In late January, I proposed a Facebook meme to share a love song a day for February that contains Valentine’s Day.
Here are the first seven songs and the second seven songs I had shared.
Below is the third set of seven great love songs I shared, with some short commentary for each.
The Generation One Autobot icons below appeared in the cartoon series from 1984 to 1986. Their names have a double digit after them indicate the year of their debut. History and most of the artwork were courtesy of Adam Botch the Crab’s Transformers Box Art Archive. More information on each Autobot can be found at the archive or Wikipedia. In the latter, there a pretty good sized entry for most of the Transformers! It’s all very fascinating if you love the franchise, though rather violent with the comic book sagas where Transformers have their heads blown off, literally!
I have added a bit more punch to most of the artwork scans (i.e. a tad more contrast and saturation). I have also converted them to 256 pixel square pictures, with the graphic as large as possible, for use as avatars, buddy icons and profile pictures. You can use these pretty much for any application, including blogging avatars, since most don’t need a graphic as large as 256 pixels. Facebook and MySpace tend to max that out.
To get an icon:
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level: 8.1
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Sample avatar of Audrey Hepburn (actual size)
This is an old skool style Facebook tagging meme where it’s just pictures you tag and attribute whatever to them you choose to, not a new style version where there’s a more direct message. However, I just realized that just about everything that’s been created has been for the younger generation. While it’s true the younger generations do dominate the Internet usage, and Facebook, that was no reason to not create something for our elders.
Here’s how to get the picture:
Please click here for a complete list of over 100 Facebook picture tagging memes on this site with which you can use for fun with your friends.
I read somewhere that the elders were the largest growing age demographic of Internet users, in part because it was an effective way to keep up with their grandchildren and/or children. Intuitively accurate, if you ask me, as there’s a lot of motivation to be found in being involved in the lives of grandchildren, especially if you have a lot of time on your hands. Still, the elder demographic fall behind the averages. Check out the Forrester Research’s Groundswell Blog Social Technographics profiles to confirm. Pick the 55+ age category for any country and see how the blue bars tend to fall short of the thin white vertical line average for every participating category of Internet users.
Apr 14 update: CNN confirmed what I said above in its All in the Facebook family story on Apr 13.
Those Social Technographics further revealed the 55+ users to be very unlikely to be Joiners or users who maintain social networking profiles, i.e. Facebook users. But as said above, that was no reason to avoid creating something for them. So here is a collection of classic movie stars from the silver screen, when the silver screen still looked silver. They are beautiful portraits which I personally see no reason why the younger generation couldn’t use themselves and learn something of our treasured past. Heck, they sure look better to me than a lot of the movie star picture these days!
Video notice courtesy of the lifelessons4u blog.
Special credits goes to Dr Macro’s High Quality Movie Scans site for many of the portraits used in the Facebook tagging picture above. Beautiful galleries and lots of great info!
By the way, what’s the big deal with Bette Davis’ eyes, like mentioned in Kim Carnes’ song? [ Lyrics ]
Have you seen Lauren Bacall’s eyes? Them’s first degree murder!
Lauren is not in the Facebook tagging meme because she is still living. Yeah, those eyes will even keep Death away!
These avatars and icons were created specifically for Facebook profile pictures, at 256 pixels wide. However, they could be used for other social media sites and anything allowing for an avatar/icon.
These graphics came from the original files I collected in making the Superheroes Facebook tagging poster, with some additional pics not used. To get a profile picture below:
These avatars were created specifically for Facebook, though they could be used for other social media sites and anything allowing for an avatar. They can even be used where square avatars are needed because they crop well. Please come back later and look for links below for avatars of other themes, some of which are more square.
These graphics came from the original files I collected in making my new Care Bears Facebook tagging poster. To get an avatar:
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