CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I had to do a short assignment on three issues associated with social media. And I found some of the different reports I found kinda interesting, so I thought I'd share them in case they were interesting to any of you. Of all the issues that are associated with social networking, these are the three that sprang to mind: Issue 1 - Privacy Recently, the advice given on one of the writing lists I subscribe was that writers using Facebook should lock down their friends lists in order to protect the networks of friends and their families. This was as a result of romance writers being targeted by someone with strict moral beliefs who disagreed with what they wrote about. This person used the writers' friends lists to target other writers. This is not an isolated incident. There are numerous cases of writers (and not just romance writers) being stalked. One article about readers stalking writers states that incidents of writers being stalked or harassed are becoming more...

I had a bit of trouble working out how to add the Facebook 'Like' button to the side of my Blogger page, so I figure I'm not the only one. Here's how I managed to add the Facebook 'Like' and 'Share' buttons to my Blogger blog. (These are the buttons on the right-hand side of the blog, not the one under each post.) Before you begin, you will need to log into your Facebook and Blogger accounts. If you do not have Facebook and Blogger accounts, you will need to sign up for them, and then log in.       Prepare to add the Facebook widget to Blogger a.        Go to your blog b.       Click on the ‘Template’ option in the left-hand side column. It is about two from the bottom.      Find the ‘Badges’ page on Facebook. a.        Go to your personal page, not your wall, by clicking on your name at the top right of your Facebook page. b.  ...

I was reading over a post from a game friend on FB. She was waking as I was getting ready to go to sleep. She was wondering what the day would bring while I was wondering if my soon-to-be-two-year-old would actually let me get some sleep. She made me think about all the hours I spend at the computer, and reminded me of a post another game-friend had put up the day before. That post was one of those clichéd attempts at a joke. It warned of the ‘worst FaceBook virus yet’. Apparently this one was the ASTC (A*s-Stuck-to-Chair) virus, where victims are so absorbed in their FB activities that their children starve, their house grows untidy and falls apart with neglect, and their pets become dangerously obese from never being walked. You know the sort of post I mean. Anyway, it got me thinking about all the time I spend in front of a computer screen, whether it’s playing games, writing, or reading what others have written, and I wondered how many good things there were in a day that...