Twittering and Tweeting Not For Me

Well, my pseudonym is 'Never Too Old'. I think I finally found something I am too old for. I just don't get the appeal of Twitter. Most things I can at least understand the appeal for other people. For example 'The 5 Minute Herald' doesn't do it for me but my husband furiously scans it every morning when he is in a hurry. For him it works and I understand why. I would rather get up earlier to read the 'real paper'. Twitter holds absolutely no appeal for me and for the life of me I don't get why others would like it. So I guess I am 'too old' for some things. Oh and by the way , does someone have a text message dictionary? Apparently I am also too old to learn a new language!

Library Thing

Well, I think the site is pretty good in general but I found the overall look to be kind of outdated. I know it isn't our site but it is kind of ironic given that this whole course is about looking and being tech savvy and up to date!

Online Productivity Tools

Do I see these free online tools eventually replacing Ms Office ,etc.? I really don't think so and I certainly hope not! I can see the application for specific people needing to print out say, resumes every so often or a cover letter without having to shell out for their own expensive software. However I personally feel that there are some things that should be private and confidential. Having certain personal documents on a web based application or depending on them being properly deleted would make me very uncomfortable. Although I use web based banking, etc. I, perhaps naively, assume that banks have better security than some random free document website. In addition, in my experience, there is nothing like being in charge of your own destiny. So many times my kids all the way through university would run into problems with servers being down when they were trying to access, print or read assignments, tests and exams that I have developed an aversion for allowing a machine to be in charge of said destiny!

YouTube and Flicker Entertaining?

To say that YouTube and Flicker are entertaining would be the understatement of the century! My first real intro to Youtube was to watch Susan Boyle's astonishing performance. The amount of time you could waste, particularly on You tube, would have to be measured in days or weeks! In terms of usefulness I would say that as a quick resource for a picture of this or a video af that it is pretty good. As far as the quality there is some pretty amateur stuff on there but also some very professional things as well. Overall, I think YouTube is best for things you have missed and Flicker best for posting photos to family.

RSS

I had no problems setting up an account. I'm still on the fence as to whether or not this makes info gathering easier or not. As I am not necessarily on a computer every day things may either pile up or become stale news! Time will tell I'm sure.