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I graduate High School tomorrow night and just thought I would share my cap decoration. I wasn't technically allowed to decorate my cap so I got a bit creative with scrapbook paper and some markers.!
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So many girls I know from college literally have their name in their finsta. LIKE WHY. We know its you and now its even easier to find someone who you've let follow you to see your posts.

My friend told me to follow her on finsta..I told her that instagram pulls her profile up for people I know.

I know I'm an old millennial because I don't get the appeal. Most of the finstas I follow are just things you would want to post to Twitter but can't because people follow you. Like things about s/o or parents. I just would send these things in texts or keep them to mysel.

I honestly don't mind the concept of a personal instagram (I guess the kids are calling them 'finstas' these days), but guys, keep it PG13 at most.

I understand why someone would want to have a social network that's divorced from a public presence account, but don't be an idiot about it I guess.

You're a journo right? We discussed at length whether finstas were appropriate for reporters that follow a certain beat. I know i don't want to follow politics but my post grad job might require a more neutral profile, so I have considered making my accounts private if that were to happen.
 
Wait a "finsta" is just a second instagram account that's private? Oh man I thought it was a new app... I'll see my apparently old, un-hip, self out.

Or maybe I am hip because my instagram has been private to a select audience from day one?
The silly thing is that while finsta is supposed to be private they wind up with as many followers on their finsta as on their rinsta. They just can't stop posting EVERYTHING, it's a serious problem. As if they don't post it, it didn't happen. They just always need to remember that nothing posted online is private, ever.
 
So - I'm so disappointed in yearbooks these days. Does anyone else still have well made yearbooks in MS and HS? Is there still a yearbook staff?

When I was in MS, you could be on the YB staff in 8th grade (it was a year long class) and you did everything - came up with the theme, took pictures, wrote caption, wrote stories about every class, etc. In HS, it was similar but the kids really did mostly everything. Even had to go out and sell ads. We did so much work and our YBs were awesome.

Now it's just like a mess of pictures put together - with no real information at all. Half the time, they aren't even put together in a coherent order.

Does anyone still have nicely made YBs? I haven't seen the HS yearbooks so maybe they are better.
 
So - I'm so disappointed in yearbooks these days. Does anyone else still have well made yearbooks in MS and HS? Is there still a yearbook staff?

When I was in MS, you could be on the YB staff in 8th grade (it was a year long class) and you did everything - came up with the theme, took pictures, wrote caption, wrote stories about every class, etc. In HS, it was similar but the kids really did mostly everything. Even had to go out and sell ads. We did so much work and our YBs were awesome.

Now it's just like a mess of pictures put together - with no real information at all. Half the time, they aren't even put together in a coherent order.

Does anyone still have nicely made YBs? I haven't seen the HS yearbooks so maybe they are better.

I am on the yearbook staff at my High School and this year I was even the editor in chief as well and presided over the whole book. In middle school our book was made by the Youth Service Center director (who also happened to be one of the cheer coaches) and it was a mess. There were captions missing on pictures and you could tell not much time went in to making it. However, once I began High School it was a different story. Yearbook is a full year class at my school and you have to be recommended by a teacher or apply for a spot on the staff. We create the theme, sell ads, deign layouts and take pictures for the book as well. Obviously there are still some small mistakes in the book but our supervisors are two amazing English teachers that devote a lot of time to the book and the staff. Our school has over 2,000 students and over 50 clubs and organizations and all of them are covered in detail. If you want some pictures of our book (Which I think is amazing!) shoot me a PM and I would be glad to share some with you.

However, not all High Schools are like this but most take the yearbook so much more seriously than middle schools do.
 
I've been trying to see if CPs HS has a YB class but haven't been able to see one. I doubt she would do it but it was such a fun thing to do. Glad to hear it might still be a thing. Maybe I was just lucky to have one for middle school too. Clearly it wasn't as well done as our high school one but the kids did mostly everything including the drawings and pictures and copy. I cringe when I read the copy I wrote back then though ;)

Do y'all do themed yearbooks?
 
