Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Brought to (Face)book


Buggery buggery, blast and arsebiscuits.

*sighs* Okay, I've joined Facebook.

I know: I've resisted for years. Vituperatively.  Because what I really don't need is another addictive platform for my ego that demands maintenance and steals writing time. But ... I'm supposed to be raising my internet profile for the sake of book promotion. I am being nudged, with pointy sticks, in the direction of the Communication Age.

So if you are on FB you can now find the fledgling Janine Ashbless page. Whooohoo! You can't Friend me because it's a professional/author-artist page, but you can Like me, which I gather is a similar if unrequited thing. I have no idea what I'm doing, btw. You may have worked that one out. I will post ... er, stuff.

Inside a week I will be loving it: I know my weaknesses.

And No, I am NOT joining bloody Twitter!
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10 comments:

  1. Kat Black31 August 2011 at 10:51

    Hey, me too! Signed up a few weeks back and NOT A CLUE about any of it. Just been sitting quietly in the dunce corner since. How do I 'like' you? Have you got a button-thingy somewhere?

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  2. Craig Sorensen31 August 2011 at 10:54

    Heh!

    I'm still holding out, but just yesterday I was telling DeDe and one of my kids that I'm going to have to break down and join sometime soon. Sigh.

    But for now, I'm still holding out...

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  3. Jo31 August 2011 at 11:16

    Your time will come, Craig. If you do it writery instead of everyone-you-ever-knew-y it will be more fun :)

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  4. Jeremy Edwards31 August 2011 at 13:16

    If you do it writery instead of everyone-you-ever-knew-y it will be more fun :)

    Especially if you like the sort of the silly word games we get up to there!

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  5. Janine Ashbless31 August 2011 at 15:32

    Oh Kat, high-five to a fellow newbie!

    How do I 'like' you? Let me count the ways...
    Actually there should be a "Like" button at the top of my page. Click on that, I think. I snuck in and made Mr Ashbless Like me!

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  6. Janine Ashbless31 August 2011 at 15:33

    Craig, I'm not going to urge you to do it, but there's a whole world of conversation going on out there that I knew nothing about...

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  7. Janine Ashbless31 August 2011 at 16:51

    AAARGH! I've just spent an hour on facebook looking at people's walls!
    My time is vanishing before my eyes!

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  8. Erobintica4 September 2011 at 16:28

    Well, glad to see you there. And since Google + started up, a lot of folks seem to spend more time there now (but I haven't gone there yet). I'm on Twitter, but it just doesn't do it for me - I don't get it - well, I do - but I don't.

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  9. Janine Ashbless6 September 2011 at 15:57

    I've got an invite to Google+ but I'm biding my time until ... er ... it's about to give way to the next best thing. After all, that's what I did with Myspace and Facebook ;-)

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  10. Jeremy Edwards6 September 2011 at 16:02

    As I understand it, pseudonymous profiles are not welcome at Google+, and the company is aggressive about ejecting pseudonymous people. Whether this also entails the risk of losing access to all one's Google-owned interfaces (e.g., Gmail, Blogger) is not clear to me.

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