Facebook® & Twitter® For Seniors For Dummies®

Chapter 4. Speaking the Social Networking Language

Get ready to ...

• Gather on Facebook

• Communicate through Twitter

• Find a Spot on MySpace

• Get Connected on LinkedIn.

• See It All on YouTube

• Have Your Say on BlogSpot

• Share Photos on Flickr

• Stream Music on Pandora.

• Watch TV and Movies on Hulu.

You probably suspect that the online social network includes a whole lot more than Twitter and Facebook. And you're right! I suspect that once you get involved on the Web, you're going to want to spread your wings and take off to some other fun venues.

There are quite a few more sites (other than Facebook and Twitter) where you might want to participate with your friends. In this chapter, I give you a very quick overview of the most fun sites I've found in the interwebs, or world-wide webbytubes — both terms are slang for the Internet. Just to keep you up on what the cool kids say and where they hang.

So, in no special order ....

Gather on Facebook

Since a large section of this book is about Facebook, I won't go into a lot of detail, but know that the site (as of this writing) gets 124.1 million visitors per month according to Quantcast. That's a lot of people. You never know who is going to show up on the pages.

Facebook is a place where you can find your family (I just connected with distant relatives across the country), new people with common hobbies and ideas, as well as old school chums. Best of all? You can view old friends' photos and see how they aged over the years. Since anyone over the age of 13 with ...