If we don't take care of the customer, maybe they'll stop bugging us.

Need to contact tech support at Facebook?  It's a challenge to connect to the right customer service person — you can waste hours circling through a maze of self-help prompts and navigating 150+ contact forms.

Or... instead you can use the list of How to Contact Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Other Social Networks compiled by Kristi Hines.

Kristi provides links to contact support staff for Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, StumbleUpon and Reddit.

Here are examples of the kinds of issues you might be presented with, with links to the correct contact for each:

Rita Meade wrote over at Book Riot about "a reading experience that I imagine most book-loving people have from time to time" after having tweeted this:

Waited a long time to read book. Read book. Didn't like book. Life now empty.

And Rebecca Schinsky replied:

There should be a word for that.

Rita got suggestions for lost of great invented words  — like "discombookulated" for the state of being confused by a book’s plot — and here are more of the collected neologisms and portmanteaux:

Positioning text in Word using spaces or tabs can be tricky to get words and figures to line up the way you want, and presenting data in paragraphs can make it hard to read.

Good news: it's easy to convert your text into a table to make it more readable, and arrange it in rows & columns instead of paragraphs.

If your library provides gadget "petting zoo" events to acquaint patrons with ebook readers, tablets, and other handheld devices, you'll want to take a look at TechSoup's Gadget Instruction post where you can get lots of great tips for providing one of your own, plus 3 library success stories you can learn from.

Haven't held a Gadget Petting Zoo yet? Here's what Techsoup's Crystal Schimpf says about the benefits of gadget instruction:

Many libraries offer training on specific gadgets such as e-readers, smartphones, and tablets, in an effort to help patrons access books and information more effectively.
In a recent Pew study (Library Services in the Digital Age), 69% of adults said they would be "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to attend a "tech petting zoo" type event at their local library, so that they can test and toy with different devices.
Offering gadget instruction can teach patrons how to use their device to download library materials, access library resources online, and improve their ability to find relevant and authoritative information from any location.

Note: if you're at a Winnefox library and want to hold a Gadget Petting Zoo event, contact me to borrow a WPLC Gadget Package.  The Gadget Pack contains handheld devices, including an iPad, Kindle Touch, Kindle Fire, NOOK Simple Touch, and NOOK Color.

Here's a sample of what you'll find at TechSoup's Gadget Instruction:

It's easy to get lost in spreadsheets — if data fills lots of rows or columns, when you scroll down or across you lose sight of column or row headers, and then information loses its meaning.

Freeze Panes can help by letting you view column and row headings continuously, while you scroll your document. It lets you keep a row or column still, while the rest of the cells around it can scroll freely.