North Reading's Week in Social Media

Here at North Reading Patch, social media is a big deal. It's how we interact with you, answer your questions and get to see what's on your mind. Social Media Saturday is a weekly feature where we highlight your questions and thoughts you've shared on Facebook and other media throughout the past week. We'll also point you to some new and interesting pages you may not have known about before.

Overheard

Here is a sampling of comments and happenings on our Facebook page and the social media world from the past week:

• On Tuesday, we asked our Facebook followers where they were during the April Fools' Day snowstorm of 1997. Deb Luciano said she was trying to go on the interview of her life at Fidelity Investments. In the middle of the storm, she trekked to Boston and landed the job.
• Continuing the comment thread on the April Fools' Day storm, Lynne Nyhan Alley was on a free vacation in Cancun during the storm when her family told her about the two feet of snow the area was receiving. Heather Wright also was in a warmer climate, as she said she was in Florida during that storm.
• On Sunday night, we posted a photo of pink flamingos in someone's front yard and asked our readers if they knew why the plastic birds were gracing a lawn with their presence. Dawn-Marie Owen Doke got it right, saying it was for the .

Facebook page of the week

If you like following North Reading Patch on Facebook, check out our sister Facebook page Merrimack Patch. This page provides the latest updates and information from around the region.

Your town on Facebook

For more Facebook pages North Reading residents might find interesting, check out our list of . And don’t forget to follow North Reading Patch at www.facebook.com/NorthReadingPatch.

You also can follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/NReadingPatch.