Monday’s Link Roundup.

In this Monday’s Link Roundup, check out How to Use Twitter as an Adult if you’re nervous about entering into the Twittersphere.  And a  truly original way to document life stories can be found in Worn Stories.

• Funeral for a Friend. “I started to distrust telephones the instant they stopped working. I can’t pinpoint when that was — the first time I “dropped” a call, or someone said, “I’m losing you” — and I don’t know why the telephone, the analog landline telephone, was never formally mourned. I do remember clearly what life was like when telephones worked.”

• Junk Drawers, A Portrait Through Trinkets. “You can tell a lot about a person by their most invaluable possession — those quirky trinkets and sentimental keepsakes we all keep in a box or drawer somewhere, a timecapsule of all we’ve ever romanticized and treasured.”

• How to Use Twitter as an Adult. “So you’re still not entirely sure about this whole Twitter thing. You get its popularity, but you’re also an adult who doesn’t want to submit to an overwhelming fire hose of tweets. Web VIP Derek Powazek explains Twitter for Adults.”

• Up to 200 Users in a Really Simple Voice Chat. “I have found an online voice chat service that would be great for holding training sessions, genealogy meetings, chat rooms, talking with relatives, online games, or even for general chit-chat. Voxli is an application designed to allow groups to hold a voice chat over the Internet without running up huge phone bills.”

• Stories In Song. “It has deep history in Britain, but story-telling through song is relevant today, according to Rob Young, author and Editor-at Large of The Wire magazine.”

• Worn Stories. “… a collection of stories about clothing and memory. It is updated every week or so and edited by Emily Spivack.”

• Silence Speaks. “…an international digital storytelling initiative supporting the telling and witnessing of stories that all too often remain unspoken — of surviving and thriving in the wake of violence and abuse, armed conflict, or displacement, and of challenging stigma or marginalization.”

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