Networks.
I thought I’d use technology and the internet to talk about technology and networks (irony, I know). With the amount of gadgets available to us, we have access to thousands of networks. Information flows more freely, we can get in contact with virtually anyone, and in order to keep up in this day and age, you have to be tapped into one.
To clarify, my journey here isn’t to explore Twitter itself (though it’s inevitably part of it) but to find out what makes the underground blogging community tick. Why is everyone itching to write off Twitter and move on to new things? What will happen to Twitter if the early adopters/bloggers that made it great abandon ship — but leave its strong community of mainstream dedicated users? And what does it say about this trend in web 2.0 overall?
Remember the days when you couldn’t login to Facebook without a cheery message alerting that you’d been bitten? Or for the more polite friends, that you’ve received an invitation to be bitten? Or something like that?
Then you were probably, like me, under the spell of the Facebook Zombie Application (and maybe later, for the brave souls, the vampire and werewolf varieties of the same app). You had to turn as many friends into zombies to earn points (read: the more people that install the application, the better). Read More
Whenever I’m in a new situation, say a party or doing work at Starbucks, the first thing I try and do — sometimes before I introduce myself by name — is convince everyone around me about how awesomely different I am. I’ve got eclectic tastes in music (you’ve probably never heard of ANYONE I listen to…I’m that cool!); I can recite really quirky, funny quotes from my favorite TV shows (you’ve probably never heard of them either — they’re all British and air in the middle of the night), and if I get asked about my religion, I just snicker and say something snarky like “Beyonceism.” I also bring a lot of photos of myself to parties and whatnot, so I can show everyone dozens of photos of myself sticking my tongue out the photographer, cause I’m just out of control! Eclectic and silly, that’s me! I’d finish up the evening by reciting all the conversations I’ve had with all my friends lately and joking with you that I’m in an open relationship with one of my friends from back home.
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