This week: The Newsfeed – Fun Times Edited by: Lornda  
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When the real life beckons, it’s hard to stay updated with the posts on the newsfeed. How dare daily life interrupt what’s happening at WdC? Missing one day can cause a withdrawal of epic portions especially when the newsfeed notifications are in the double-digits – and this number is only what your fans have posted.
Not everyone will fall into a newsfeed coma and ignore the notifications. A lot of us go beyond what our fans have posted and click on the personal feed which can add pages of scrolling if you have not logged in for a few days. To solve this issue, it means you should log in on a daily basis and check it a couple times a day. If not, the newsfeed coma will take you down and you will never surface again.
It's great to read what’s happening with authors. There are many posts on what we do best – write. It’s impressive to watch our fan’s writing journey, and the best part? Some have been published!
The newsfeed blows up the most when the first week of September rolls around to celebrate Writing.Com’s inception. There are surprises for us to enjoy and many activities to participate in. In fact, there are so many that it should run all month. It’s fun to see how people advertise their item to draw us in to play and have fun.
Another newsfeed standout is when something funny is posted. Sometimes a gif is included as a response to someone’s question, and it’s hilarious. If someone posts a contest or an activity, it’s fun to include a gif to draw people in to open the item. Gifs are not for everyone, but they’re a free way to grab someone’s attention in a fun way.
Prior to posting your blog entries on the newsfeed, consider humor to write a snappy title. Not everything will warrant the humor especially when life takes a negative turn, but if you have something fun to announce, consider a humorous title.
If you post any news, or maybe you’re are a full-time lurker , remember the newsfeed is the pulse of Writing.Com, so check those notifications out promptly to avoid scrolling yourself into a coma!
 Happy 25th WdC! Enjoy the party.
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 Information about how to garnish Fans found here: "Fans Tab" & "My Favorites and Fans"
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 What do you post on the newsfeed? How many times to you check it, and do you find something to make you smile/laugh?
 Feedback from my last newsletter, "Revisiting the Dark Ages" :
Charles's Cauldron 🎃  : "I'm turning 27 and I will admit, I've never used a map. I didn't get my first smartphone until I was 18. When I was 16 and got my license and needed directions, I would just go online to Google Maps on my computer and print the directions. Could I figure out a map if I tried? Maybe. I've definitely gotten lost before when my phone died.
I know I'm young, but my first real "Oh my god, I'm getting old" moment was actually yesterday at work. I was chatting with a couple of my 18 year old coworkers when they both told me they don't know how to tell time on an analog clock. Blew my mind. They said they can read it if they try but it takes them a long time to figure it out and that it's easier to just pull out their phone and look."
Lol! Thanks for sending in your 'getting old' moment. It's hilarious. 
Beholden  Thank you very much for including my short story, Caliban's Decision, in your Editor's Picks section.
You're welcome! 
 Comments from the Newsfeed. Thanks!
S🤦♂️ : "Reel to reel tapes.
I still have one and some reels, but it just looked so cool.
I remember landlines being the only phones. My girlfriend when I was 16 took the phone into her room and hid under the quilt to talk to me for a few hours. Her father got up top go to the toilet and, apparently, saw the phone missing. he followed the cord until he got to her room, then hung up on our conversation by unplugging it from the wall.
I was not welcome for a few weeks at their house after that...
Nowadays, with mobile phones, that sort of little bit of teenaged romance just down not happen.
Kids today don't know the joy of sharing one phone with an entire family..."
Jay O'Toole  : "Rotary-dial phones with 50 to 100 foot cords were a real gift. It forced people to stay in one location, talking to one person, completing one conversation. As it is, when I’m at work, people walk up and down the aisles, talking loudly on their cell phones, and I’m consistently prompted to ask, “May I help you?” That’s when I realize, that person is staring off into space, talking to the ether, often not aware, that I’m there."
Mousethyme : "Cassette tapes and walkmans. I remember sitting in the backseat of the car with my headphones on and my little bag of tapes in my lap.
Another cassette memory is listening to Top 40 Countdown to record my favorite songs."
Glenny  : "I remember when I was younger using the telephone in the red box. When I didn't have money I would yell into the hearing side and it always worked.
It was useful when i was late coming home for dinner, I just had to pick up the phone say I'm on my way and all was forgiven."
PNGravebound- 📓  : "These comments are all stepping stones down memory lane for me! Thank you, all!
I owned a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a super-8 movie camera & projector, a stereo with record player and 8-track player, and several phones which were each about the size of a sleeping cat and which lay on a table/desk just like a sleeping cat.
It is the 'cat' phones that I miss most. To me, they represent a more civilized, respectful, and friendly world. Plus, I love actual cats. The very best feature of 'cat' phones was the way they, too, waited at home. When we go into a restaurant to eat, we leave our cellphone (at times when we have one) in our vehicle, but not everyone does so. I don't want our phone to interrupt our meal or anyone else's.
I could discourse on the great inventions of the past and pitfalls of 'modern technology' until sunrise next Groundhog Day, but most of my family and friends already think I'm a museum piece."
jackson : "When I was visiting my daughter, she got angry because she went outside, and thinking I was coming out behind her, she didnt close the door. Flies came in . . . when she mentioned it, being as there were quite a few flies already inside before she went out, I replied, " I thought you were letting them out.' "
TheBusmanPoet : "I remember the party lines but the ones I remember is that you had all kinds of teens screaming telephone numbers and if you got lucky, you could figure one out. Then you call and take it from there. I landed up dating 3 teens at the time from the party lines. It was absolutely hilarious and pretty cool."
Friendly Neighborhood Derg : "Old fashioned malts from malt shops. "
Kotaro : "In Japan, during the heydays of Space Invaders and PAC Man every table at coffee shops had game machines. Now, the only thing they have is coffee."
keyisfake : "I miss the dumbwaiter, multi-functional appliances, a phone desk, landlines, playing outside, and the block of mothers watching each other's children. This was back in the 70s so most wouldn't know what I'm talking about."
Rick Dean - Dinosaur : "I miss albums. Doesn't matter if it's records, tapes, or CDs. It was something tangible that you could hold and read. I got exposed to a lot of great art because it became an album cover. Music became a community. People bonded over it and you gravitated towards people who shared similar taste.
Nowadays there's more variety than ever before and the barriers to entry are torn down, yet there's less demand, which means less budget to make music, which means less quality music. An artist can't take a year to write great songs and revise them over and over until they measure up. They'll starve. Likewise, they can't go into a studio and take their time and explore all the sounds available to them. That costs money that they'll never recoup.
So yeah, we have more varieties of mediocre than ever before and if you want to do it you don't need to make compromises with a business in order to gain access. But all of that came at a cost. There's no "great" anymore. The two go hand in hand. There's no emotional connection with a computer file and the music it unleashes isn't as good anymore."
Cizon : "A letter from a friend, Christmas/Holiday Cards, old-fashion correspondence. The fast pace of texts, emails, and FaceTime have eliminated the anticipation of catching up with friends and family."
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