Category: Facebook

Watch a Facebook Livestream

Some people may not know how to Watch a Facebook Livestream

I have been helping my parish through this Covid19 Pandemic get Masses out to parishioners. Some of the folks are challenged with how to watch a Facebook livestream, so I thought I would put together a how-to article and video.

Watch a Facebook Livestream

  1. Log-in to your Facebook. screenshot of Facebook video page How to watch a Facebook livestream
  2. Go to the page you want to watch, especially if they have posted a schedule like we have done at the parish.
  3. Scroll down the left-hand side until you see the word video.
  4. Look for any of the videos with a red box with white letters that say LIVE.
  5. Click on the video and you have joined the Facebook livestream!!

Watch the video here:

Get Notifications

If you follow any company or organization pages, you may want to get notified if they are live. Do the following:

    1. Log-in to your Facebook accountaccess settings for notificaitons
    2. Far right down arrow – click
    3. Find “Settings” – click
    4. Left column – Notifications – click
    5. Scroll down to Videos – click

video notification settings

Select how you want to be notified.

This way you should be able to get notified either on your Facebook account on your phone, by email or by text message that the livestream you want to watch is ready to go!

Happy watching. AND if you are looking for a great Catholic parish in the Elgin, IL area, I highly recommend St. Laurence Parish on the west side of town tucked back into a neighborhood.

 

 

WWYD – What Would You Do?

Knowing the answer to What Would You Do can be difficult

We all have opinions. Some are stronger than others; others, vocalize their opinions louder than others; and yet most, will never change their opinion no matter what the voice of reason/opposition has to say. Playing off the television show, I ask, what would you do?What would you do

Here is the situation:

Recently, I saw a post from a Facebook connection. It was a video and social commentary on a rather sensitive topic. What I saw in the video was a bit different than what the poster had expressed in the written comment. I began to write my response to the post about 5 different times. Eventually, I ended up not typing anything.

Each time I would start thinking I was taking a different tact, but ended up deleting the response because the written word and a post is forever. It is so much more difficult to know the tone and intent of a comment when written than when you are speaking directly to that person because you are able to see the non-verbal communication.

Because of an experience I had years ago on a chat board with trolls who posted to cause a disturbance, I am much more aware of “newbies”, or even someone who has been around a long time, could take the written word out of context and think an innocent comment is a personal attack.

Additionally, I didn’t think that my comment would be taken in the right context as I could be considered on the opposite side of that particular sensitive topic.

Here are some thoughts to help you figure out what you would do:

  1. Do what I did and let the moment pass. I didn’t feel so strongly about the issue that I felt I had to make the comment.
  2. Write your comment and let the “battle” begin. Once I posted a bad review in a “What’s happening in ((You name the town))”. My post garnered a great deal of responses and some were just nasty.
  3. Unfollow the person or shut them out of your feed. ( I have done this before, it can be kind of liberating.)
  4. Try to send a private message to the person with your opinion so as not to take it public.
  5. Make a phone call.

Remember, you will probably not change the opinion of the person to whom you are commenting, so is it worth the angst you might feel when the return comments are heated, pointed or vengeful. (I just had a thought that I wouldn’t be writing about this, if the item or the issue were positive, like beautiful flowers or gorgeous scenery.)

What else would you do?

Facebook New Feature – See First

Facebook has a new Feature – See First – have you set yours yet?

Just recently, Facebook decided to give us all the chance to control what we See First in our feeds. Before we had the option to set our feeds by “Most Recent” and “Top Stories”. It seemed to me that most of the time those options seemed to work alright on my desktop, but it was up for grabs what I would see on my Android phone.

Now, this new feature gives you the ability to select who or what you want to See First in your news feed. The challenge will be that if you set too many items in your See First choices, none of them will take priority. Be judicious with your choices, AND of course, add Time2Mrkt to one of your choices!

Here is a screen shot of where it appears on my Facebook page (of course I manage it). The following image is where I found the selection on a page that I like but do not administer. You may need to look around a bit to find the option depending upon the type of page you want to follow.

Facebook See First

Facebook See First Option 2

Facebook See First Option 2

Another Facebook Change

How will this Facebook Change impact your use of third party tools like Hootsuite?

This time the change isn’t directly on Facebook, but affects your use with third party sources like Hootsuite. Read this article Owly

What the article boils down to if you don’t have time to read it is:

  1. You will no longer be able to see your personal feed in the News Streams.
  2. Only group administrators will be able to post to groups from third party tools (of which Hootsuite is one.)

Most of the time this will not affect most people, but if you manage a number of platforms through a third party tool, this means that you won’t be able to use it to manage your personal Facebook. It doesn’t appear to be affecting company pages, YET!

One of the things that I love about Facebook is that almost everyone is using it. The thing that I hate about Facebook is that it is always changing. Sometimes not for the better. Sometimes I think they change just to change. Sometimes I think they change because they are trying to please their stockholders.

No matter the situation, if we want to play in their field, we have to learn to roll with the punches!!

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