Recently, I found myself thinking about my personal history on the Internet, particularly as regards my various groups of online friends
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I have that song stuck in my head now. Well, it's competing with the Battle for Wesnoth music (possibly this is a sign that I have been playing that game too much recently).
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I must say it's been neat watching the way all the folks I knew waaay back when on the RFF (since Abbot Alf's orignal board!) change and grow and become awesome and unique and terribly, terribly cool at such a variety of different things.
But LiveJournal (and, to a lesser extent more recently, Twitter and Facebook) has definitely been more of a vehicle for that. There is a bit of a revival going on at the RFF though, what with the shiny new forums. I just haven't had a chance to jump in on any of those threads yet.
It seems like part of that might have to do with how the vast majority of us were either in high school or in our early 20s, it seemed. We've been watching each other grow up and move out into the Real World, and that's a heck of a lot of change and emotion and interesting developing happening right there.
. . . now I feel so young. I got my first email address when I was nine. I guess I didn't really interact with other people on the internet until 13 or so, though.
To be fair, my dad worked with computers in college and was a programmer or something when I was born, so we were moderately avant-garde as far as technology goes. Mind you, we also kept a typewriter on the front porch.
I use Tweetdeck to avoid the overwhelming amount of info thing. I've got one list for people-I-know-in-person-and-don't-want-to-miss-out-on-what-they've-got-going-on..... and then another for everyone else. Reading through the first list is pretty fast, even if I haven't been around for a couple days. If I've been away, or I'm not in the mood, I just clear all of the second list.
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...waste it writing amusing fiction with Miriam instead.
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Because clearly this is important.
(Now I sort of want to babble at you about story-things, but clearly context-less story babble is not a highly useful way to spend time. Anyway.)
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But LiveJournal (and, to a lesser extent more recently, Twitter and Facebook) has definitely been more of a vehicle for that. There is a bit of a revival going on at the RFF though, what with the shiny new forums. I just haven't had a chance to jump in on any of those threads yet.
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It really is neat.
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But I was 32 at the time.
The world is changing very quickly now, and it keeps changing faster and faster.
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