well another long break and not too many 'things' done...so i'll just fill the gap with some idle chatter...usually find it works...
so on to facebook...i'm still one of the unconverted i'm afraid...i think it might be a generation thing - younger people seem much more comfortable putting themselves out 'there'...mark zuckerburg says that the '
age of privacy is over' and maybe he's right...when researching stuff for my course i'm often amazed at how much you can find out about authors, through their blogs or websites or whatever...it seems the norm in the US particularly to have an online portfolio to put yourself out there, like a CV or whatever...i don't think i'm ready for that, but maybe it'll come over here after a while like most things...but getting back to facebook, i've recently closed my account which i had for a year or so...a good few of my friends have accounts but i found it a bit repetitive as my 'wall' was full of postings by the same few heavy users (not in the trainspotting sense, i just mean they write on facebook a lot)...posting about this and that but nothing in particular...when i did contact people on it i used to use the private messaging thing anyway so in the end i thought why bother...basically i'm just cranky...
as i said before i don't tend to follow people i know in 'real' life' on twitter so i don't find the same problem there as i usually have a reason for following them...that probably sounds like i'm a stalker or something...maybe i AM....WHO KNOWS....
'generation thing' 'younger people'- oh my I feel so old!!!!
ReplyDeleteha, reading back it sounds worse than i meant! there are some recent graduates on my course who are never off twitter/facebook and it set me thinking about how i had barely even seen the web when i did my degree...
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