Tweets & Twits
Like a lot of bloggers, I am on several social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and on and on… I’m finding there are SOOO many things to think about with these sites. All the details is enough to drive this Gina crazy or at least more so than I already am!
Each one of them has their own quirks and qualities: MySpace appeals to a much younger crowd, or at least it used to. (Does anyone even use MySpace any more?) Twitter is so cute! I get these “tweets” from all these busy people I don’t know who are “following” me, kind of like stalking.
Facebook is probably the most popular right now, and by far the easiest and most fun of all the sites to use. But I wonder how much of my privacy I’m giving away? I guess that is the Gina in me again, wanting to Sashay Left away from the crowds.
I also wonder if Gina really wants to know every update from people she knew from college and even high school. Now Facebook uses the term “Friend” to define these folks, and I guess at one time I probably did consider them all friends. But life changes and people change, so do I really consider them “Friends?” I guess “People from my past who found me on this social networking site” wouldn’t fit very well on their web page.
I guess I bring attention to this, since I feel like I am a much different person from the one they knew. I grew up in a very conservative household and attended private, Christian schools for both high school and college. Even though I knew I was “different” then, I toed the conservative Christian line. I didn’t accept my homosexuality until many years later. Don’t get me wrong, I knew it was always there. Always.
But the life you live has an interesting way of shaping your views, right? Your environment does influence you, and I would even go so far to say it does impact your Sister as well. So all those Friends and Followers on all my social networking groups, say hello to ME!
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