I've been trying to see if CPs HS has a YB class but haven't been able to see one. I doubt she would do it but it was such a fun thing to do. Glad to hear it might still be a thing. Maybe I was just lucky to have one for middle school too. Clearly it wasn't as well done as our high school one but the kids did mostly everything including the drawings and pictures and copy. I cringe when I read the copy I wrote back then though ;)

Do y'all do themed yearbooks?
We had a yearbook club in MS that I was a part of because it was being over run by popular girls and I didn't want them to have JUST pictures of them and their friends in it. HS we had a class and you had to have taken up to AT LEAST Digital Art 2. Our yearbook theme in HS was always something to do with the ocean because we're a beach community.
 
I took yearbook in high school. Hated it. We always had good yearbooks.


Now as a middle school librarian that literally had the yearbook forced upon me and got offered a little $500 stipend to split with my assistant, and no time to do it whatso ever on top of my other duties.....and in addition to the fact that we had to do the whole thing in MICROSOFT WORD, I think the whole thing came out fairly well. No I didn't spend time captioning pictures, but the whole thing is in color, we were able to sell it to the kids for $15 (we're a high poverty school) and it only cost $4.50 per book to print.

I ordered photoshop and surface pro tablets with my leftover money and I hope to have a yearbook club and photographer next year (they did buy us a new Canon Rebel) but I mean my passion isn't in yearbook making so, "we will see".


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I took yearbook in high school. Hated it. We always had good yearbooks.


Now as a middle school librarian that literally had the yearbook forced upon me and got offered a little $500 stipend to split with my assistant, and no time to do it whatso ever on top of my other duties.....and in addition to the fact that we had to do the whole thing in MICROSOFT WORD, I think the whole thing came out fairly well. No I didn't spend time captioning pictures, but the whole thing is in color, we were able to sell it to the kids for $15 (we're a high poverty school) and it only cost $4.50 per book to print.

I ordered photoshop and surface pro tablets with my leftover money and I hope to have a yearbook club and photographer next year (they did buy us a new Canon Rebel) but I mean my passion isn't in yearbook making so, "we will see".


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If your up-and-coming yearbook club ever gets more money, consider getting Adobe InDesign (a program in Adobe's Creative Suite along with Photoshop) - it will make creating the year book a million times easier compared to Photoshop.

ETA: I was in Yearbook in 9th grade as that-club-you-join-because-it-looks-good-on-your-college-application-to-be-involved-in-your-school-in-some-way club. I freaking hated it so much.
 
We had a yearbook club in MS that I was a part of because it was being over run by popular girls and I didn't want them to have JUST pictures of them and their friends in it. HS we had a class and you had to have taken up to AT LEAST Digital Art 2. Our yearbook theme in HS was always something to do with the ocean because we're a beach community.


Haha, for years my kids elementary school YB was always full of pictures of the popular kids too. Their moms would send in tons and tons of photos of them and I would see them on every page. This year, I was pleasantly surprised that I did not notice an abundance of photos of any one child or group of children. Whoever took over YB, really made an effort to represent all/most of the students.
 
Haha, for years my kids elementary school YB was always full of pictures of the popular kids too. Their moms would send in tons and tons of photos of them and I would see them on every page. This year, I was pleasantly surprised that I did not notice an abundance of photos of any one child or group of children. Whoever took over YB, really made an effort to represent all/most of the students.
I did the yearbook when my oldest was in K-2 (that is our primary school). We were very aware and careful of not repeating pictures of children. The person I took over for was very insistent on looking for those children who "do not readily catch the eye" and putting those more in the focus than the group of girls with arms linked and hamming it up for the camera.

MS yearbook is done by a club with an advisor. They do a good balance of representing all students and activities.

HS yearbook is also a club with an advisor. My oldest was the Features editor senior year after learning the ropes since her sophomore year. I felt they did a fantastic job but I was a little biased. ;)

I remember my college yearbook being a piece of crap that took almost almost a year after graduation to get. The editors were girls from my freshman year dorm who turned the entire publication into a photo album of them and their friends. I think I tossed it, I was so disgusted.
 
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