Week Two: Online Communities

I had previously created a Facebook page at the insistence of my sister-in-law. Never the less, I went ahead and reviewed the step-by-step guide, Facebook 101 and the other recommended links and found a couple of useful tips that I had not known about when I originally set up my account. This is particularly true with respect to privacy settings. Based upon what I read during the course of this lesson I have know "locked" access to my Facebook page down as tight as I think possible by giving access to anything remotely sensitive to friends only. I sent friend request(s) to Janelle Mercer and Heather Braum the mentors for this session. I hope the links to their Facebook pages here worked. I have received confirmation from Janelle but not yet from Heather. I have written on several of my family members walls. The other night, quite by accident, I discovered the live chat function when I was working on this 23 Things Kansas assignment on Facebook. Suddenly a chat window popped open with my sister-in-law chatting me up and we exchange inanities for about fifteen minutes. Now I really need to find out how to hide the fact that I am online when I log into Facebook. I explored Mashable's Facebook Guide and found a lot of good information about using Facebook. I added myself as a fan to the State Library of Kansas Facebook page. While I was fooling around I also ended up adding myself as fans to to the I Love Pizza John's/Derby Kansas and the Derby Panther Football Facebook pages. Pizza John's in Derby has the best thin crust pizza on the planet. As I am a graduate of Derby High School, have had several nephews that played for the Panthers over the years and have a niece who is currently a DSH cheerleader I was already a fan before Facebook was ever dreamed of. I think I became a fan of 23 Things Kansas but it doesn't show up on my FB page fan list even though I do show up in the fans list on the 23 Things Kansas FB page. I joined the 23 Things Kansas Ning. Here is a link to my page: Terry Hamblin . I joined the Kansas Library Association FB group.