Today
marks the first day of Spring, so the annual “Spring Cleaning” begins! When I
hear cleaning, I think: Vacuum, Garbage bags, Windex, Mop, Soapy water. But our
list of Spring Cleaning items will not have you reaching for any of those! Since
many people now look on Pinterest for the best way to clean a microwave or
creative ways to organize your closet before actually doing it, we thought it
would be appropriate to have a list of Spring Cleaning items related to Social
Media and Technology.
Facebook
Do
you ever scroll through your Newsfeed and think, “Who on earth is this person?”
That’s a sure sign that you need some Facebook Friend Spring Cleaning. Go
through your list of “Friends” and unfriend those who you really don’t know
(trust me, everybody has them!) If you have never spoken with one of your
Facebook friends in person, there is a good chance you do not need to see what
they are eating for lunch every day or what their new car looks like. But don’t
worry, when you unfriend someone they will not be notified, but you will be
removed from their friends list as well. Also, depending on where you work or
play, you may want to consider cleaning out your Facebook pictures, too….. Need
I say more?
Mobile Device
Look
through your contacts and weed out those people who you never call or text. If
you haven’t contacted them in a couple years, delete! It will save you time in
the long run and save up some space for downloading another version of Angry
Birds. Speaking of apps, if you have only used the app once, delete it! (Ahh,
doesn’t that feel good?) If you’re an Apple user, here’s a tip. When you remove an app through one of your devices or
through the Apps screen in iTunes, it does not delete the application off of
your computer. In order to permanently delete from your hard drive you need to
delete it through the iTunes library.
Email
We
all have been there… Looking for one email but can’t find it amongst the
hundreds of others. It’s very advantageous to create email folders. If you’re a
Microsoft Outlook user, it is super easy to create folders and to organize
emails. If you click File, then Manage Rules & Alerts, you can create rules
that send emails into a specified folder based on words in the subject line or
body of the email, the email recipients, etc.
Docs
It
is smart to save some of your documents for a few years, especially business documents.
You never know when you will need it, right? But if you haven’t looked at the
folder or document since 2007, it’s time to dump it in the recycle bin! Sort all
of your folders or docs by date, and you will be surprised by all the “trash”
you have saved up in there.
Do you have any other social/tech related "cleans" you'd like to share? We'd love to hear!
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