Simply Saturday
Sometimes I am amazed by people that know so much about computers, the web, coding, etc… and again, I am amazed by the people that know nothing- or very little- about computers. I’m not talking about your grandmother not knowing computers… I’m talking about people my age.
There is so much out there that I wish I knew, yet I don’t have the time… or don’t even know where to begin the learning process. Most of my knowledge has come from trial and error - mostly error… and like I said in my last post… the upgrades made to my site probably could have been done in half the time it took me.
A college acquaintance of mine recently joined facebook- she sent me a friend request, which I accepted. She didn’t have a picture up yet… and sent me a message saying she was new to all this social networking- and had no idea how to upload pics or anything - but she would figure it all out eventually.
I am floored that after being out of college for over seven years… working in the real world… that she hasn’t had more computer experience! Am I nuts?! Am I expecting too much?
My category titles in Wordpress are gone. I’m not sure why. The categories are still listed, with the number of posts filed under each category… but there are no titles. I’m not sure how to fix this… then again, I don’t know that I care that they are gone. I could never come up with good titles for my categories anyway.
Since this seems to be turning into a post mostly about computers, I have another question.
Sometimes when you do a search (google or otherwise) on someone you know, or knew from your past… you get tons of results. Some will lead you to the person you’re looking for… and some are just people with the same name.
Of course, most women change their names when they get married… so that always presents some difficulty in a search (unless you know who they married). It’s always easier when the person has a unique name, or a unique spelling of their name - generally you can find them pretty easily.
My name doesn’t provide anything exciting in the way of a search, but there are results for my name. But there are some people I’ve searched for - and there isn’t a single hit for their name. So that makes me wonder… are they computer-challenged… or have they just taken extreme care to be sure their name isn’t lurking out there on the web? I just don’t understand how you can just not exist, basically.
I’ll close with a reply to a comment I received:
Nicole - Love the new layout!! You need to start posting more!!
Here’s your challenge, Nicole - have a new post up on your site by July 30 - which will be your two-month anniversary of not posting. 
July 27th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I do take “extreme” care…ok, maybe not extreme, but I’m cautious to watch what I put out there under my real name. With this new computer age and everybody Googling everybody, I keep reading over and over how prospective employers are looking up job candidates online to see if there’s any negative information on them that could affect their job performance. While there’s nothing negative out there about me (I’m an ANGEL), I still don’t want them snooping around in my personal life and stuff. They have no business on my Myspace or reading my blog…which I’m sure has been inactive longer than 2 months! That’s why I use a username most times when I set stuff up like that. I don’t mind putting myself out there, but I don’t want a boss of mine knowing all my stuff. Make any sense?
July 27th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
*sigh*. but there it goes. i just googled myself, and where i’d typed my name IN one of my blogs, it alllllllllllll now comes up. must go fix that…
July 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
HAHA thanks for calling me out. I really don’t have much to write about. My life seems so boring. I will post soon! Maybe before July 30 if you are lucky.