Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Technoloy Lesson: Mass Like Deletion

Last week we deleted our interests. Let's clear those last Likes, too. Repeating last week's early steps:

To start, turn on your computer, log in if necessary, connect to the Internet (if necessary), launch your browser, and log in to Facebook.


Go to your page. (As a reminder: click your name in the left column of your newsfeed.)

Click LIKES in the row under your name, or scroll down to your Likes and click SEE ALL.

Scroll past your interests, until you see LIKES:


Hover your mouse over the page you want to unlike.

 

Now, hover you mouse over the word LIKED.


Click UNLIKE.


The page WILL NOT immediately disappear, even though you have unliked it. This is less satisfying than last week's lesson, am I right?

Previously:
Facebook lessons


Happy Birthday, Dad!!



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Technology Lesson: Unliking Your Interests On Facebook (Part 2: Many Interests At Once)

Last week I showed you how to Unlike a single page. Today you'll cull all of that crap in your profile at one time.

To start, turn on your computer, log in if necessary, connect to the Internet (if necessary), launch your browser, and log in to Facebook.


Go to your page. (As a reminder: click your name in the left column of your newsfeed.)

Click LIKES in the row under your name, or scroll down to your Likes and click SEE ALL.


Click EDIT, located to the right of your interests, which are likely displayed in a graphic form.

All of your interests will be available for editing:



Hover your mouse over the interest you want to delete. You'll see a small blue "X." Click it.

The image will disappear immediately.

Click DONE EDITING when you're done!


Next, we'll clear out all of those extraneous Likes!

Previously:
Facebook lessons

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Technology Lesson: Unliking On Facebook (Part 1: One Page At A Time)

Sometimes we like things on Facebook, for a promotion, or a friend's sake, and we want to unlike the business, idea, or sports team. This is easy to do, and there are a few fast ways to take care of it. Today we'll unlike one individual page. Later, we'll take care of many pages/interests.

To start: Turn on your computer, log in if necessary, open your browser, and log in to Facebook.

If you want to unlike one page, go to that page on Facebook. The fastest way to do this is to type the name of the page in your search bar:

 

Go to the page.


Under the banner, you'll see a button that says LIKED. Click the button.

Now click UNLIKE.


PRESTO! You'll see the button now says LIKE with a thumbs up next to it. This is an indication that you were successful.



Previously:
Facebook lessons

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Vocabulary Lesson: Derpy

Derp is a stupid word, and I don't like it. It's used a lot in pop culture, and proliferates online, so I feel obligated to define and explain it.

Sigh.

"Derp" is a word used to explain disgust with someone's alleged stupidity or ignorance or to signify one's own behavior in the same vein.

Know Your Meme explains, "Derp is an expression sometimes used online to signify stupidity, much like the earlier forms of 'duh' and 'dur.'"

My generation is fond of it. We used to say, "Uh, doy!" when we were kids and then thump our chest, to mime the mentally handicapped. Derp has the same connotation. Sometimes the phrase is elongated to "herp a derp."

The word has made its way into Saturday morning cartoons. When an animation error made a pony on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic "wall-eyed" the show's (notorious) adult, Internet-savvy, fans named the pony "Derpy." The pony is now a main character... and named Derpy Hooves.

Man, people are going to be mad about this one.

Additional Resources:
Derp, Urban Dictionary
Derp, Know Your Meme
Derpy, My Little Pony wikia