I avoided Facebook for many years. I just wasn’t interested. Then, following a conversation with one of my many cousins (28 at the last count, and that’s the ones I know about – rumour has it there are others!), it transpired that I was the only cousin on that side of the family who wasn’t […]
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Thing 7: Twitter
Ha! This one is easy! I’ve been on Twitter since February 2009 so I’m an old hand. I’ve got one account that I use to swap information with one set of friends, and another account which is related to a band I follow. I didn’t want to annoy my friends with pictures and news about […]
Thing 6: Accessibility
As someone who has a sight difficulty that can’t be corrected (for reasons that are too complicated to go into here), I often struggle with anything that’s on screen or printed on a piece of paper. My bugbear is small text in a serif font and in a pale colour! I am glad that there […]
Thing 5: Diversity
I have to confess that I didn’t see a downside to the new shades of emoji that were released by Apple. However, having read Paige Tutt’s article How Apple’s new multicultural emojis are more racist than before, I can see that the emojis could cause problems. You have to feel sorry for companies like Apple: […]
Digital Security & About Me
The 23Things Thing was to do with the security settings on smartphones. I think I’m probably OK on that front as I keep most things locked down. Call me paranoid, but I don’t generally advertise my whereabouts. If an app doesn’t need access to photos/mic/camera/location, why would I let it have access? More to the […]
Digital footprint
I’ve just looked at Thing 3 which is focussing on a person’s digital footprint. How many of us give any amount of thought to what we’re putting online for the world to see? I have, like many others, got a few e-mail addresses, 2 Twitter accounts, 2 Facebook accounts, a LinkedIn account and a Pinterest […]
23 Things
Let’s do this! Unaccustomed as I am to blogging, mostly because I’m not sure that I’ve got anything of importance or interest to say to the world, this looks like a good way of getting me into it. I’m used to using social media, having already set up Facebook, Twitter (my favourite because I love […]