Is Facebook My Happy Place?
Reading Time: 4 minutesLook at those smiles on my Facebook page. Do you keep your Facebook timeline happy? Or do you keep it real? I’ve been exploring my Facebook persona recently and I think I do...
View ArticleSocial Planes: Soar Into New Communication Heights
Reading Time: 1 minute Too often I find myself reaching out to people via the internet. It’s easy, convenient, and when you want to talk about something uncomfortable, it makes it more comfortable. The...
View ArticleShare Pictures With Donate a Photo, Help Worthy Causes
Reading Time: 1 minuteImage: Donate A Photo Sharing photos online has become the norm for most of us, and now when you share those photos you can also help a worthy cause with the Donate A Photo app....
View ArticleKeeping Geeky Contact In College
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Miss Us?!” was the caption for this photo postcard sent to my daughter in college. Her brother and I worked hard to get the perfect shot. (Image By Rebecca Angel) ME: Did you...
View ArticlePulp Fiction in Pearl’s Peril
Reading Time: 4 minutesImage: Wooga media I’ll admit that I’m a casual gamer. Kingdom Rush and Plants vs. Zombies on my phone have gotten considerably more play than any game on my PC, and at the...
View ArticleHow to Keep Social Media from Eating Your Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage: Fran Wilde Let me be the first to say it: This is kind of a horse-has-left-the-barn post for me. My day looks like I ran smack into the opening credits for The Matrix....
View ArticleJoin GeekMom for the Oscars Sunday Night
Reading Time: 1 minuteJoin Rachel and Patricia as they chat on the GeekMom Facebook page about the Oscars. Image credit: Oscars.org. Did you get your invite to the Academy Awards? “No, despite some of...
View ArticleThe 5 Reasons I’m Sticking Up For Facebook
Reading Time: 6 minutesPhoto: Judy Berna Facebook has been accessible to the masses for less than ten years. Some love it, some hate it. I’ve had friends log off for good, saying it was taking too much...
View ArticleIn Defense of Time Spent on Facebook
Reading Time: 2 minutesBescot Railway Station circa 1962: Photograph used with permission of Ben Brooksbank, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Every so often I like to...
View ArticleReactions to Facebook’s New ‘Reactions’
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was greeted this morning with a pretty significant change on my Facebook desktop. When I hovered my mouse over a post to “Like” it, I was given icons for numerous reactions. As...
View ArticleMy Journey Through the Fine Art of Overextending Oneself
Reading Time: 7 minutesSomehow, my accumulation of Social Media pages is more cluttered than my actual life. How did this happen? Image: Lisa Kay Tate Part two in my two-part series on Social Media in...
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