{"id":1385,"date":"2008-12-11T23:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2024-09-25T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T23:01:53","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-youngsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2008\/12\/11\/keeping-up-with-the-youngsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up With The Youngsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m giving the Facebook another shot. If you\u2019re on the Facebook, you may have noticed I started updating my status, I think for the first time ever, over the past few days. I\u2019ve received a slew of friend invites in recent weeks, thus I\u2019ve been going in and approving\/ignoring them a lot. And, while doing so, I\u2019ve noticed a lot of friends are updating their status, posting news, and uploading pics on a regular basis. Apparently it\u2019s not just for the kids anymore, which probably means something better\/cooler is going to come along soon and replace it.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the meantime, I\u2019m going to give it a shot again. I\u2019ve got the Facebook app on my iPhone. I\u2019ve added Facebook as one of the bookmarks in my Safari bookmark bar, so it\u2019s always right there staring at me. This new strategy seems to have paid off already. I\u2019ve heard from a couple friends I haven\u2019t talked to or e-mailed in ages. It may be the perfect tool for us parents who are always chasing kids around, especially for those who have a hard time keeping up with e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I had about 800 invites for various games, challenges, etc. I just wiped them all out and started over, so if you had invited me to play some game, extend a wave, etc., nothing personal. That\u2019s just me cleaning up months of disuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m giving the Facebook another shot. If you\u2019re on the Facebook, you may have noticed I started updating my status, I think for the first time ever, over the past few days. I\u2019ve received a slew of friend invites in recent weeks, thus I\u2019ve been going in and approving\/ignoring them a lot. And, while doing so, I\u2019ve noticed a lot of friends are updating their status, posting news, and uploading pics on a regular basis. Apparently it\u2019s not just for the kids anymore, which probably means something better\/cooler is going to come along soon and replace it. But, in the meantime, I\u2019m going to give it a shot again. I\u2019ve got the Facebook app on my iPhone. I\u2019ve added Facebook as one of the bookmarks in my Safari bookmark bar, so it\u2019s always right there staring at me. This new strategy seems to have paid off already. I\u2019ve heard from a couple friends I haven\u2019t talked to or e-mailed in ages. It may be the perfect tool for us parents who are always chasing kids around, especially for those who have a hard time keeping up with e-mail. Oh, and I had about 800 invites for various games, challenges, etc. I just wiped them all out and started over, so if you had invited me to play some game, extend a wave, etc., nothing personal. That\u2019s just me cleaning up months of disuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15103,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}