Due to popular demand, I'm considering actually using my blog. It's not that I didn't want to a year and a-half ago, it's just that I didn't have much to say. Oh, I've been using Facebook a bit, and commenting there, but I don't think that's the same thing. I tried Twitter too, but I never really got any satisfaction from 130 characters. I followed a few people there as well but have since stopped unless those people's tweets (twits?) are redirected to FB I don't read them. There's something about trying to keep up with a long list of semi-familiar names and the stuff they're writing. So, I'm too un-cool for Twitter but I feel fairly comfortable on FB.
My daughter is an interesting social networking (SN) "sociology" case. She's the right age (22) for MySpace/Facebook/Twitter/etc. but chooses instead to use Tumblr which she says is a bit like a blog and a bit like Twitter. You "follow" people on Tumblr but the posts are blog-like and you can include photos. I've never done a comparison of the different SN sites but I'm sure one exists. She lives on Tumblr when she's not working and we call it her addiction. She's even met a guy in Portugal on Tumblr and they video-chat on Skype all the time. She's going out to meet him in a couple of months so it proves that SN can bring people together. I guess.
Hopefully, I'll continue to write about my experiences with SN as I do find it fun to keep in touch with old, and new, friends and family there. Whether I'm just a statistic in this new form of communication or not, it does seem to serve a purpose for good or bad. We'll see.
Cometary out!
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