At times I can be a bit out of the loop, and as I have
pointed out here in the past, scared of change and resistant to it. Yes, I am a Gen-Xer but I am entitled to have
“fuddy-duddy” ways as some of my friends point out. Seriously, if is aint broke why fix it?
Being married to a man to who is in the IT world, and has
been known to build computer things from spare parts in the garage, is at times
a challenge. It took him years, years I
tell you, to really convince me to use email and the internet after I got out
of college. Now I wonder what the heck
took me so long since I now spend most of my time doing something on it. The latest hurdle, much to the amusement of my
friends, is I finally turned on text messages.
Yes I have lived this long without text messaging… so sue me.
My latest frontier to fully embrace in the new tech
social media world is Google+. I know it
has been out for nearly 2 years, but I am slow to jump on bandwagons. A few months ago I signed up for my free
account, joined some groups, a bunch of people friended me, but now what? Really, I don’t know how to work this newfangled
thing and I am really confused as to its purpose. Particularly why we as genealogists
have embraced it so fully while many other groups have nearly shunned it. Of course I said that about Facebook and now
I don’t know how I have lived without it.
Any one want to help enlighten me?
I have read posts by James Tanner,
Daniel M. Lynch,
Dorie Clark,
and many others. I do admit that I need to watch Dear Myrtle's webinar on the subject. Or the one offered by Family Tree University. That will be added to my to-do list.
It may be that I don’t have enough time in the day to
read everything, do everything, and be everything that I want to. In that case I may need to readjust my time management
skills. I am going to give it a bit more
time while I figure out how to use it more fully. Perhaps I am overwhelmed by the number of
messages I get in my inbox daily from the different groups I have joined. There is a lot of good stuff, just once again
not enough time to read and digest it all.
On that note, I would love to know what you love/hate
about this new way for genealogists to connect.
Is it a tool you use all the time?
Do you have any tips for me on using it better? Let me know your thoughts since I hate
feeling a bit on the frazzled side. I am
sure there is a reason why we love it so much.
I too am slow to jump on the bandwagon. First, there is too much I have to do --working on a 1200 person family tree for an archive--and second, I kind of wait and see how much other people like it. The Google+ circles seem friendly and useful, and I like them, but how can I keep up with Twitter and Facebook and Google+ and blog writing and webinars and blog reading and finish this family tree project?
ReplyDeleteTo me it's as much a question of quantity as quality. Our first grandchild is coming in August and I have to get to a stopping point!! So probably I'm not the best person to comment. Some great peeps spend time on Google+, that much is true . . .
You seem to have the same problem I do. People tell me that I must have tons of time to do this since I am primarily a stay at home mom. They obviously have no real idea what that means. There are days that I can barely keep up with the household chores as it is. :)
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