Make a case for Tumblr or technorati

No. You don't need it.

Twitter is easy to keep up with if you have Twitterrific. But I have almost abandoned everything other than SG, AIM and a few other tech forums. My Facebook and MySpace accounts have long been abandoned.

The idea of mining abandoned profile pages and collecting some kind of data from them gives me a total academic boner.

you need a tumblr.

so you can follow Emma at carlovely.com. clearly.

How about write a column in a newspaper? Or maybe start your own publishing company?

Writing a book, or in an actual journal is a less attention-bent way of self expression.

Just my two cents. I agree with Paul. You don't need any internet expression outlet, unless you pay for it.

The more of these sort of social sites a person gets on, the more drama-ridden and complicated their life becomes. I felt quite happy when I deleted my myspace page, and I've felt slightly sick ever since I activated facebook (although the only people I've added on there are family and a very few choice friends from real life). I'm not even sure I'm going to renew my SG account when it comes due next May.

Now, it can be argued that there is only as much drama as each individual allows in, I realize that. But I certainly did not ask for all the crap that has happened on the myriad of sites I joined (and later deleted).

Going fad-crazy on this site, that site, every site, is pretty much meaningless. People, very often, have the same friends list on each, and the advantages of one site over the next are pretty much non-existant. SG is about the only one I can think of that has an actual advantage (teh nekkids), but really how much difference is there between facebook, myspace, twitter, Tumblr (whatever that is) and all the rest?

I signed up for facebook a few months ago for some reason I can't remember. I was trying to look at someone's page or something. I made the mistake of using my real email. People found me. I now have two facebook friends and 6 friend requests. Or at least, I did last I checked. That's without doing anything to the page. It's an empty page.

I find that I have no trouble staying in touch with those whose company I actually enjoy, facebook or no. Those whose company I don't enjoy, however, have an easier time getting in touch with me because of facebook. As a result, I've decided I don't need facebook at all.

(Though one of my facebook friends is a crush of mine, and it's nice to be able to see all her pictures and sigh dreamily as hearts float around my head. Before anyone asks, no, I haven't. And I won't. You're disgusting.)

I sort of said that in my second paragraph. Maybe my experiance was unique.

Why me?

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thanks for the new addiction ....

Girls on Bicycles! 8)