Random Thoughts 15: Crystal Clear 2021 Edition
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Yup. I tee'd that one up and then we left the internet zone. I figured I'd see the responses when I returned. You guys did NOT disappoint. 
CF peeps are having a field day ripping on FB right now but there are a ton of local organizations that use it for sharing info. Not going to apologize for liking the local bird photography group, our local ISU Alumni Club, the Eloise Wildflower Sanctuary group, the WWII Photos group or me watching the Fagan museum folks video of cold starting their Hellcat earlier this morning out western Minnesota way.
Yes, We use it for advertising fund raisers. There are groups that you can join so you can share with your target audience.
I don’t have any of that but curt may have convinced me to get Instagram
Wife told me I’d like Twitter. I told her I don’t care what most of the people I know are randomly doing, why would i care about people i don’t even know. She didn’t find the logic or wisdom in that.
The question is, does the good that FB provides for some organizations outweigh the overall bad that it also promotes?
In all seriousness, the sudden loss of FB would be a huge hit to tons of small businesses, charities, organizations, etc. As toxic as FB can be, it does provide a relatively easy (and free) online presence for places that otherwise wouldn't have one.
I don't see much of the stuff that people complain the most about. Maybe my friends don't generate or share enough crap for the algorithms to suggest them and I am sure as heck not using FB to search them out. I was getting is a bunch of "suggested' groups or postings from what I think look to be phony veterans groups. Guessing me following a couple of WWII photo and museum groups kicked the algorithm in for those. WWII interest = veterans interest = must want to see more veteran and pro-cop groups! Kept selecting "block this group" and after a couple of weeks I stopped seeing any such as "suggested". I say "phony" veterans groups because they looked to be political right fronts for mostly posting smart ass meme stuff. Guessing if I had liked any I would have gotten harder core stuff coming my way.
Lady on wheel of fortune was cleaning house, had $21,500 and also had the million dollar wedge. Get to the final round, they land on the $5,000 wedge, so they add $1,000 to make it $6,000 per letter. All 3 contestants get a big amount, but the guy on the end solves the puzzle and wins with a total of $23,000. Goes to the bonus round and loses out in winning $100,000.
I'll never forget back when I was in college I was late for work because a woman was cleaning up on a puzzle and I just had to see how it would turn out. She just kept hitting huge dollar amounts ($5000 was the most on the wheel) and guessing letters. It was "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat". She got just about every letter on the puzzle but she must not have been a sports fan because she still had no idea what it was. She had an unheard of amount racked up and she lost it all.
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I hear a lot of people say FB etc. are still good for keeping up with distant family and friends etc. and I'm in the 'no news is good news' camp where I just hope the best and maybe we'll see one another some time.
Ran into an old high school classmate this past weekend and even though I don't have FB and hadn't seen him for 10-15 years we had very little to talk about and that's about how it goes 90% of the time.
The more I help my daughter, the less impressed I am with the Ivy school of business.
I had some difference of opinions with the Ag college, but nothing like Ivy. What they told us in visits and orientation is not what they are telling/guiding my daughter now. I can see how first generation students (which is what I was) struggle much more than others.
I had some difference of opinions with the Ag college, but nothing like Ivy. What they told us in visits and orientation is not what they are telling/guiding my daughter now. I can see how first generation students (which is what I was) struggle much more than others.
I obviously don’t know the issues you are having but I struggled with their career services. Since I wanted to go into aviation they wee not much help. Signed up for a mock interview once and the interviewer treated it like a real one and since I wasn’t interested in working for enterprise or whatever car rental company they had for management majors it lasted for all of five or ten minutes I think.
Sounds pretty similar. Their guidance is very poor. My daughter has her emphasis and has had a small internship in that area and will be more involved this upcoming summer with the same company in that field, but she has a random advisor (I sat in on her first video conference) and it was some poor direction. She was not prepped for career day in any way. My son had his resume looked over and had practice interviews before their career day his freshman year.
During that conference, she was told that she wouldn't have anything sorted out for the first year or two. Last night I was getting texts from my daughter saying that she had to have every class figured out for her degree and specify another major or minor by her appointment today or they would keep her locked out of registration. I had luckily wrote a detailed class schedule for her projected 3.5 years that she will be at ISU and she was able to use that for most of her stuff. Her advisor had already told her to just take electives If her exact class and time didn't work, no way I'm telling a freshman to burn electives that quickly. Get the stair stepping classes out of the way so there aren't any hang ups and then use the electives for the double major (which apparently is what most business majors do).
This is just some of the hang ups I've had with their guidance. Will stop my rant.
I've got it on DVR (told wifeypoo she couldn't delete -- sometimes I need a happy hour or two) so I'll have to check it (her) out. How old is she?
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