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Well, the latter of part of the day is just like the start - utterly craptastic. Thanks LJ, for screwing up once again, and for not saving anything.
I had spent nearly an hour writing a reply to a friend's posting; Carefully thinking about what I was saying, carefully editing and sculpting it... But when I hit
, LJ burps up "Your reply ( Read more... )
I had spent nearly an hour writing a reply to a friend's posting; Carefully thinking about what I was saying, carefully editing and sculpting it... But when I hit
, LJ burps up "Your reply ( Read more... )
Comments from friends are never a bother, so no worries there. FaceBook CAN be a great time-waster, but it can also be a way to keep in touch with folks when everything else fails. I've just put two old friends back in contact with each other by negotiating a contact through FB. Makes me feel good to be able to do that. :)
Relating to a computer monitor is something that's more akin to my generation, I think. It's funny, I was just talking to Miami about that: Many of my online friends are also real-world friends (that is, we've met in person on multiple occasions), but we all started out in the old BBS systems like GEnie. We've gone from GEnie to private mailing lists to Yahoo Groups to Online chat rooms to LiveJournal to Facebook... The medium changes, but the gist of it stays the same.
Then we have the newest generation, who has never known a world without the Internet, or Facebook, or social-media in general. I wonder what sort of things their kids are going to take for granted.
(For what it's worth, my start to the online world was with my old Coleco ADAM computer, dialling up the local BBS systems in my mid-teens.)
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