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It kind of worries me how easy it is to stalk research people online...and beyond that, how strong my desire is to do this. All of these websites about people, it's so easy to connect from one to the other, gathering more and more information about a person. Today I found myself spending altogether too long trying to piece people together. I just love being able to find answers to questions when I'm confused about something. Like when I lost my wallet, I just couldn't help my desire to search for it online. I guess it just translates into needing to find every online representation of the people you meet. Even people I haven't met. ha.
It also makes me think about my own representation online. My website, which I would like to be my official presence online, is not online yet. So I have a web of livejournal, myspace, facebook & friendster type sites that represent me. And this for some reason makes me want to update lj more regularly.... I guess for the sake of any stalkers researchers I do have. Not that I want random people finding my house...but what about innocent friends I meet who maybe deserve to know more about my daily life? Just like I feel Iike I should get to read about theirs. Hm. I understand why many journals are private, I like that you can make choices about who can see your stuff, and surely having public journals limits what you can talk about...but isn't the passive aggressive, maybe so-and-so is reading this and thinking I don't know they're riding this, kind of fun too? I don't know. I guess I'm just rambling about the internet really. It's a fun thing to think about. Speaking of blogs... I've been podcasting a couple of the videos that the kids here at Governor's School have made on www.clickaster.com/gse if anyone wants to check that out. I'm so amazed, looking at the tracker, at how many people look at it. I just think it's cool that in this community, not only are the kids looking at eachother's work, but that people ouside of the community are looking at it too. hm. the end. going to bojangles with shameka.
(edit: after I posted, Shameka encouraged me to use another word, besides stalk...hm, is that even how you spell it?)
It also makes me think about my own representation online. My website, which I would like to be my official presence online, is not online yet. So I have a web of livejournal, myspace, facebook & friendster type sites that represent me. And this for some reason makes me want to update lj more regularly.... I guess for the sake of any stalkers researchers I do have. Not that I want random people finding my house...but what about innocent friends I meet who maybe deserve to know more about my daily life? Just like I feel Iike I should get to read about theirs. Hm. I understand why many journals are private, I like that you can make choices about who can see your stuff, and surely having public journals limits what you can talk about...but isn't the passive aggressive, maybe so-and-so is reading this and thinking I don't know they're riding this, kind of fun too? I don't know. I guess I'm just rambling about the internet really. It's a fun thing to think about. Speaking of blogs... I've been podcasting a couple of the videos that the kids here at Governor's School have made on www.clickaster.com/gse if anyone wants to check that out. I'm so amazed, looking at the tracker, at how many people look at it. I just think it's cool that in this community, not only are the kids looking at eachother's work, but that people ouside of the community are looking at it too. hm. the end. going to bojangles with shameka.
(edit: after I posted, Shameka encouraged me to use another word, besides stalk...hm, is that even how you spell it?)