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Facebook Messenger Is A Video Conferencing App

How to Set Up A Facebook Messaging Room. Many of us live inside of Facebook. We post personal, professional and family events and people, and are in contact with a broad range of people with whom we want to have daily contact. Facebook Messenger is a secure way to have text conversations with those people, and only requires a click to initiate a private chat. But, now, Facebook Messenger is becoming a true video conferencing app that is simple and easy to set up and use. In Messenger, scroll down to the people tab, click "create a room", and then share with your nearest and dearest. No Zoom needed. No muss, no fuss. Call me, maybe?

When Facebook Photos Become Google Photos

How To Transfer Facebook Photos To Google Photos. Do you know where your photos are? Probably scattered all over the place. If you have followed the FutureLawyer's advice, you have long since started using the best free photo aggregator and storage service out there, Google Photos. Just about every photo I have take for the last few years, and some earlier ones, are archived on Google's servers, and the service has gotten better every year. But, I also post a lot of photos to Facebook, and, while I can access them on the Facebook Photos page, they are nowhere near as accessible as in the albums and other ways I have them organized on Google Photos. So, check out this menu option the next time you are on Facebook, and preserve all that goodness in an organized fashion. You never know when you will have had enough of Facebook and social media. Backup, backup, backup.

Delete Old Facebook Posts In Bulk - Erase Your Past Indiscretions

Delete Old Facebook Posts. Have you spent some time during the age of social media being young and stupid? Of course you have. Those drunk Facebook posts, and the selfies of you being stupid are going to come back to haunt you, unless you clean up your act. Now, it will be a little easier to do so, with bulk deletion of old posts. The deletions don't become final for 30 days, so you can change your mind. But, if you don't want future generations to know what a tool you were, read this article. Be careful out there, and don't say something you can't take back.

 

Hey, Facebook Users...Get A Room!

Facebook Messenger Rooms. Enter a third major player in the burgeoning video teleconferencing app field. Zoom and Google Meet have been jockeying for control of the new normal way of group communication for weeks now; but, the 800 pound gorilla, Facebook, has entered the fray. With an installed base that dwarfs Zoom and Google, the billions of Facebook users who already use Facebook Messenger to communicate, now can create bigger groups for conferencing within the app they are already using all day long. It is now available for installation on your desktop, and I predict that it will be a popular option to keep in touch with family and friends, without the additional complications of learning a new app. Most of us use Facebook Messenger to send and receive private text based messages; but, now that more of us are using the video camera and microphone combinations on our computers, I expect that video calling will become much more popular among Facebook users. With all of its faults, Facebook has many positive impacts on many of us, and I have gone back and forth about it over the years. Now, an easy way to get facetime with our loved ones and friends and colleagues is more than convenient. It is a necessity to stay connected. Call me, maybe?

#WhiskyWednesday - Six Nerds Drinking Whisky And Smoking Cigars

Whisky Wednesday Thanks to Stephen Landry for thinking this up. We had an enjoyable hour meeting blogging friends online last night. We got to know each other in a way that was possible only because we are home bound, for the most part. We commented that our wives think we are nerds. I think we should wear it as a badge of honor. I know that my life is enriched by the blogging wisdom of these guys. The major missing piece was Michael Wade, of Execupundit. We missed you, Michael. What are you doing next Wednesday?

#WhyIAmASolo - The New Normal Is My Old Normal

New Normal? This article about the changing relationship most people have with the Internet talks about a new normal, in which social contacts, work, and most human interaction is being accomplished on the Internet, using social media, video teleconferencing, email, texts, and other tools to engage with family, friends, colleagues, clients and others. Some of us, however, have been doing this for years, and, as I have aged, I have learned how to stay involved by using all of the tech tools that are now essential to coping with a world in which human contact has become dangerous. I have used tech because I enjoyed learning about it, and have loved gadgets since my first Atari game system in the Eighties. I learned to use it because I wanted the freedom to practice law wherever I happened to be.  However, the big deal for me was the increased productivity I gained using tech tools and the Internet. When the blogging phenomenon began, I saw it as a way to get my ideas and views out to a larger audience. Then, social media allowed me to connect with family and friends and new friends in a way that old tech didn't allow. So, don't be afraid of this technology. Jump in, the water's fine.

Old People Are Glad That Social Media Didn't Exist When We Were Young And Stupid

Aren't you nostalgic for the old days, when we were judged on our looks, and not on our social media posts?

How About We Cancel The Cancel Culture?

The recent kerfuffle about the MSNBC pundit who inartfully compared the Bernie Sanders movement to Nazi Blitzkrieg and the resulting calls to fire him from the Twitterverse got me thinking about Cancel Culture. We are teaching our children that anything they say can be used against them in the court of public opinion. The Internet makes it easy to be a judgmental troll who wants to ruin everyone who says things with which they don't agree. We are teaching our children that the worst thing they can experience is to be offended by another's speech. Guess what, kids. We Boomers grew up with some much more serious stuff, like the threat of global nuclear annihilation. To paraphrase Rodney King: "Why can't we all just let offensive words bounce off our delicate brains?" By the way, this is an equal opportunity problem. Comics, politicians, business people and just about anyone who gets their 15 minutes of fame is being attacked for what they say, instead of what they do. Do we believe in free speech or not? Are we a free society or not? Asking for a friend.

#WhyIAmASolo - I Don't Have To Worry About Getting Fired For A Text To My Boss

Okay, I might lose a client if I use voice to text; but, my job is pretty safe from getting fired by my boss. Text on.

Self Promotion, For Lack Of A Better Term, Is Good.

Execupundit. Michael Wade describes being called out for his own self promotion, in this post from Execupundit. He uses a self laudatory promotional tag line "Someone You Want In The Room". Promotion oneself, and one's services, is a difficult thing. We are all schooled to believe that we shouldn't brag about our accomplishments. But, on the other hand, one of the truisms my mom taught me at an early age was: "Son, if you don't toot your own horn, nobody else will". So, in an effort to let the world know that we can be beneficial, and that we can give good service, we walk a fine line by be self laudatory in our advertising. In fact, if I had some decisions to make on management or other big issues, Michael Wade is someone I would want in the room. His wisdom and experience would bring a dose of clear thinking to any problem. So, Michael, we all want you in the room. And, just because someone wants you in the room doesn't mean you have to accept. Unless, of course, the money is good. (Hey, we have to eat). Hey, maybe I should hire myself out as a poet. Somebody you want to write a poem for you? I'm not cheap; but, I'm good. Toot, Toot.