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Monday, July 29, 2013

Explaining: How to Make People Disappear... From Facebook


Dad,
You recently complained to me that us “Young Kids” should get off of Facebook and go somewhere else. “I don’t care what it was founded for, it’s for sharing recipes and grandkid pictures now!”
Well, I don’t want to disagree with you. I’m not the biggest Facebook fan in the world, but, I think you know as well as I do that there are certain familial social obligations involved in Facebooking.
Fortunately, there is a solution that will solve your non-recipe problems.
Let me explain.
Let’s say you have a friend on Facebook that only posts random crap that you don’t care about.
It could be me, it could be someone else. I don’t care.
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You don’t want to unfriend that person because it might cause all kinds of social drama that you don’t want to deal with. Like, if you unfriend me, I’ll tell everyone I meet for the rest of my life I was abandoned by my father.
So, you hide their posts!
Just hover your mouse over the upper-right corner of their post, and click on the little arrow that pops up.
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Then, click on the words, “I don’t want to see this”
That will give you these options:
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Just click where it says “Hide all posts from _____________” and you’ll never see them in your timeline again!
Click the little “X” in the upper-right corner, and it all goes away.

That’s really all there is to it. You’ll never have to read another annoying rant about why pizza rolls are the greatest food of all time, and no one is the wiser when it comes time to rant about who’s a jerk on the internet during a family reunion.
Later,
Matt

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Explaining: Explaining Things to My Dad

 

Hi Dad.

Look, you’ve been telling me for years that I need to create a website where I can explain internet stuff or show you cool websites to visit. Since I couldn’t sleep all night, I decided I might as well go ahead and set that up.

You might notice that I set this up as a blogger site instead of hosting it myself.

There were a couple of reasons for that, actually.

1) Blogger is Free

Since, as you know, I’m an unemployed bum mooching off of you and mom at the moment, I felt it would seem ungrateful to spend even the $15 or so it would take to set up a self-hosted website with a fancy URL. Maybe in the future, after I get a job making all the money, I will host this site on its own, if that’ll make you happy.

2) Blogger works with Windows Live Writer

I think I’ve explained to you that I use Windows Live Writer to do the bulk of my online writing before. It’s a pretty great program, and I’ll probably write you a post explaining why it’s worth downloading at some point. One of the great things about it is that it connects pretty seamlessly to Blogger and Wordpress.Com.

 

You’re probably wondering why I am directly writing to you instead of writing a generalized blog.

Well, that’s pretty simple, a twitter friend of mine told me that it would probably be cute and funny if I wrote a website explaining things directed straight at you. I didn’t have any way of disagreeing with her, so I decided to give it a shot, for now at least.

Anyway, I’ll try to keep this site as up-to-date as possible. If you, or anyone else you know, wants me to explain something, just let me know.

I’m here for you.

Your Son,

Matt