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Comment on Why a blog is more attractive than a website by Judy Webster

Judy Webster — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:04:15 +0000

Interesting! I too have used TMG and SecondSIte to put a ‘family tree’ on my Web site, and I have had had many, many people contact me via the email link there. Most of my blogs are ‘educational’ (sharing tips about sources and techniques for research), but you have reminded me that I need to write more blog posts about my own family.

Comment on LibraryThing for local and family history societies by Julie

Julie — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:43:29 +0000

By chance I wrote for my Sunday Salon post my current project which is cataloging my complete collection of books, including articles/papers & microfiche. You can locate my catalogue here at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/anglersrest

Comment on Social Media for Family Historians by Social Media for Family Historians | berkshireresearch

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Comment on Picasa face-recognition scan conclusions by Celia Lewis

Celia Lewis — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:36:02 +0000

Carole, this is very helpful! Thanks so much for sharing the process and ins/outs of face recognition. One day… when I need another procrastination technique!

Comment on A first look at the new Facebook profile by Carole Riley

Carole Riley — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:55:03 +0000

Clearly the new Facebook profile is confusing and hard to manage for many people. It is now being rolled out to everyone and so there will be more problems like this.

Comment on A first look at the new Facebook profile by Jacques Thesing

Jacques Thesing — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:19:48 +0000

I am sorry to say that your time line is crappy and not well thought over.
Especially the fact that I am forced to check everything I put in in the past myself to see if it is still correct made me decide to hide all history to save me the burden.
Secondly I cannot get rid of the feeling that you have copied (stolen?) this whole timeline setup from WAYN (Where Are You Now), which by the way is a commercialized crappy site,
Thirdly I cannot see what others can see of me, except for the fact that I am told “only me” E.g. I hid “married” to “only me” but my friends (I checked) still can see???????
the setup of places where I have been, pictures, etc. is a disaster!!!!! Complicated, not logical, a headache to edit. And why do all of a sudden 111 pictures appear on the wrong place, with the wrong date, when I confirm that I have been in Indonesia based on a question with an album picture of mine on my home page (Note: my album shows the right place and date!). Security, reliability and consistency (I am getting a bit tired of changes all the time) are still abominable.
Under the so called “you can decide on any detail what is shown or not” idea it is now so complicated and time consuming to each time think of what to do that I feel giving up at all on FB
Last note, please leave out the TERRIBLE ‘Bing’ translation. What it makes of sentences is unreadable and a nuisance.
A very unhappy FB user

Comment on How did Facebook get my email address? by Carole Riley

Carole Riley — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:01:22 +0000

Kevin, it sounds like you got an email from someone ELSE suggesting that you become friends with this person, even though they hadn’t been on Facebook for over a week. It’s difficult to say for sure without seeing what you saw, but it had to have come from someone who already knew you and had your email address.

Comment on How did Facebook get my email address? by Kevin Mc

Kevin Mc — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:29:48 +0000

This is simply NOT true. Today I received an email requesting me to “friend” someone, and when I contacted that person he said that he hadn’t even been on Facebook in over a week. So how did they get me email address??

Comment on A first look at the new Facebook profile by Carole Riley

Carole Riley — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:28:01 +0000

You can implement the new profile by going into Developer mode. Here’s how: http://mashable.com/2011/09/22/how-to-facebook-timeline/

Comment on A first look at the new Facebook profile by Heyy

Heyy — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:33:19 +0000

Isn’t it possible to update our profile ourselves before october ?? if so,pls leme know how to do dat..