Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’

NEW MEDIA & SOCIAL NETWORKING: Memes and Such

Monday, February 23rd, 2009


Susan doesn’t do memes and lists and when tagged, refuses to be “it.”

She isn’t antisocial exactly, nor necessarily dull and vague as a banana. She’s had threescore and one year behind her so there’s some experience from which to draw, albeit some of which is both shamefully and delightfully too private for sharing with either friends or strangers. Unfortunately, those same years deprive her of full memory without the taint of her creative force seeping through the cubicles of her mind.

No, there is no movie or book or song that forever changed her life; made a blip perhaps that created a perspective that hadn’t been used before as a monocle on daily living, but no great change in and of itself.  Favorites, yes; she can do favorites, though the list is constantly changing and she’d ask to be limited to the top three, or five at most. Favorites are not favorites above a certain number I would think.

Which brings up another reason why these questionnaires are no longer being filled and forwarded; the people I would care about I already know about or will…by conversation.

BLOGGING: And Communicating

Monday, February 9th, 2009


Learning a lot about the various methods of internet communication; learning a lot about the people who use them.

“Georgia” is a warmer, more welcoming font than “Lucida Grande” so I’ve made that change at both weblogs.

I find that the access to great circles of people without the intimacy or bonding appeals to a certain personality type. Political persuasion appears to be a psychological influence on communication style and choice. With the wide variety of services such as blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Diigo, Netvibes, Yahoo, just to name a few, there’s something for everyone. There’s a phenomenon of befriending by quantity, rather than quality, but that’s a trait that’s always been around in man’s nature. It just seems odd to me that anyone would care about having 7,000 followers or making any kind of reasonable attempt at following them.

But the world is large, and there is room for all of us in it.