This week Tom and guest co-host Jax Computer Chic’s Elizabeth Pampalone are joined by producer Sean Birch to congratulate Ray on his new child! Then they discuss what you can do if you’re being bullied on Facebook, play a round of our new tech and geek trivia segment “DOES NOT COMPUTE” and answer a question about saving photos from your iPhone. Are all of your photos being saved to your iCloud? Find out how you can make sure they are.
Remember, we are also prepping for the first Deemable Tech hour-long radio episode. Get your calls in at 1-888-972-9868 to “audition” for the show!
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TRANSCRIPT
TOM: From WJCT studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I’m Tom Braun, in for Ray Hollister,
ELIZABETH: I’m Elizabeth Pampalone, in for Tom Braun
TOM: and this is Deemable Tech. This week’s episode is brought to you by A Small Orange, Homegrown Hosting. A refreshingly different approach to web hosting. On the web at a small orange dot com.
ELIZABETH: Got a question about your computer, smart phone, tablet or the Internet? You can give us a call us at One Eight Eight Eight, Nine Seven Two, Nine Eight Six Eight, or send us an email at questions@deemable.com.
TOM: Well, as you can tell, Ray is not here again this week. Thankfully this time it’s not because he’s having an appendectomy like a few weeks ago. This time it’s actually because of something great: Ray and his wife just had their second child!
So congratulations to Ray! He’ll be back soon. And thank you Elizabeth for stepping in to help us out this week.
ELIZABETH: Happy to be here!
TOM: And also back again this week is our producer Sean Birch.
SEAN: Hello there!
TOM: And as we said on last week’s show, we’re changing things up a little bit here on the podcast. We realized that the people who listen to this and the people who listen to our segments on public radio aren’t necessarily the same.
We don’t have a specific plan just yet, but we do know that we won’t be spending as much time answering questions on the podcast. We’re still going to answer them, it just won’t be as many. Instead we’re going to try different things. And if you have suggestions for things you?d like to hear us try, let us know. Questions@deemable.com.
Before we dive into questions and other stuff, I got a call from a friend today with an interesting problem. Interesting to me, anyway, not so good for her.
She followed a page that had posted a story about a cat who had gotten lost and finally come home to its owners after six months. And she had posted a comment along the lines of “I don’t think it’s right to let cats outside.” Now that’s a statement that you can agree or disagree with, but she posted it in a really non-confrontational way. Just a statement of opinion.
But some people who she didn’t know who were not Facebook friends of hers started replying to this comment and saying really mean things. They were calling her names, saying she should be neutered, that she shouldn’t be allowed out of the house, etc. And she was getting notifications about these comments. So she called me in a real tizzy wanting to make the notifications stop.
Basically, this is Facebook bullying. What are some steps my friend could take to stop it?