Monday, July 04, 2011

Working at home since the heat in my office is a bit too much for me. Reviewing student papers and grading them, done about 6 or 7 and 4 more to go.
It's a bit cloudy today but still warm regardless.

Had a random thought about how splintered people have become on the Internet. I guess it's similar to TV back in the day. When I grew up everyone watched the some TV programs and movies since there simply weren't many TV stations. Then cable TV exploded and people started watching whatever.
When we went online globally there were chatrooms and a few chat programs like ICQ, msn messenger, aim. Nowaday every email account and social network has its own chat feature so people have spread out over all of them. Trying to keep up with people and/or chatting with them has become rather arduous.
While social networks are competing and trying to obtain a monopoly I don't think any of them will ever eradicate the others. Leaving us with all the splintered mess.

I'm pretty splintered too. Skype, msn/windows live messenger, 5 or 6 email accounts, photobucket, blog, youtube. Still glad I haven't joined the Facebook madness... (yet?)
I rather like having this blog. There are no ads anywhere. No idea if anybody reads my crap but it's always nice to have an outlet. No peer pressure to "Like" someone's posts haha. No limitation on how many pics and vids I post on my photobucket/youtube.
Yesterday I got some comments on 1 photobucket vid from complete strangers. Funny how that works.

Enough rambling, time to find some crumbs for lunch.

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