No witty post, or confessions today. No humorous insights. Just a not of thanks to everyone who prayed for Cece, my niece's tiny baby girl who had surgery today to remove 20 inches of her colon that was not functioning properly.
Special thanks to Melissa Joan Hart who re-posted my prayer request on twitter, spreading the word to her 17,000 followers.
Thank you
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Social Media and the aging process
Going with a different color ink for the letters tonight, what do you think? Tonight's topic is social media and the aging process. As I age, I find myself more and more into this social media stuff, which is supposedly the domain of the younger generation. At least that's how it started.
My first real experience with social media came with MySpace probably about 4 or 5 years ago. Several of my friends from Domino's kept telling me how great it was, how you could reach out to your friends, how you could keep updated on music, etc. These were all pretty much teenagers I worked with, and I brushed MySpace off as just something for kids. Then I got an invite from my friend Doug Brown from my KLoRD days. He had set up a page to promote his music, so I joined, and quickly found I enjoyed it. I even did a bit of blogging. At time I had over 300 "friends", but most of these were bands, or people who were interested in the same bands I was. A few were friends mostly from Domino's, and young people I knew on the mountain here. I had only one or two friends near my age, a few voices from my past. I made my MySpace page as load and flashy as I could, and tried to convince myself I was as young and hip as most of my friends there. But as time went on I felt less and less connected to my MySpace friends.
Then about a year ago I think, I started hearing, "I switched from MySpace to Facebook, come Join me." from more and more MySpace friends. And so, I did. And it has been amazing. I have found friends from college, high school and the church I grew up in along with my KLoRd fiends, Mo Media friends, Camp O-Ongo friends and of course Toyota friends (All places I've worked). I currently have 210 and know at least 200 of them personally. I read an article a few months ago that "old people" are ruining facebook. By their definition, I'm pretty sure I'm old, and I'm guessing most of my friends are too (My dad is on facebook and he's 82). I'm not sure what we've done to ruin facebook, but I say lets keep ruining it.
For months I was happy to stay in contact on facebook. I kept hearing about this Twitter thing, but had no interest. You know us old folks are slow to try anything new. Then a job as internet information director, or something like that came up at work, and I applied, but it said you needed to know twitter, so I quickly signed up for twitter. I didn't get the job, (Probably too old and unhip) and quickly abandoned my Twitter account.
Then came the swine flu scare and I found out that the CDC had a twitter account that posted swine flu updates. As any old guy who fears dying of swine flu would do, I jumped on twitter and started following CDC updates. Purely out of curiosity I started following a celebrity or two...oops! I was hooked. I now follow 152 people. Athletes, authors, celebrities, dancers, and a couple people I actually know.
I think it is a fun way to get a touch of who these celebrities are as real people. that is if you can find the real people from the fakes. Thank Twitter for Verified accounts to make this easier.
And now with Blogger, I am attacking the blogsphere and hope to gain some attention (or at least a few more comments) as a writer, so someday the novel I'm trying to write might be published, or at least made available on Kindle before I am too old to enjoy the royalties. So please read my blog post. Comment on them here (my comments are open to anyone, not just Blogger members). Share them with your friends. And promise you'll by my novel....whenever it gets published.
My first real experience with social media came with MySpace probably about 4 or 5 years ago. Several of my friends from Domino's kept telling me how great it was, how you could reach out to your friends, how you could keep updated on music, etc. These were all pretty much teenagers I worked with, and I brushed MySpace off as just something for kids. Then I got an invite from my friend Doug Brown from my KLoRD days. He had set up a page to promote his music, so I joined, and quickly found I enjoyed it. I even did a bit of blogging. At time I had over 300 "friends", but most of these were bands, or people who were interested in the same bands I was. A few were friends mostly from Domino's, and young people I knew on the mountain here. I had only one or two friends near my age, a few voices from my past. I made my MySpace page as load and flashy as I could, and tried to convince myself I was as young and hip as most of my friends there. But as time went on I felt less and less connected to my MySpace friends.
Then about a year ago I think, I started hearing, "I switched from MySpace to Facebook, come Join me." from more and more MySpace friends. And so, I did. And it has been amazing. I have found friends from college, high school and the church I grew up in along with my KLoRd fiends, Mo Media friends, Camp O-Ongo friends and of course Toyota friends (All places I've worked). I currently have 210 and know at least 200 of them personally. I read an article a few months ago that "old people" are ruining facebook. By their definition, I'm pretty sure I'm old, and I'm guessing most of my friends are too (My dad is on facebook and he's 82). I'm not sure what we've done to ruin facebook, but I say lets keep ruining it.
For months I was happy to stay in contact on facebook. I kept hearing about this Twitter thing, but had no interest. You know us old folks are slow to try anything new. Then a job as internet information director, or something like that came up at work, and I applied, but it said you needed to know twitter, so I quickly signed up for twitter. I didn't get the job, (Probably too old and unhip) and quickly abandoned my Twitter account.
Then came the swine flu scare and I found out that the CDC had a twitter account that posted swine flu updates. As any old guy who fears dying of swine flu would do, I jumped on twitter and started following CDC updates. Purely out of curiosity I started following a celebrity or two...oops! I was hooked. I now follow 152 people. Athletes, authors, celebrities, dancers, and a couple people I actually know.
