I realized today that I have not posted anything in over six months. It just goes to show that all of my prayers to meet friends were answered and I was able to be myself again. Since February I started attending Thomasville Road Baptist Church and got really plugged into their college group. There I met many friend whom I hang out with on a regular basis. I passed all my classes with nothing less than a B and I also came home for the summer to work & try to save money, which is impossible!!! I can't believe that my summer is almost over & I will be leaving my family again for FSU, but I am so excited & can't wait to get back to school! Football season is going to be so much fun, especially since we have been ranked # 5 in the Nation!!:) I can honestly say there is nothing like a football game in Doak Campbell Stadium! While all of these things are extremely exciting, there is one thing that I am dreading about this summer, saying goodbye to my best friend... She has been accepted into the University of Georgia (YUK!) & will be leaving my in just one week. I know she is going to do great things & will be loved by even more people than now, but I will sure miss coming home to see her beautiful face & receiving her awesome hugs. I realize this is not a long enough post, especially since I haven't posted in over 6 months, but there is just too much to tell. I promise to make an effort to post more for my family so they are able to have a little look into my life. :)
Thanks for reading!

Abbie Gail:)

Facebook Security

So this week I had to write a research paper for my Computer Fluency class on any subject related to technology. When trying to decide what I was going to write on, I came across an article about facebook security. It was very disturbing and scared me half to death! I read how easily it is for hackers to get onto a person's facebook page and gain access to all of their personal information. After reading this article I decided to write my paper about it and try to discourage all my readers from putting too much information online. One of the easiest ways for a hakcer to get personal information is through third-party app developers, which are the people who design the online quizes, groups and games. These developers are automatically allowed access to everything you have posted on your profile page. Although the security department of Facebook has said they are only allowed your information and not the information of your friends, there are nasty people who will pose as these third-party developers just to gain the information on your profile as well as your friends. I know this all sounds scary! & believe me, I totally agree! So here is what you have to do! First, make a password that is incredibly hard for anyone to guess. Not the same one that you've had since you made your profile, and change it every so often. Next, set your profile on the highest security option available. Then make sure to take off any personal information, such as your email, physical address, where you work or live and most importantly your phone number. Hackers LOVE these kind of things and they make it very easy for them to steal your identity. The last thing you need to do is go through all of the groups that you are involved in, and make sure that they don't have too many people in them. This is another way for the hackers to get into your profile. Even though you may not know anyone from California, being a part of some group called, "I love Cali" may give these hackers access to your profile through the group. If you do this along with deleting any "friends" that aren't your actual friends, your profile will be much safer! I know this is sooo crazy and you think it could never happen to you, but I promise that it is much more common than you may think, and it can happen to anyone! ...

So I know this may seem really boring, but I think it's really important for all of my friends to know how easily your identity and safety can be stollen. On a happier note, the boys above me have stopped playing their music soo loudly! Maybe they read my blog and decided that it was time to stop!!! haha... Well maybe not, but hopefully they keep up the good work:)

Have an awesome day ya'll:)


Abbie Gail

The Boys Upstairs

So today has been one heck of a day! I've done a lot and have been very productive! I love that feeling:) So tonight all I want to do is relax and watch a movie, but my awesome neighbors believe that it is okay for them to blast their music as loud as they want... Now this probably wouldn't be a problem on the weekend, knowing how people in Tally LOVE to Party, but it's a school night, and I can hear EVERY SINGLE WORD! It's also not the first time that the boys upstairs have done this. One night they played their music from 3 in the afternoon until 8 am the next morning... I have been very nice in asking them to please turn it down, which worked for a week, but now it seems as though they have no respect for the girls downstairs. I have even gone as far as call the front desk to see what they can do, which is nothing. Now I try not to complain to much, but I really don't like hearing "Black and Yellow" at 6am, nor do I like the pictures on my wall to rattle from the bass! So here's the question: How can I get them to stop? I feel like I've tried everything, and will continue until it stops or they move out, but I would like to come home just one night and not have to worry it.

Today I decided that it would be a good idea to start a blog. I have never done this, so I have no idea how it works, but I'm guessing there are no rules! Yay!:) I promised my Memaw that I would write down my whole life story, starting with my stay at FSU! Well it's taken me a little while to actually do this, but I am, so here it goes.....

I came to Florida State in search of a degree, now I'm just looking for friends. No one ever really tells you how hard it is going to be to pack everything you own up and head into a city all by your lonesome. I was soooo uber excited to get to Tally that I never stopped to think how lonely I would actually be. When I got here, I couldn't wait to start classes and get involved in the many different organizations FSU has to offer, but once I actually started to get into everything I realized something about myself that I never realized before.... I'm really super shy! I have NEVER thought of myself as a shy person before, and I'm pretty sure my friends would say the same, but it seems like ever since I moved to Tally, I have lost my sense of crazy outgoingness! It kinda stinks because I don't feel as though I am really allowing myself to do this out of fear of someone not liking me. It's almost like being back in middle school, when everyone wanted to be cool to "fit in." I never really got that though until now! Now I know this sounds extrememly sad and like I'm depressed, but let me assure you that I am not! I have these three amazing roomates who can cheer me up in a second, and I have started to make friends, but it's not like Starke, where everybody knows everybody... It's not the same, but I am really trying hard to just put myself out there! I'm trying to reach out of my comfort zone and allow people to see the real me! Crazy, outgoing, goofy, loud and bubbly Abbie! I keep hoping that people will like me, but I'm starting to realize, that I will never make any friends if I don't stop caring how people look or respond to me!

Yay! So I totally just figured all of that out tonight on my own! Here is my promise, I will continue to be my outgoing self and see how well that works, and then I will allow all of my readers (which doesn't seem to look like many right now) to know how that goes for me!:)