Will you be my friend?

This is something I will keep doing. It's really amazing to see all these people who want to be my friend. I feel like a first grader opening the little Valentine's mailbox at school. Oh, look! There's one with new pictures of the baby! I haven't seen them in who knows when! There are some cool vacation pictures! Who is going to the conference/family reunion/wedding?
When I get over the fun of this, I'll settle down to some professional networking and associations. Looking forward to that, too.

Facebook Finally

Putting together a "face" that I am willing to show the world is one of the more time-consuming and daunting parts of this assignment. A real picture or some sort of image? Do I tell them what kind of music I really like? I haven't thought about my "favorite" this or that in a long time. I'm just busy working a lot and taking care of my family. It feels rather self-indulgent to think about myself, and I'm only making time to do that because it's part of the course work.
Friends--I found my daughter right away and her facebook is a rich source of friends to tap from for my facebook. I found my 19-year-old son. Will he be my friend? I don't know if he wants his mother involved in his online life.
I had a little trouble adding schools. When I click on it, it just refreshes the same screen. I finally decided to type over the top of my first college and add TWU. I think it just substituted that instead of adding.
One odd thing that made me wonder about how facebook works. When I logged in to verify my account, it pops up a short list of suggested friends. So it says, based on our having both attended TWU, would I like to add Kimberly as my friend? This woman goes to church with me, attended the same undergraduate school that I did, and is on my daughter's facebook. Did it pick up the daughter link? I didn't even remember that she went to TWU!
My thing numbers have been off, I know, but I have done everything pretty much in order so far. Sort of mushing together the facebook assignments.

Saving Time is always a good idea

RSS feeds: I really like the concept of being able to see just the new stuff. Wouldn't it be nice if I could do that with most of my professional reading. Oh wait! I can!
I realize that I have to invest a little time up front to find the subscriptions that I need, but after that, these routed copies of various library and news publications --September issue makes it to my desk by January!--can just pass me by. I have been using Google reader for a couple of weeks and checking the new stuff, especially the cartoon, on a regular basis. I like it. I will keep it up. I promise. Cross my heart.

Readers & Followers

So I'm all set up in Google Reader and thinking about the potential exponential levels of complexity--a good reason to learn all the sorting and tagging tricks right away and I am anticipating more of the same in the next Thing--the RSS feeds.
I was excited to see that I have 3 followers, and only two of them are related to me. That's pretty sad in blog world terms, but it seems like an accomplishment, somehow. Hello, followers!
The Common Craft videos are great! Cut to the chase, save me time, and entertain me just a little as well.
As all things computer, there are multiple ways to do everything in social networking. If I put a blog on my Reader, do I show up as a follower? I'm going to look into that next time, and also doing something about my blog profile so that I can be a more interesting follower.
Then it's on to Facebook.