Dear Vic, Thank you for your well stated message! Sure "FaceBook" may seem like a frivolous indulgence to some, unimportant to the serious grown-ups among us, but I need to learn to use Facebook for my job, and it is *so complicated, I am having so much trouble with it. I wish that GWMicro would create a tutorial for using Facebook, and Twitter too. That would be the most efficient way to learn it. I have lots of other job responsibilities as well. What I need to do is learn to use the social networking site and to be able to access the information there as quickly as my sighted colleagues. I don't have hours and hours available to turn on and off browse mode and do all the other work-around things that seem to make the site "mostly possible" for others.
And that's what most of the people I ask who use the site say, "Well, you can do most things..." I need to do *all of the things that everyone else is doing, and in an efficient way. I am not finding a solution. Penny -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Facebook Hello John: Just because Face Book is not for you, it doesn't make it wrong. It is just the next step in social networking. We continue to face this as new technology arises . This happened with the telephone, cell phones, the Internet, personal computers, and so on. Many of us find ourselves expending a lot of effort to maintain the status quo. How often do we find ourselves working for an employer whose motto seems to be something like "we support yesterday's technology tomorrow" :) On the subject of cell phones, who would have thought that texting would be as popular as it is and that the word text would be changed into a verb? On the new technology front children are even playing with one another differently. Look at the XBox Live phenomenon. More and more children play with their friends in an on-line collaborate environment then ever before. Many of these friends they have met at schools, scouts, cadets, etc. Yet there are people with whom they interact who they have never met in person. This is becoming a challenge for parents. Also for children living with vision loss or a vision impairment this is going to be one of the challenges we face. I suspect they are being left behind in this arena. They may be intergraded or included in "the mainstream" however they might be isolated, because they are not able to take part in these on-line collaboration games. Vic -----Original Message----- From: John G [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Facebook Guys, ladies, gentlemen, can someone in plain English explain the facination with Facebook? I am genuinely interested to learn why the world and his wife are on Facebook. John At 13:55 17/02/2009, you wrote: >Hi, > >I recommend that you take time and have a lot of patience in learning >Facebook. > >You will need to use your mouse navigation keys to navigate most of >Facebook. If you want to invite friends, you need to navigate to the >friend's profile and there is a button that says, "Add as Friend." You >will need your mouse keys to do this. Another option, till you get used to >the site, is to have friends send you a friend request. This way you won't >have to hunt around as much. > >To add photos, route your mouse pointer to the top of the Facebook page and >click on, "Photos," Next, when that link activates, click on "my photos." > From there, you will see links to add photos. There are two ways to do >this, with Facebook's uploader or with a slightly slower, but sometimes >easier method, the Simple Uploader. > >Let me know your progress and I'll try to help. > >Janet > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >sender only. 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