Old friends and new

I have finally started with my of social networking. It really isn't something I ever had time for; I have trouble with real networking. I like the real contact. I'm getting to be a touchy feely kind of person. And the older I get, the more like my mother I become. She is like a tiny whirl wind. She loves everyone when she first meets them; you have to do something seriously bad for her not to like you. And she hugs complete strangers with such enthusiasm some times that they just can't help but smile. So computer networking just wouldn't work for her. The nurse in her demands the human touch, literally. And I'm not sure it will work for me.

But this requirement linked me up with a couple of old friends that I had lost contact with. They are the kind where you pick up the conversation you were having the last time you talked, even if that was five years ago. You just don't miss a beat. How much I'll keep up with it is a different question. If I didn't have to work and could instead spend lots of time browsing and checking things out, I might do it more.

I am not sure there are specific things I like or dislike. I try to be neutral about these things and give new experiences time before I pass judgement, so being asked this question repeatedly is a bit irritating. I did not find them as user friendly as I thought they would be. I quickly found things I thought were at least in bad taste. Sometimes, I wonder how so many young people ended up with such bad manners. If this is how they express their personalities, I fear for the future. But this is a snap judgement; as I said I try to avoid those.

I imagine they are popular, because they give the sense that you can have your say the way you want. They let you reach out to a larger audience and provide the opportunity to perhaps get discovered. Stories about someone "making it" like in the movies, because of their MySpace account are starting to sound a lot like the winning the lottery stories. It opens up the world and expands the possibilities. Use it right and it definitely can be your friend; get too sucked in and it can lead to tragedy. One person committing suicide because of something a stranger they never met said to them on the Internet is definitely one person too many. But enough for this posting.

Flickr is cool man

The faster I go the behinder I get. Or, "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date. No time to lose, hello goodbye I'm late, I'm late, I'm late." But I shall press on, over the river and through the woods to the computer once again.

Flickr is cool, man. I have been familiar with it for a long time, thanks Anne, but just never got around to using it. Should have taken advantage when it first came up, then I wouldn't be so far behind. Now I have a Flickr account that I can try to learn to use, at some other time.

So, let's see if I can figure this out on my own, because the instructions are a little muddy to me. But Help is there to guide me through. When I preview this, I don't see an image but I am out of time so I will publish and if it isn't there, I guess I'll just have to come back to it.