If you are on Facebook then I am sure you have seen Facebook walls that are still active of friends or even family members who have passed away.
Facebook has an option to turn the page into a memorial for the deceased.
Go to this link and fill out the required information and supporting page showing an obituary so they can close out the page in a respectful way.
Who says you can’t get the attention of corporations when you have a less than stellar customer service experience?
Above is a response to my displeasure with Rite-Aid on Twitter. In January I switched to them to get prescriptions because Walgreens and my insurance company didn’t see eye to eye on charges.
I hated the experience. The Rite-Aid in the Churchland section of Portsmouth was horrible. The pharmacy staff appeared to be a disorganized mess. The store hours were not accommodating for my schedule.
The final straw was two weeks ago. I was told on a Monday they were out of one of my prescriptions. They gave me enough to last a few days and promised they would have my prescription ready the next day.
They didn’t. They were very unprofessional and I had to drive two miles down the road to another store to get my medicine. What should have taken 10 minutes took an hour.
So I was very happy to learn Walgreens was accepting my insurance again. It will be nice to have a 24 hour store to pick up meds. The Rite-Aid closed at 8. You’d think they would close at 9. With their service I guess I know why.
So when you have issues with big companies do what I did. I went on Twitter and I blasted them. Since I included their Twitter name, they saw my message. As did my 2000+ followers.
This useless privacy notice is starting to appear all over my Facebook wall today.
Which is another reason I’m starting to not visit Facebook so much anymore. I think if someone posted a notice that if you place a plastic bag over your head you will no longer suffer migraine headaches that people will do it.
I’m starting to like Google Plus more and more!
I have a friend in the social media world that tweets so much she even does this while flying down the interstate.
I’ve taken pics on the road and have tweeted or updated Facebook but not often. Especially if I’m going 65 to 70 on the interstate.
Is it worth your life and the lives of others on the highway to tweet worthless bullshit? Like I could really care that you just shot snot all over your windshield. No, that’s not what she tweeted but do you get the idea?
Even with the iPhone, to snap a photograph and then to send it to Twitter & Facebook while driving is no small task. It’s enough to cause a serious distraction on the highway.
Social media people, like everything in life, need to learn to use common sense. Something I wish this person would show more of.
To be fair, I have recorded videos while driving but most times I had something holding the camera for me and the video is uploaded to the world later.
I have had this phone now for almost a year. I was thinking how this phone has really changed how I communicate and use the web compared to a year ago.
I find myself using the phone more for content than an actual computer. I use Twitter and Brightkite for most of my social media communications. I also do a majority of my blogging from the phone like I am doing now with the WordPress iPhone app. It’s easy for me to type on the phone compared to small keys like a Blackberry. Now ibwish I could do better blog layouts on the phone like a desktop. I use Live Writer on my main machine. That let’s me sprinkle pictures throughout my oh posts. On the phone my pictures will appear at the bottom of my posts. I am hoping that some inventive programmer will devise a way for me to do that on the fly.
Most evenings after I come home from work I don’t turn on my computer but I am not out of touch.
I receive my work emails as well as Gmail and yahoo mail directly on my phone.
Recently I was at a restaurant in Virginia Beach with friends. They had a sewage leak while we were eating. I was able to snap pics and post to Twitter warning people of my experiences as well as go to Urbanspoon app and write a quick review of my negative experiences while everything was still fresh in my mind.
I also use the Mint.com app for tracking my personal finances on the go.
Found myself taking a photo of an unusual experience in another restaurant. I took the photo but wanted to crop out other people. I quickly searched for a cropping tool in the Appstore. Found what I needed, installed and did the edit in under 5 minutes.
The web browser on the iPhone by far is very enjoyable when you are not at a computer. Granted, there are times the bigger display makes the net more enjoyable. However, when you are not able to be in front of a machine it works very well. Now if the phone could only provide Flash support, we’d be all set.
The phone hasn’t been without it’s share of issues. You would have thought the bright minds at Apple would have included cut and paste. I can’t tell you how much of a pain it was not having it. Now that it is here I wonder why it took so long to have a native smartphone function. The only other phone gripe I have is the inability to store extensions, etc in phone book.
It would also be nice if the phone could roam on CDMA networks. I was in North Carolina a few months ago. I was in a very rural part of the state and was without phone service for about 20 minutes.
Now I am going to save this blog post on WordPress.com and I am going to have it post at 8:00 am. If I hadn’t told you, you’d have thought I’d just typed the post.
Gotta love the phone. Now if the service was cheaper…
