Facebook® & Twitter® For Seniors For Dummies®

Chapter 13. Sharing (and Grabbing) Photos, Videos, and Music

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• Give Credit When You Share

• Make Your Links Short.

• Share Your Photos with Twitpic

• Become an Online Deejay (DJ)

• Spin Your Songs for Online Friends.

• Find and Share Videos on YouTube.

One of the most fun ways to share online, in both Twitter and Facebook, is to share your favorite music and images. We've talked about sharing your own photos on Facebook, but how about treating your online friends to some of the unique items you run across elsewhere on the Web? You could share a news story, a song, or a funny video — pretty much any cool thing you find!

I've spent many evenings online with friends, pointing from a song to a video to a story. It's the 21st century version of a coffee klatch; it's also like sharing a bottle of wine with friends (only you get to drink the entire bottle if you wish).

In this chapter, I give you some advice for mannerly and efficient sharing, go over some great places to find material to share, and tell you how to easily transport the treasures you find to your Facebook or Twitter page.

Give Credit When You Share

1. I want to talk a little about the conventions — or, better yet, the etiquette — for sharing what you find online. Odds are if you hijack someone's article or photo from somewhere on the Internet, that person may never know it — but you will. Good manners (believe it or not) are still in fashion, but they follow new rules. Please credit any Web site and the person behind the post when ...