Facebook ... OK, I gave in.

[pyan]

Originally Posted by Boneman

I had a personal facebook, which I shut down due to the incessant bombarding of emails I got from people I didn't even know. And has the row about the cookies been resolved? Apparently, if you click on 'like this' or 'share this' Facebook can track which websites you go on, even after you've logged out, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.

Ditto, ditto, and that concerned me as well. When I see the group I work with going on about FB, I sometimes think I'm missing out, but I'm glad it's not just me who had this experience.

[J-WO]

I was set against it for years, then I got frogmarched into by Clarion (in which it's borderline mandatory). However, I don't regret it as its let me keep up with old pals I haven't seen in ages.

I'll be sure to check your author's page. Feel free to befrienderize me or not. Also, Nina Kiriki Hoffman often hangs around FB.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thanks to your timely warning, Boneman, I am making it a point not to "Like" or "Share" anything.

It would go against my online persona to go around appreciating things anyway.

Jim, you do not seem to exist on Facebook, or I would certainly befriend you. Which of your many aliases, oh man of mystery, are you using there?

[J-WO]

James worrad... I think...

[Teresa Edgerton]

Nope, tried that the first time. I have now exhausted all the variations on your name that I can think of. It looks like you are going to have to befriend me.

[Connavar]

Really FB is chat gimmick if you dont use only to keep track of family, old friends. I never write status update.

I only check in to see when my Uni classmates, friends invite for parties, a drink, a meeting. My regular friends i rather call, sms and meet offline.

I got FB late 2010 because Uni friends almost forced me to be like everyone else.

[rune]

I use facebook to keep in touch with distant friends, its a good way to see their photos too of hols etc

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm finding a lot of people I somehow lost touch with over the last ten years. People I really liked. People who, I think, really liked me. But the community that that kept us all together disappeared, and though attempts were made to reconstruct it they never quite took hold.

So it's wonderful to have a new way of keeping in touch with them. (I might also mention this place a few times and see if I can lure some of them over here.)

But in the meantime, those of you here who have a Facebook account, even if it's lying dormant, you could do worse than take a look at my author page there. I'll giving away free books as prizes every week or two for a while. (I have quite a stash of author's copies of some of my titles, so why not send them out into the world to be read and appreciated?).

The first one is The Queen's Necklace, but you only have until October 16 to enter your name for the drawing.

There will also be photos from the production of my Hidden Stars video, including a lot of shots of people being silly, and whatever else amusing I can think of to add.

And contests for free books. Did I mention that?

[alchemist]

I've "liked" the page, but where are the free books?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Did you click on the page that says "Teresa Edgerton Author"? I have a personal page and an author page, and if you search my name, both will turn up. If you did, the contest for this week's book is about halfway down the page.

Oh, and the post detailing the contest is just below the description of the book.

[Teresa Edgerton]

I mean just below the picture of the book.

I see that there are a lot of Teresa Edgertons on Facebook. I'm the one in the hat, but that's my personal page. For the Author's page, the picture was taken about 20 years ago, so if you are looking for someone who looks sixty, you're not going to find me.

The picture on my personal page was taken less than ten years ago, but it is by far the most flattering picture that came out of that session.

I usually avoid cameras like the plague, so there aren't many pictures to choose from.
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[Teresa Edgerton]

And the picture on my author page is in sepia.

[J-WO]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

Nope, tried that the first time. I have now exhausted all the variations on your name that I can think of. It looks like you are going to have to befriend me.

Hmm... that is mightily peculiar. I think something must be going on with my account, because when I share stuff or link to my blog, say, it only puts it on my profile thingy and not my main wall. Most annoying.

I've been to both your pages and I can't see a +1 friend button at the top right. Yet again, I'm wondering if this is a problem with my account and not yours.

(I enjoyed the guys in red robes however!)

[Mouse]

Found J-WO.

Also liked Teresa's author page.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thanks, Mouse. Both for the compliment and for providing the link to Jim's page.

Jim, I have sent a notice to you asking won't you be my friend. I guess we'll have to wait and see if it arrives.