Panic!!

Today was not my typical day.  It started with a doctor appointment (which went well and I will tell you more about it in a future blog).  On my way home, I planned on stopping at my favorite antique store in downtown Garland.  It's my favorite because the owner, Karen, find the best antiques.  Karen and I are kindred spirits and our relationship has evolved a small business owner and client relationship to friends.

As I walked in the front door, I heard Karen yell from the back of the store "Hey Melissa, I need your help!"  I quickly stashed my purse and headed her direction.  This was shortly after 12:00.  Thursday is typically a slow day for Karen.  However, this was not the case today.  I'm not sure if there was something in the water or if everyone in the Metroplex decided they needed antiques today.  Karen was slammed (which yea for her, I like seeing a small business do well).  Before we knew it, it was 5:00 and time to close.

I don't know about you, but my small business depends on word of mouth and social media (insert shameless plug click here for AWESOME Jewelry ).  This means I spend a lot of my day checking Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other sites.  By the time I had dinner and discussed the day with my husband, it was 7:30.  Horror of horrors! I hadn't been on social media since 9:00 AM. And that is when the panic set in.

10 hours had passed!  That's like 1000 years in social media time.  What had I missed?  I could have gone from obscurity to "It Girl" and back to obscurity without even knowing it (okay, that's a wee bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point).  Think of all the awesome pins I had missed in those 10 hours (please, contain your gasps of shock and horror).

In my "panic" I realized I just may spend to much time on the internet.  This will require more thought and further investigation.  I may need to run an experiment in the near future and see if I can stay off Twitter and Facebook for a full 24 hours. Will my world come crashing down on me or will I survive to blog about it?  This could prove to be interesting...

While I ponder my experiment, let me share with you the coolest pin I've seen today:

I just KNEW Texas was God's country! Even the clouds agree!

Until Tomorrow - Melissa

PS - If you are a social media addict like me, feel free to follow me on Facebook
or on Pinterest or on Twitter @melissacreamer

It's My Blog and I'll Cry If I Want To

Welcome to Random Thoughts from Melissa.  Today I'm going to complain.  Occasionally I must get something off my chest. Today is one of those days.

There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth regarding Facebook and the new timeline format.  Myself included.  In a recent post I called the May 4th forced switch "craptastic" followed by abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind. I must thank http://www.thesaurus.com for having such choice words at the ready.


Timeline in of itself is irksome.  I'm not big on change to begin with.  I cried, CRIED, full on boo-hooed when I traded in my 1999 Ford Escort with 170,000 miles in March of 2009 for my Honda Civic SI.  Who does this?  The dealer thought I was off my nut. I still get a little misty when I see similar cars.  But I digress...


Tonight I decided I wanted to update my profile picture.  Hardy har har.  You can upload pictures into new albums, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to add a picture to an existing album.  I consider myself fairly tech savvy.  I can normally figure computer type thingies (technical term there) pretty easily.  After my normal poking around, I couldn't figure it out, so I resorted to help.  Here is what I found

Facebook's own help file says to use the upload button on the right.

Hahahaha.  Facebook, you are so funny.  There is no longer an upload button on the top right corner.  I think your developer guru's missed something.  In fact, I think your testers also missed something.  


Here is my unsolicited advice Facebook.  No one likes timeline.  I can't recall seeing any posts praising this technological break-thru.  I have seen A LOT of complaining.  Why don't you put things back they way they were, you know, working.  Go back to the drawing board and develop something that doesn't enrage your users.  Remember what happened to MySpace?  People didn't like all the pedophiles, so they ran to you.  Watch out, make enough of us mad and we'll move onto the next social media site (maybe Google might be in a position to win...probably not).  


Whew! I feel better all ready. And there you have it dear readers, my Random Thoughts for today.


Until Tomorrow - Melissa