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Social Media
Are you on Facebook? Myspace? Twitter? LinkedIn? These are social media sites and if you have an account – and preferably use it – you’re in Social Media.
Myspace. Personally, I think Myspace is for young people and musicians. The only reason I still have a Myspace page is so I can periodically see what my kids are doing. Max is on Myspace and when he doesn’t call me often enough I can go there and see the last time he logged in was the 12th. If he’s logging into Myspace things can’t be all that bad, right? I check on That Girl’s site to see what she’s posted about *snort* her single parenting (which is crap – Casey has Kira full time and she’s living with some guy who helps with the other two) issues. I’m watching my niece Brittany go through her first pregnancy. And I keep an eye on my daughter and her teenage friends, advising them to use care in what personal information they post and especially with the pictures.
Facebook. I’m on Facebook all the time. Poking friends, looking for new friends, keeping up with events, etc. And I love twitter. People either hate or love twitter. It just sits there keeping me company, keeping me in touch with my friends for quick jokes, updates, links of interest and just plain connection to other human beings.
Speaking of which, I took the chance and stopped by a long lost (well not so long maybe a bad year or so) friend’s last night and dragged her out for #EVFN. Her life’s been a little turmoil filled and she needed to be sort-of rescued. Meet new people. Take advantage of the whole social networking thing. I think she had a good time. I’m hoping she’ll get on twitter and keep going out with me.
Nowadays, the more people you know the better your chances of making positive changes in your life. When I think of the people I’ve met first online and then in real life and how much they’ve brought to me, I’m verklempt. I don’t want to think of the ugly dark hole I’d be wallowing in without your friendship and encouragement.
Thanks y’all.
No go and find someone you know and pull them into our circle of friends. Bring someone with you to the next meetup. Spread the lurve.
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about 3 years ago
Social Media, eh? Never heard of it. LOL
Yeah, tonight will be picking me & up so we can go into Minneapolis to the reading and book signing of some dude named Scott Sigler. You ever heard of him? 
Now that I have my iPhone I am *loving* the fact that I can follow Twitter again while working.
about 3 years ago
Without Social Media and twinklergirl I would have never met you! I’m so blessed. Why is it when we see each other we don’t hang together? Every notice that? I think last night hubby was a little jealous because I spent the evening talking to someone about different stuff.
I’m just way to open. LOL See you soon!
about 3 years ago
I’m on facebook lots too, being in a bit of a social blackhole because of my current location, facebook is great to stay in touch with people. It’s also got me in touch with a long lost relative and subsequently we’ve met up over Christmas. For something that’s often been seen as being a bit frivolous, it’s been dead useful to me.
about 3 years ago
I resisted Facebook for a while, but now it’s often the first site I check — and I check it often!
about 3 years ago
I do have Facebook. But am just beginning to work out how to use it. Am pretty sure I have a MySpace account. I just don’t have it bookmarked. Not sure why.
about 3 years ago
I have several accounts that I don’t use–Jaiku, MySpace, LinkedIn, and probably some others I’ve forgotten. For a while I would sign up for anything if I received an invitation, but it was too much for me to keep up with. When I join a service, I like to participate full-on. It was taking a big chunk of time for me to read and update all the accounts I had. Strangely, I feel guilty if I don’t keep my all my online accounts current. Now I limit myself to Twitter and my blogs.
None of the people I know online live close enough for me to meet them in person, so the “social” part is different for me. Once upon a time, I used the internet to avoid feeling isolated as a mom with young kids and no transportation. Now that the kids are older and can actually talk to me, I don’t need the internet for companionship as much. Nowadays it is more about finding people who share my interests since none of my local acquaintances do.
about 3 years ago
I’m on Facebook too, originally to keep track of all the new-ish Canadian family I have thanks to Bob, but friends found me, so I’m now more reliant on it than I was…
I don’t post often on LJ ‘coz I don’t think I really have as much to say as others + I’m a pretty private person.
I must say that once I feel a bond with someone, I tend to use the phone as a way of meeting (& Skype’s good too) as living Down Under again puts me far away from most non-Aussie family.
C