It said I hadn’t written anything yet. It said I had no notes (you rotten socially impaired little bugger!)

Always the guilt trip. I swear, Facebook is as bad as the Catholic church. You don’t have pictures! You don’t have any friends! You should write something about yourself! You should write something here! You should write something there! You’re not doing it right! You aren’t playing any games! You’re not being social…

WHY DON’T YOU SHARE SOMETHING!!??

That’s me all over–socially unacceptable. Have been my whole life but that’s no reason for Facebook flapping the fact in my face all the time. I mean, I share interesting news stories on Facebook…now and then…sometimes anyway. And I shared a few videos…okay, not all that many, but I did share some. And I do log in…once in awhile…kind of…every couple of weeks at least and update my status…now and then…occasionally.

And I shared this post now didn’t I? So there, mister “people are now objects on a graph” Zuckerberg! I share…I SHARE!!*pant-pant-wheeze-cough*

But I don’t feel guilty.

In 2006, 28 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 and young adults ages 18 to 29 were bloggers, according to survey results released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. By the fall of 2009, however, these numbers dropped to 14 percent of teens and 15 percent of young adults. During the same period, the percentage of online adults over 30 who are blogging rose from 7 percent in 2006 to 11 percent in 2009.

See? Us old(er) folks are gaining while the younger crowd head elsewhere. According to the article, that “elsewhere” is Facebook and MySpace but they don’t seem to care for Twitter. I have to give them some credit for that anyway.

You see, somewhere back in my distant blogging past I remember a plethora of complaints opinions from the older blogging crowd about the quality of the content written by the (much) younger crowd. Like the entire lack of it. I even remember some wishing they’d just go away.

Of course some of the older crowd has always been wishing they’d just go away since the very first child on this planet hit 13.

Now I’m not saying I was one of those who thought that bloggers who were in their teens and early twenties should just go away. I’m more of an equal blogging opportunity type of guy when it comes to things like that so I really didn’t have a problem with the (much) younger blogging crowd. As long as they stayed on Blogger it was fine with me.

Besides, I figured that if a youngster could manage to setup his/her own DYI WordPress blog then they deserved to be there quality content or no.

There were always exceptions to the rule of course but they were pretty much few and far between.

So there it is folks. The elders, who are often left behind in every other way shape and form these days (and the other days as well), are actually gaining on the younger set in the art of blogging. At this rate I figure we’ll have the house majority by 2012, yes?

Has everyone said everything there is to say?  Is everyone too wrapped up in trying to stay alive during ‘our current financial blip’?  Or have people just gotten bored with the whole business?

Or maybe all of the above?

Hell, you got me. I do sympathize with him or maybe empathise is a more appropriate word with the possible exception that he’s still writing just about everyday whereas I seem to be sitting here stuck in the proverbial rut. But, then again, I always seem to be stuck in a proverbial rut.

Aside from that I can definitely see where he’s coming from. The world we started blogging in 3 and some odd years ago is not the same world that we’re still stubbornly blogging away in now. Back when we started this adventure in blunderland bloggerland, Facebook was just peeking out of dorm windows and considering the prospects of moving off campus and Twitter was still a twinkle in Odeo’s eyes.

Now it’s all about tweets and twerps and live news feeds and how many times you can change your Facebook avatar in the space of 3 days. Is it just the furtherization (if that’s not a word, it should be) of the “Instant Gratification” mentality that’s over swept the globe like some modern day version of a mental black plague that makes the old fashioned blog too slow to bother with while the authors just wallow around in the muck of has-been-a-lity?

Or are we just burned out?

Could it be that it takes a rare individual to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous online instantaneous sociality while the rest of us get left on the battlefield of yesterday’s comment section? Lost in blogging purgatory, ever staring into the blank field of a “New post” page while the mind reels in the throes of bloggish apathy?

Oh, good grief, did I really that?

Okay, so who knows? Perhaps it’s just the calm before the next blogging storm yet to come. All I know is that it’s late and I haven’t had my cup of tea yet so I’ll see you all tomorrow. That is if I think of anything to say?

To get to the point, Facebook offers a way to import your blog into Facebook Notes. And anyone who has had a Facebook account more than a day probably knows what Notes are. In short, to accomplish this task involved clicking on the Notes tab and then in the top of the right hand sidebar on the Notes page you would find a section called Notes Settings. In this section was a link that would take you to another page where you could perform the absurdly easy task of importing your most recent blog posts into your notes. Easy, huh?

Well, not anymore.

Sure, it’s still an absurdly easy task to perform but just you try to find it now. And this is what this post is all about thanks to some urging from a dear friend of mine to whom I initially passed on this grand new adventure in Facebook navigation in a recent email.

To wit:

From your Facebook “Profile” page click on the Notes tab near the top of the page. Once your "Notes page loads up, click on the title of one of your notes in the top section of the sidebar: (Click images to embiggen)

This will take you to your “single post page (or note in this case). Now, look up above the title of your note and next to your Avatar you should see 3 links. Click on “My Notes”.

You’re almost there. When the next page loads up you’ll see that you’ve finally found that elusive “Notes Settings” section at the top of the the right hand sidebar. Click on the appropriate link in that section (“Import a blog” I believe) and I’m sure you’ll know what to do after that (the image below shows what the link looks like after you’ve imported your blog).

Now, importing your blog into Facebook, which is basically importing your feed plus a few fancy touches, is obviously not for everyone as it offers a chance for Facebook users not to go to your site in order to read and comment on your posts. Then again, not all your readers have Facebook accounts now do they? So it’s up to you to decide whether or not to take advantage of this feature. There’s no risk involved if you do import and decide later that it’s not for you. Just click on the “Edit import settings” as seen in the above image and it will take you to a very simple page that has but one option—“Stop importing”.

Of course you have to find it first.

A "massively co-ordinated" attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’

Now how do you like that one? An attack against a single blogger brings down Twitter, Live Journal and severely impairs Facebook for several hours. Makes me wonder what would happen if they (the hackers) actually got serious about things in future attacks.