almost every scam or fake email going around at some point. I have seen everything, so when I get one I have not seen before, I want to warn people. I get so many bad, fake, scam emails, that I usually just delete them. Then I meet people who fall for them and it breaks my heart. Many people are too ashamed to tell anyone. They feel like fools. The best prevention is education and warning others. Share your knowledge if you know older people who still believe these emails are real […]
Fruit Spam using Instagram-Beware of links
Fruit spam? Fruit spam. If you’ve been noticing a strange rise of fruit-related pictures in your Instagram feed today, don’t worry. Your friends haven’t become (even more) obsessed with taking pictures of their healthy meals. Well, you might want to worry a wee bit, because the pictures might be linked to a fruit-themed spam attack that’s slowly making its way around the popular photo-sharing service. It’s unclear just how said spammers are getting a hold of users’ login credentials, but the attack results in a number of pictures of fruit – of all things – being posted to a person’s Instagram account. The text accompanying the pictures also includes a Bitly hyperlink – clicked on more than 35,000 times as of this article’s writing – that takes users to a fake BBC page promoting weight-loss coffee. “Ever seen this stuff? I guess […]
Yahoo buys Tumblr. User Community Reacts. What is Tumblr?
What is Tumblr? Tumblr sold to Yahoo. Yahoo buys Tumblr, community upset. What do you think? Is this a good or bad thing?
Tumblr and Yahoo, click here to read more.
Failed Social Media Sites,Google products graveyard.
Failed social media companies, and google product graveyard. chronicling failed Google products and social media failures. Click here now to see the list.