Lost in Cyberspace

Those of you who know me realize I'm a cyberspace case. I struggle with all things techie, even the remote control. I joined Twitter a year ago and just this week learned about making lists when I read Amber West's blog post You've Got Questions - Everything Twitter.

In the comments section of Amber's post, Renee A. Schuls-Jacobson recommended we also check out this link to Nina Badzin's five-part blog series about Twitter.

I learned some Twitter etiquette, how to make lists, and how to do a proper @ reply retweet. I had no idea a period should go in front of the @ for certain replies retweets. Either a word or a period @ should be used at the beginning of a retweet. Did you know about that? Thank you, Amber, Renee, and Nina, for helping me find my way around the Twitterverse. I've always struggled with it.

(NOTE: Nina Badzin left a comment regarding the above paragraph, which I got wrong. It's RETWEETS, not REPLIES that this info applies to. I'm glad she caught that, so I changed it.)

Guess I need to tighten my cyberspace seatbelt cause I'm constantly heading out into foreign territory.
Running into unfamiliar terrain is an ongoing experience when dealing with the internet and technology. This is how I feel:

Lost in Cyberspace

I'm wearing my Funny Bones getup in this.
I played around with iMovie's special effects options
(which I just discovered last month), and this is what I ended up with.
My oldest daughter said I look like a Muppet!
YouTube clip - 47 seconds long

Are any of you old enough to remember the television show Lost in Space? It was pretty cheesy but I was a big fan of it when I was a kid! It was on CBS from 1965 through 1968.

Danger Will Robinson - Lost in Space

YouTube clip - 31 seconds

There was no such thing as cyberspace way back then!

Amber West (A Day Without Sushi) is now accepting questions about Twitter and other social media things in her new series, You've Got Questions. Feel free to ask her about anything you need help with. The links listed above are definitely worth checking out. 

So, how about you? Do you ever feel like a cyberspace case, or is it a cinch for you?

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