I think I have been lucky in that I just did not miss the internet
age. I have always been interested in computers starting with the home PC and I
introduced my children to PCs as soon as they became available and the children
interested in them. The children are now both in their very late thirties and
both know all about computers. I am also very lucky in the
sense that when I have any problems or want a new gadget, there is always
somebody to advise and help me.
However, where I still have some problems is getting my head
around the social media. It is no longer as alien any as it was in the
beginning because at that time I could not imagine why I should ever need
social media. Now I am quite familiar with Facebook and can see the advantages.
I did not use it much in the beginning - it was just an easy tool to keep track
of what my friends and sons were up to but since I started selling online and
having my own fan page on Facebook I am slowly getting the hang of it. I can
now read the 'insights' and know theoretically, what I should do to get more
fans but I am not ready for that for the time being. At least I can see the
direction I should take.
With Twitter, I have more problems. Of course I now have a Twitter
account but I still cannot quite see the sense of 'following' somebody. Maybe
somebody will explain some day.
The same with Stumbleupon - I cannot see any advantages of using
this. Maybe, as with Twitter, somebody will explain someday. Of course, I do use
Flickr, which I think is easier to share than Picasa, but these two do not need
any explanation. They are just photo sharing sites.
What I do like though, is Pinterest. Pinterest is a social network
that I really love and it has saved me lots of money. I used to buy many
magazines, from jewellery making, to crafts, to making your home nice and
seeing, what other people do with their homes and houses, to gardening, etc.
However, what do you do when you have been through the magazines? I still have
piles of them lying around the house because there were some interesting
pictures and articles that I wanted to keep. However, when you are looking for
a specific article, you never find it again because there are too many
magazines to go through. The alternative, of course, is to cut the articles or
pictures out. Somehow, I never wanted to mutilate the magazines! So here I was
with all my magazines and then came Pinterest. It is great! I can search for
whatever I want or need and pin it to one of my boards! Additionally, I can
delete them whenever I think I have grown tired of that particular item or do
no longer need it. On top of that, other people do a lot of the work for me.
They search the net for interesting things and all I have to do is PIN IT!
Yes, I love Pinterest. Facebook seems to be a necessity but
Pinterest is a love affair!
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