My internet time is very limited and I’m not interested in joining the social media sites except for Pinterest. Unfortunately I now have a social media headache.
Life’s Rules Plotline
Stephanie Taylor, the main character, is estranged from her children. She would like to reconnect, but doesn’t know how.
Somehow I ended up with her finding their Facebook pages to find out more about her children’s lives and her grandchildren, the ones she’s only seen at Christmas for years. This is plausible as far as I know. I’ve heard many people say they keep up with their families through Facebook.
However, I am not on Facebook and do not wish to join. This is the basis of my social media headache.
Research
I vaguely remember I could visit Facebook pages, just look at them, by typing in the address or doing a search for the person. This works for the library Facebook page. It worked for a cousin with a business.
The big difficulty is the time it takes to blunder along trying to do this. The next step seems to be to ask someone with a Facebook page more about it.
That leaves me back with my social media headache. Whom do I know who would be willing to do this?
In the Meantime
After November, I tend to goof off for a week or two. I opened up my ebook revision for the Pumpkin Project.
This takes me to a different set of headaches. The print file is huge, over 96 MB. It needs to come down to under 25 MB.
So far my line of attack is to resize all photographs, some of which are very difficult to find after many years. I’m also removing page breaks, page numbers, tabs, section breaks and extra spaces.
It is working a little. I’m down 10 MB. There are still 140 pages to go to keep me occupied while I solve my social media headache so I can complete Life’s Rules.
