New Social Media

After teaching the New Media Technology course at Cal Poly SLO for the last two quarters, I have become acutely aware of how much social media you or I can join. For example, you can "tweet" anywhere. I'm now LinkedIn, have an Epsilon portfolio, two blogs, a wiki, and am working on my web page. I don't use Facebook, and I rarely chat. But, I am constantly looking at new apps for web 3.0. That last sentence seems like jargon to me, and I'm sure most of you understood exactly what I meant.

We have entered another new Internet arena where it helps to be "caught" in a big web of peers as my 63 year old mother describes her time on Facebook. She now knows when her ex-husband has his brandy and goes to bed. Yikes. That might just be too much information for me.

I spend so much time just joining the social Internet groups that I "should" because someone told me they would help me network that I do not have time to read the stuff I need to for work. I'm now writing random thoughts because I need another post on my blog...who will read it. Most everyone is probably busy signing up on the next big social Internet site.

I'm finishing this entry while listening to my 10 year old talk to his Nintendog Shadow on his DS. He too has found the joy of Gmail, cheat-sites for the DS, and the best Wi-Fi area in the house. Of course the closer you are to the wireless modem the faster it all works. Oh, gata go I see a chat bubble......