I think it is a fun way to get a touch of who these celebrities are as real people. that is if you can find the real people from the fakes. Thank Twitter for Verified accounts to make this easier.
And now with Blogger, I am attacking the blogsphere and hope to gain some attention (or at least a few more comments) as a writer, so someday the novel I'm trying to write might be published, or at least made available on Kindle before I am too old to enjoy the royalties. So please read my blog post. Comment on them here (my comments are open to anyone, not just Blogger members). Share them with your friends. And promise you'll by my novel....whenever it gets published.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Celebrites examples of growing older gracefully
Good morning. My first morning post on a lovely Saturday. Today I'm going to tell you about three celebrities I feel are Growing older gracefully. Now let me emphasize I don't think these celebrities are old (They are I believe all younger than me) but they are growing older gracefully; that is they are older than they were when they first rose to stardom. It would be easy to list the child stars, and young Hollywood celebrities who have grown older ungracefully. The list goes on and on of stars who have faced addictions, troubles with the law and family issues. But I don't want to talk about them. I want to talk about three celebrities who show that you can come from success at an early age, and turn that into a really productive life.
First off is Alyssa Milano. You remember her as the cute little girl with Tony Danza in Who's the Boss or as one of the bewitching sisters in Charmed. These days Alyssa is the author of Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic and the designer of Touch, a line of sports fan wear designed specifically for the female sports fan. She will also be returning to TV in a mid-season series Romantically Challenged. But if that isn't enough, Alyssa is an avid user of the social media network twitter, sharing post on any topic she feels passionate about, from Dodger Baseball, to the Iranian Elections, to helping save a rescue dog. She is constantly using her popularity and celebrity for good causes and I salute her for proving that being a child star doesn't have to be a curse. Oh, and she still goes home for family dinners on Sunday with her parents and brother.
Another former child star who is growing older gracefully is Melissa Joan Hart, the star of Clarrisa Explains it All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Now in her early 30's Melissa is the proud mother of two boys. She has her own production company, and her own sweet shop Sweet Harts. She has recently relocated her family to the east coast to be closer to her mother as she recovers from surgery on a brain tumor. Melissa is also very active on Twitter and MySpace. And starting in 9 days you'll be able to watch her compete on Dancing with the Stars. Quite a long way from Clarrisa and Sabrina.
My third celebrity who I feel is growing older gracefully is the lovely Kathy Ireland. I remember Kathy from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. She was the covergirl of the 25th anniversary edition of the swimsuit issue. But what I remember most was hearing her talk about how after the shoots when all the other models would go out on the town to unwind, or in between shoots when there was down time, how she would spend her time reading the Bible. this really stuck out in my mind. Today Kathy has a design company that designs home decor, fashions, garden solutions...oh heck, just go to kathyireland.com to see it all. And beyond that Kathy is involved in a number of charity outreaches and worthwhile causes kathyireland.org will show you all of these. And she also is an avid Twitter user, giving advice to busy moms, and keeping us up to date on the causes she supports. And you can also see Kathy on Dancing with the Stars this season.
These three woman are shining examples that celebrities are not all spoiled brats, or wild party-going egomaniacs. Three cheers for these three stand out celebrities.
First off is Alyssa Milano. You remember her as the cute little girl with Tony Danza in Who's the Boss or as one of the bewitching sisters in Charmed. These days Alyssa is the author of Safe at Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic and the designer of Touch, a line of sports fan wear designed specifically for the female sports fan. She will also be returning to TV in a mid-season series Romantically Challenged. But if that isn't enough, Alyssa is an avid user of the social media network twitter, sharing post on any topic she feels passionate about, from Dodger Baseball, to the Iranian Elections, to helping save a rescue dog. She is constantly using her popularity and celebrity for good causes and I salute her for proving that being a child star doesn't have to be a curse. Oh, and she still goes home for family dinners on Sunday with her parents and brother.
Another former child star who is growing older gracefully is Melissa Joan Hart, the star of Clarrisa Explains it All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Now in her early 30's Melissa is the proud mother of two boys. She has her own production company, and her own sweet shop Sweet Harts. She has recently relocated her family to the east coast to be closer to her mother as she recovers from surgery on a brain tumor. Melissa is also very active on Twitter and MySpace. And starting in 9 days you'll be able to watch her compete on Dancing with the Stars. Quite a long way from Clarrisa and Sabrina.
My third celebrity who I feel is growing older gracefully is the lovely Kathy Ireland. I remember Kathy from the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. She was the covergirl of the 25th anniversary edition of the swimsuit issue. But what I remember most was hearing her talk about how after the shoots when all the other models would go out on the town to unwind, or in between shoots when there was down time, how she would spend her time reading the Bible. this really stuck out in my mind. Today Kathy has a design company that designs home decor, fashions, garden solutions...oh heck, just go to kathyireland.com to see it all. And beyond that Kathy is involved in a number of charity outreaches and worthwhile causes kathyireland.org will show you all of these. And she also is an avid Twitter user, giving advice to busy moms, and keeping us up to date on the causes she supports. And you can also see Kathy on Dancing with the Stars this season.
These three woman are shining examples that celebrities are not all spoiled brats, or wild party-going egomaniacs. Three cheers for these three stand out celebrities.
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