I've joined a new social networking site

And I have very little clue how to work it. It's called Triberr. TWO Rs for those counting.

This was yesterday. I've barely looked around it, have no real idea what is involved, and have seemingly been locked out of the account.

For clarification, I don't blame Tribber. The developer emailed me a couple times to help me through this, but since I tried to log in at exactly the wrong time (during that one key second of the final install of an upgrade) it messed everything up.

I'm excited to start using Tribber, but will patiently wait for everything to be sorted out. I have every confidence it will happen shortly. But until then, I'll use twitter as I always have. Or have for the last month + I've been on Twitter.

Until then, if you want to know more, try here and here. One warning: There's a lot of white space between the top banner and the content. Don't know why, it took me a while to realize the page loaded correctly.

Social networking

I did it. Broke down and made a Twitter account. @kristabelreed for those looking. It's hard keeping up with blog, facebook, AND twitter, but the social networks have made it easier. They've connected each other, or made it possible to connect my networks. Whatever.

So my Twitter posts show up on my Facebook account, my Blog posts pop up on both Twitter and Facebook (I think...) Did I miss a connection? Probably but it doesn't matter, they're all everywhere. As far as I know.

Is this a good thing or a bad one? I can't tell, but I've met some great people on all three of these outlets, have found wonderful authors and their stories, and have made myself known. And isn't that the point of it all?

Blog Hop Day 10

Today's the final day of the hop. This has just proven what I've suspected all along-finding readers who will enjoy your stories is just as difficult as finding new authors. I hope you've all enjoyed your time here and won't be strangers, and I promise to keep you updated, entertained, and informed.

Granted, my information may be as simple as: Did you hear about that British study where people actually said they'd rather give up having a flushing toilet than Facebook? I mean seriously, people! Let's think about this for a moment (and I won't even go into the whole bit about other countries where it's impossible to find enough clean water to drink let alone bathe or flush a toilet with!)Here's the full list--what order would you put this in? I won't go through all of them but I can damn well tell you that a washing machine, vacuum cleaner, flushing toilet, fresh water, shower, fresh veggies, a/c, lightbulbs, and okay I admit it, chocolate, would come before ANY Facebook, email, google, internet connection or what have you. I do like the sunshine as #1.

1. Sunshine
2. Internet connection
3. Clean drinking water
4. Fridge
5. Facebook
6. NHS 
7. Cooker
8. Email
9. Flushing toilet
10. Mobile phone / smartphone
11. Tea and Coffee
12. Washing machine
13. Shower
14. Central heating
15. Painkillers 
16. Fresh vegetables 
17. Vacuum Cleaner
18. Kettle
19. Sofa 
20. Shoes
21. Fresh fruit
22. Google
23. Car 
24. Hair straighteners
25. Public transport
26. Laptop
27. Chocolate
28. DVD Player
29. Wristwatch
30. Make-up
31. Flat screen TV
32. Wedding ring
33. Tumble dryer
34. Bottled water
35. Ebay
36. Bicycle
37. Ipod
38. Air conditioning 
39. Disposable nappies
40. Light bulbs 
41. Spell-check
42. Sat Nav 
43. Push-up bra
44. Nintendo Wii 
45. iPad
46. Gym Membership
47. Season ticket to your football club 
48. Freezer
49. Xbox
50. Twitter

You're part: follow my blog and comment on each post to enter the daily drawing for a free download of one of my stories. (You must do both to enter, but following once is perfectly acceptable.)
My part: Post short fun little blogs for you to comment on and give away one free download, winner's choice, of any of my stories.

Want to follow along during the 10 Days of Giveaways? Find each blog stop here.

Facebook part 2

And now I feel really out of the loop. Last week a friend emailed me this article. It's about a 103 year old woman who uses facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. Once it got out that she was the oldest person on facebook, she received over 1000 friend requests.

If 103 year old woman who has seen everything from World War I to the invention of televisions, the first man on the moon, and the internet can facebook, then I should probably as well.

Does it count as peer pressure when she's several generations older than I am?

Ms Lowe is thought to have become the oldest person among Facebook's 500m users following the death of 104-year-old Ivy Bean, from Bradford, in July.

"I use it just for amusement really. I'm only a beginner. I do enjoy it, very much."

She said that someone her age would need "an active brain" to use the social network site.

The friends requests began pouring in when her activity on Facebook won widespread publicity.

She said she has heard of Twitter but does not know what it is.

She said: "We've had messages from all over the world. I'd like to say thank you very much".