Saturday, September 12, 2015

Well, I'm Dumber Than That

One of my ideas for our family reunion is to get us out on the web so that we can share memories, photos, and information and to provide something for folks doing genealogy to ping off of.    Maybe even inspire cousins, kissin' or otherwise, to join us.  Although there are free sites that even provide some tools to build a standard web site, it seemed the quickest way for a non-web person like me would be through Facebook.  So I got myself one of these.


Turns out that I'm even dumber than the folks this book was written for.  Sigh.  So I've been sort of just stumbling around.  First discovery - Facebook doesn't allow for the posting of documents.  Oh, great.  You can get around it by posting IMAGES of documents, but one of the things I wanted to provide was resources that were searchable.  Double sigh.   Oh, well, plodding on. 


And of course I wanted to give out the URL at the Reunion but the site isn't yet eligible for a "vanity", or shortened, address.  So I had to print out this:  https://www.facebook.com/Whetsell-Felton-Reunion-The-Face-of-the-Past-the-Present-and-the-Future-1627633847507692/timeline/ .

But at least a few cousins have found me. 

5 comments:

  1. I hate the book of face. I have an account, but don't post anything much anymore. I will get on and browse around every few days, but the drivel pretty much stays the same.
    I had created a group of our family on facebook a couple of years ago. Had it set as invitation only, with a couple of my siblings as admins as well. It was primarily for info, so never had issues with not being able to post docs.
    How about using google drive or dropbox and allowing access to those who ask? Just a thought.

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  2. Yeah, that's facelessbook... Useless for anything other than BS'ing with friends/family.

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  3. Yeah, that's facelessbook... Useless for anything other than BS'ing with friends/family.

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  4. Yeah, FB sucks!
    But, it seems to be the best-of-the-worst game in town!
    For some stuff...

    gfa

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  5. Yeah, FB sucks!
    But, it seems to be the best-of-the-worst game in town!
    For some stuff...

    gfa

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