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Yay - Made it through the wormhole! (Original Post)
Ruby the Liberal
Dec 2011
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nenagh
(1,925 posts)1. That's exactly what it feels like...
shraby
(21,946 posts)2. I went away for a little bit and
when I came back it was to here.
Beartracks
(14,591 posts)3. .neercs ym no sdrawkcab si gnihtyreve ,drieW
And the polarity is reversed!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)4. My toilet is flushing the wrong direction
and the Magnetic North is now off by .0000003 degrees.
The mayans were right. Skinner opened the portal. Eep!
Beartracks
(14,591 posts)5. This is what I see out my window. Should I be worried?

Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)8. Me? I'd be closing the blinds and going back to bed.
Heh.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)15. Not unless you see a glowing crystal embedded in the palm of your hand. n/t
dixiegrrrrl
(60,160 posts)10. Try standing on your head, that should fix it.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)6. Doubling up on my anxiety meds.
This is gonna take some getting used to...sort of like a new hairdo.
editted because I'd originally said "nt" but then went on and said more. The whole thing is scaring me.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)9. You can't break anything
So play away! It will be second nature in no time.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)11. You're so sweet. Will you hold my hand?nt
Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)12. Sure. :)
I have been playing around over here since Tuesday and haven't messed anything up!
Anything you want help with, just ask.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)13. How does the Facebook thing work?
I'm afraid to use it until I understand better. I'd hate to screw up my Facebook stuff.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)14. You would have to start with FB!?
Laughing because I don't have FB so haven't played with the interface, but there is a 100+ long thread in the Meta Questions section with people posting about privacy concerns. I don't begin to follow it as I am not a FB user, but can tell you how the system is set up if that helps!
How these buttons to Twitter, Google+ and Facebook are supposed to work, is that you are logged in here and logged in there at the same time (to make a connection). If there is a thread that you want to link to your Facebook page to share with people, you click the Facebook link here at DU and it is supposed to send it over there. Noting that it will send a link to the thread here you linked from, not an article in the thread (the news sites have a FB link for their articles seperately).
The only caution I would have in using it is that your FB people may be able to figure out your DU user name if you post enough stuff that you are commenting on here (at first, it will just look like a link to a DU thread, but after enough of them, people may make a connection), so if you have concerns about keeping your DU and your FB lives separate, you may want to be careful with that one.
As best I can tell, the privacy concerns are (i) people's DU IDs being outed in their FB accounts and (ii) FB tracking you everywhere you go on the web if you don't log out of their software, but that second one isn't a DU problem - it is a FB one. You will need to be logged in both here and there for the connection to work.
Given that it is late at night now (1:30 my time anyway), now would be a good time to test it out to see if you like using that option, so you can delete from your wall while people are offline.
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)16. Thanks a bunch. Probably won't risk it.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,664 posts)17. Here is a thread you might like
Looks like CalPeggy is using that feature quite well:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12403264
FLyellowdog
(4,276 posts)18. CalPeggy can do ALL things. Thanks.
1620rock
(2,218 posts)7. More like an artificial leg...