A general poutpourri of updates:
- I finally succumbed and joined Facebook. I had resisted up until now, because I hardly write on this blog anymore, and I don't like my real name associated with an internet presence and Facebook requires your real name.
- I don't have very many friends on Facebook. It's my own fault because I don't utilize the networking functions, where you identify groups (such as schools, employers) and instead am relying solely on person-to-person connections to make Friends. So I "befriended" my family, and so far I've reconnected with friends from my teenage years (what a hoot that has been) and some cousins (who were babies the last I saw them, or even were not yet born when I last visited the Philippines). I also hooked up with my best friend from high school, but whom I have not seen since 1982 or so.
- I find that I am getting to be a lot more inhibited with what I say on Facebook, as opposed to my thoroughly opinionated and passionate writings on my blog.
- I have not yet decided if I will network Facebook through my present employer. Right now, I doubt it.
- I did set my Twitter updates to also update my Facebook status... although really I can't figure out what kind of use I will get from this function.
- I recently ran across this article on Wired about the privacy ramifications of an online presence. The article is about the hazards of the new GPS capabilities of the iPhone and Google phone, but I am always stewing about the amount of personal info one can glean from blogs and social sites.
- So now I've got Twitter updates going to Facebook, and Twitter and Facebook updates going to my phone. This seems too much. I mean, how much use can these phone updates be? I mean, what daily use can these beeps and auto updates be to me?
- Oh shit, my phone just reminded me to pay my damn rent...
Hey! What's your twitter account name? I would like to follow you....
Posted by: Maria | February 03, 2009 at 10:37 AM