Social Media Update

In November of 2010, I started to put all of my weather information from my personal page onto a fan page known as “Storm Spotter Remington Crowder.” Then in August 2011, I had announced that I was going to stop posting on that page and repost on a new page known as “Remington Crowder.” Now I am announcing that I am going to post all of my weather information, again, onto my personal page. The choice was easy to make. Today, Facebook is now allowing people to have a subscribe button to a profile. With most well-known people no longer making fan pages and just having a subscribe button, it will be easier for people to see everything. I hope that made scene. The one thing I do like about the subscribe feature now on Facebook is I do not have to see your statues updates. Before, if you wanted to see my weather information, you had to become my friend before having the fan page. Now, you can subscribe to me. You will get my updates, but I will now see yours. In many cases, many of you most likely do not want me to see your updates and that is a good thing.

Besides Facebook, I have been using Twitter for to post my weather updates. Bad news is, I can only post a max of 140 charterers. Meaning, I have to keep everything short and to the point. I still will be using my Twitter account, but I will try to use it more often. So at times, I will be asking you to be getting my updates on Twitter only. In many cases, it will be faster and easier.

I do have a Google+ page. Bad news is I do not use it enough. As a matter of fact, I am hardly ever on it. Not because I do not like, but because when I use it on dial-up internet, it takes forever to post something. Whenever I am near high speed internet, I do post on there. I do hope that once I get back to school in Mid-August, I will be posting on there even more. Just about anything I will post on Facebook and Twitter, I will be posting on Google+. I will say this, I do wish that Google+ was a little more fitting better for computer screens. To me, just about everything looks big on there and takes up just too much room.

My blog site, remingtoncrowder.blogspot.com, is going to be the best site to get my weather forecast and updates. While Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are good for getting information out fast, they are not good enough. With Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, you are limited to their resources. With my blog site, on the other hand, I can add more, but I can only add so much. I do hope to just down right turn the blog into a working website over the next few years for everyone to use. My goal is to add interactive radar, live real-time weather conditions, and so on. Because I am new to the whole world of blogging, I am going to be messing around a few times with what the blog will look like and how everything will look like in the text. Not everyone is going to know when I have updated the blog. Therefore, I have a feed system that will post the new blog entry on Facebook, Google+, and soon to Twitter.

Now a note about when I will be posting my forecast. I hate being on dial-up internet right now. Living at home during the summer with slow internet is something that every weather forecast hates. We are trying to get high speed internet, but only time will tell. Once I get back to school, I will have free high-speed internet and I will be posting everything faster, better, and maybe my forecasts will be better than right now. Also, I am now posting my forecast Monday thru Friday. Starting August 20^th, I will be posting my forecast in the morning and try to give an update in the afternoon or evening.