Social Web Sites

August 20, 2009 — I am not sure if I have blogged about social web sites before or not. Geez you'd thing I would look back at my list and maybe I could tell. But no, I'm too lazy for that. Oh well, I'm going to blog about them anyway.

I never thought I would be one to have an account on Facebook (FB) and certainly not MySpace (MS). But yup you guessed it, I now have accounts on both thanks to my crazy nieces and my wife Wanda. I have spent a fair amount of time over the past couple of days on both sites. They both have a multitude of different features that you could absolutely spend days dealing with and they all drive me crazy it seems. But I realize they need to be there to keep the masses happy. Some people are spending their lives on their little part of each of these sites. Don't they have real jobs? I guess I should talk, huh?

One really good thing about these sites though is that you can get in contact with people that you may not have had contact with in years. For instance, a childhood friend that I went all the way through school with contacted me on FB just the other day. I found out he is an attorney here in town and next week we are getting together and swap lies as he termed it. It should be interesting and I do look forward to it. Well with that experience urging me on I explored looking for other people I might know and sure enough I have gained contact with three others that I went to high school with 45 years ago. Additionally, I have gained contact with four former co-workers.

So all-in-all the experience that I so steadfastly refused to experience before has been pleasant. Now I still don't care for the BS that goes on with some folks on these sites, but I figure I have much more to gain in renewing old friendships...it's what really matters!