The other day the local news had a piece about netiquette. It focused mostly on Facebook. The person on there said that people tell to personal of stuff. I say that if you allowed someone to be your friend on there that you should expect to read stuff that they would tell a friend. Some people do go over board and tell about every trip to the bathroom,that may just be what kind of person they are. If you don't like it delete them and join the white glove drinking group.
There is a group on Facebook called the."Everytime I get on the computer I end up on Facebook." OH how true it is. Mousehunt and the farm are my favorites. But its fun to see people I haven't seen or heard of in years. Kids I went to school with,former co workers, and people from all over the world. I give it another year and most will move on the the next shiny thing. Twitter anyone?
My misadventures in life with the help of my cast of supporting characters.
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Back to the Beginning
At the beginning of December my computer died. After 5 years of faithful service it just went off and wouldn't come back on. Some said it was the power source or something else that sounded expensive. I knew the time was right to get a new one. My Windows 2000 which I loved dearly was no longer supported by Microsoft.
I really didn't feel like going around and checking all the different places. So I went to Best Buy. I had to wait while the young man was helping someone else. And I guess no one else worked in computers cuz anyone I saw go past did it fast with head down. No eye contact. Finally he was finished and I asked him a couple questions about the one that I liked. He told me I was stupid because it wasn't a Mac...I let him go on for a bit then told him that if he wanted to keep his job that he would shut his little mouth and not make the customer feel like they are stupid by pushing something on them that they don't want. Yes I did go on a bit and did have him in tears but really.
Got it home and hooked it up and hated it. No not because of anything the little boy said. Vista. Microsoft's latest way to drive the American public nuts.
Everytime I'd go to open a program or do anything a pop up would ask..."do you really want to do this?"...Well duh I wouldn't have clicked it if I didn't. I found a way to stop most of those coming up.
Then the other problem. It really didn't like my dial up. I could go out and make a sandwich,balance my check book,and play a couple rounds of free cell before a page would load. Running 56K but still. Slow...and god forbid that I was chatting to someone and trying to surf the net. So after it took almost 3 hrs to do my taxes online this year I signed up for high speed internet. I'm so proud of myself when the stuff came I hooked it all up by my self and ITS WORKS!!!! Now I get no sleep and I've become addicted to You tube. You go Susan Boyle....Anyway. yes I'm in the 21st century and loving it. Now I just need to get a bigger monitor and I'll be set. I still hate Vista.
I really didn't feel like going around and checking all the different places. So I went to Best Buy. I had to wait while the young man was helping someone else. And I guess no one else worked in computers cuz anyone I saw go past did it fast with head down. No eye contact. Finally he was finished and I asked him a couple questions about the one that I liked. He told me I was stupid because it wasn't a Mac...I let him go on for a bit then told him that if he wanted to keep his job that he would shut his little mouth and not make the customer feel like they are stupid by pushing something on them that they don't want. Yes I did go on a bit and did have him in tears but really.
Got it home and hooked it up and hated it. No not because of anything the little boy said. Vista. Microsoft's latest way to drive the American public nuts.
Everytime I'd go to open a program or do anything a pop up would ask..."do you really want to do this?"...Well duh I wouldn't have clicked it if I didn't. I found a way to stop most of those coming up.
Then the other problem. It really didn't like my dial up. I could go out and make a sandwich,balance my check book,and play a couple rounds of free cell before a page would load. Running 56K but still. Slow...and god forbid that I was chatting to someone and trying to surf the net. So after it took almost 3 hrs to do my taxes online this year I signed up for high speed internet. I'm so proud of myself when the stuff came I hooked it all up by my self and ITS WORKS!!!! Now I get no sleep and I've become addicted to You tube. You go Susan Boyle....Anyway. yes I'm in the 21st century and loving it. Now I just need to get a bigger monitor and I'll be set. I still hate Vista.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Monday, May 29, 2006
Staying Connected on the Internet
First I can't believe that its been almost 6months since I came on here. It must be my very busy life.......
Anyway I got an email the other day telling me that I should update my profile on HI5. I don't remember ever going on there but I hit the link and go have a look see. Yep it was one of those online communities I signed up for back last Oct.
Leslie (Superweezie) who I used to work with got me to sign up. I've never been back since. I looked around a see that my one niece and a friend have requested that I accept them into my network. They must think me a jerk because I haven't done anything and they both asked back in November.
So what are these online Commuities. Myspace.com, Yahoo 360. HI5.com, Connexion.org. Yep I'm on them all. There may be more but I've forgotten them.
I've done a search for my area and the same people come up in each one. I also noticed that the average life of a member is about two months and the they move on to the next big thing.
I pretty sure that I wouldn't join any of these if it wasn't for someone going "its fun you have to join". At 41 it isn't that much fun to see a bunch of kids misspell words in their messages as they try to hook up or tell about their lastest conquest/beer bash...I'm getting old I know it.
If you see me in cyberspace stop by and say hi. I may read it in four or five months.
Anyway I got an email the other day telling me that I should update my profile on HI5. I don't remember ever going on there but I hit the link and go have a look see. Yep it was one of those online communities I signed up for back last Oct.
Leslie (Superweezie) who I used to work with got me to sign up. I've never been back since. I looked around a see that my one niece and a friend have requested that I accept them into my network. They must think me a jerk because I haven't done anything and they both asked back in November.
So what are these online Commuities. Myspace.com, Yahoo 360. HI5.com, Connexion.org. Yep I'm on them all. There may be more but I've forgotten them.
I've done a search for my area and the same people come up in each one. I also noticed that the average life of a member is about two months and the they move on to the next big thing.
I pretty sure that I wouldn't join any of these if it wasn't for someone going "its fun you have to join". At 41 it isn't that much fun to see a bunch of kids misspell words in their messages as they try to hook up or tell about their lastest conquest/beer bash...I'm getting old I know it.
If you see me in cyberspace stop by and say hi. I may read it in four or five months.
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