Armchair BEA Day 2 Social Media

Good morning.

Happy Thursday.

Happy Day #2 of Armchair BEA.

One of today's topics is: Social Media.

I suck at it.

Let me just blame it on being a tad bit over 50.

(except that's no excuse, because I know many bloggers over 50 who are very proficient in other forms of social media)

So....being over 50 (just a tad!) is not an excuse?

Too lazy to learn?

Too dumb to learn?

Too impatient to learn?

Let my just say  that I'm speaking specifically  of Twitter right now.
I do have a Twitter account

@afridayfriend

but I really don't get it, so once in a while I'll tweet out a random thought and then get really self-conscious about those random thoughts (although for Steve Martin they work very well...go figure?).

I do think Twitter does automatic Tweets for me on my Goodreads account and some of my blog posts.

I want to join in on Twitter conversations sometimes, but I don't know if I'm supposed to??!!  

Seriously, do i just POP IN?  

And Twitter parties?  Most times the timing is off for me on the West Coast.

I could probably make it work, but therein lies the 'too lazy' excuse.

Too lazy, but also too impatient. 

Yesterday, I tired to participate in the Instagram challenge, but I accidentally put the wrong hashtag on my photo.

I did this at Easter too.... took a photo of my grandchildren and #wastertime, instead of #eastertime.

You know I was not the ONLY ONE who did this.  There are tons of  Easter Instgram photos hash tagged with #waster.

But my (supposed to be) grown up sons would not let me live that down and started hashtagging everything #waster.

Instagram  = afridayfriend

NOW,

I do realize that most of you today are writing about how to utilize and expand your blogging experience thru Social Media. 

While I am just writing about what a social media dork I am.

Altho,

the Friday Friends does have a Facebook page

And I am on Goodreads (as Debbie Stone)

and those two I can handle without any faux-paux  for the most part.

Back to the social media dork...

it's okay.

Because, for me, this is just a hobby.

I don't review books,  I just 

LOVE TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS

and find out, thru  your blogs, what's good, what's trending and what I should read next!

I love your blogs!

I love your tweets  (even if I'm just a voyeur) 

I love your instagrams

and

Goodreads  suggestions/ratings.

And there are a few of you out there, whom I just really love... gotten to know thru emails etc.

Now....somebody explain Tumblr to me....

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The other topic today is

Visual Expressions

There are so many ways to tell stories. Whether it's comic books, graphic novels, visual novels, webcomics, etc, there are quite a lot of other mediums to tell a story. On this day, we will be talking about those books and formats that move beyond just words and use other ways to experience a story.

One silly fact about this 'tad-bit' over 50 blogger...

I love X-Men Comics.

(visual?)

I don't buy them --mostly because comic books are $5.00 and I can read them in 15 minutes.

But I raised 3 boys and they liked them, so...  I just kind of grew to love them.

But, as a rule, I don't read in graphic form.