Public Entry, social networking.
Just removed a few people, again, it's nothing personal. If I've been following you for a while and determined we have little in common, eh, what's the point.
So now I'm down to only following 54 of you, a good half of which almost never post. I cannot imagine renewing my paid account next year, or even sticking around too much longer. I also don't know why 134 people are still following me, since I never publicly post. ?? Maybe they all left too?
I still don't like Facebook. Am never going to be a fan of Tumblr, although I do have one and it's occasionally fun to go on and I enjoy seeing what friends post plus HOLY SHIT has Sioned become a graphics whiz or what? She has over 5,000 followers on there. One of her original Harry Potter graphics has over 30,000 notes now. That is insane.
I've posted here a lot in the past few days, mostly irrelevant dithering, but if your friends page is as big of a wasteland as mine is, I'm guessing you don't mind the sudden spammage.
I'll leave this here as a "comment to be added" post, so if you are wandering by and see our interests match up and you post now and then, feel free to ask.
As far as social networking, Twitter has been my go-to place for three years now. I know some people don't "get" it, so I'll explain how I use it one more time - as a mass text messaging/IM substitute/pen-pal service. I keep the amount of people I follow there low and rarely keep people around who I'm not having regular conversation with. And it's pretty great to have conversations that everyone I follow can read and jump into at any time.
I've had pen-pals ever since I was little, yes, even into adulthood! I still love exchanging packages in the mail (which I have done with a number of Twitter friends) or being able to help someone out who lives clear across the country (and in three cases, in the UK!) just by randomly having the information or item they need. That's social networking at it's best. And of course, there's the fact that I'm meeting up with people IN PERSON OMG who I never would have met but through Twitter. How is expanding your social network while constantly being in touch with your friends a bad thing? Puzzling.
I'm still hearing that teh interwebz are causing people to be more 'out of touch' with each other. I couldn't disagree more, but instead of posing another argument, I'll just link you to something Douglas Adams wrote 12 years ago on this topic. This was written just 2 years before he died, and it's a beautiful argument from an older generation, in support of technology, change, and interactivity.
How To Stop Worrying and Love the Internet
So now I'm down to only following 54 of you, a good half of which almost never post. I cannot imagine renewing my paid account next year, or even sticking around too much longer. I also don't know why 134 people are still following me, since I never publicly post. ?? Maybe they all left too?
I still don't like Facebook. Am never going to be a fan of Tumblr, although I do have one and it's occasionally fun to go on and I enjoy seeing what friends post plus HOLY SHIT has Sioned become a graphics whiz or what? She has over 5,000 followers on there. One of her original Harry Potter graphics has over 30,000 notes now. That is insane.
I've posted here a lot in the past few days, mostly irrelevant dithering, but if your friends page is as big of a wasteland as mine is, I'm guessing you don't mind the sudden spammage.
I'll leave this here as a "comment to be added" post, so if you are wandering by and see our interests match up and you post now and then, feel free to ask.
As far as social networking, Twitter has been my go-to place for three years now. I know some people don't "get" it, so I'll explain how I use it one more time - as a mass text messaging/IM substitute/pen-pal service. I keep the amount of people I follow there low and rarely keep people around who I'm not having regular conversation with. And it's pretty great to have conversations that everyone I follow can read and jump into at any time.
I've had pen-pals ever since I was little, yes, even into adulthood! I still love exchanging packages in the mail (which I have done with a number of Twitter friends) or being able to help someone out who lives clear across the country (and in three cases, in the UK!) just by randomly having the information or item they need. That's social networking at it's best. And of course, there's the fact that I'm meeting up with people IN PERSON OMG who I never would have met but through Twitter. How is expanding your social network while constantly being in touch with your friends a bad thing? Puzzling.
I'm still hearing that teh interwebz are causing people to be more 'out of touch' with each other. I couldn't disagree more, but instead of posing another argument, I'll just link you to something Douglas Adams wrote 12 years ago on this topic. This was written just 2 years before he died, and it's a beautiful argument from an older generation, in support of technology, change, and interactivity.
How To Stop Worrying and Love the Internet