Blog. A strange word for a not-so-strange concept. Turning thoughts and ideas into sentences in an effort to piece together something for yourself, to reflect on what the heck has just happened to you, and posting it in cyber space in hopes that someone else will read it and perhaps know exactly what you mean.
Social networking has become and increasingly popular phenomenon with the availability of tools such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and even Nexopia – don’t get me started on online-dating, because those of you who know me are well aware of where that discussion starts and ends. You could say that blogs, tweets and status updates are kind of a vanity thing, in that we post these things with the assumption that someone, somewhere will want to know what you did 30 seconds ago.
Am I guilty of this too?? Absolutely.
As social beings, we naturally want others to know what we’re up to and are generally interested in “creeping” other peoples’ pages to find out what they did last weekend, who they’re dating, and what new toy they’ve just invested in. Regardless, it’s hard to think of where we would be without the advent of online social networking. Would university students get more work done? Probably. Would we lose contact with that best friend who just moved away? Quite likely.
And really, what else would we do at 1am when we can’t sleep?
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