Extraso­cial­ness

I am get­ting this thing set up to con­nect to all kinds of super social plat­forms. Face­book. Twit­ter. Tum­blr (on the advice of Jamie). Because of the fancy nature of Word­Press and RSS feeds and all man­ner of inter­net good­ness, I can send updates to all just by post­ing this, um, post. The plu­gin I’m using also updates MySpace, but does any­one use MySpace any­more? I haven’t tried the Face­book update yet, so we’ll see how that goes. Tum­blr updates via the site’s RSS feed, which will hap­pen in about 40 min­utes, so we’ll see how that goes, too.

I’m not sure how social I really need to be. Adding Tum­blr to the mix now seems a bit ridicu­lous. I’m already fairly addicted to Face­book and Twit­ter. I think I might be the only per­son I know who pretty much keeps Gmail, Face­book, and Twit­ter open — in that order, usu­ally — all the time. On mul­ti­ple com­put­ers, even. Hell, I’ve got them open on two com­put­ers that are sit­ting right next to each other. If I’m at home or at work, I’m always con­nected. I’ve not yet moved to hav­ing the phone with all the fancy inter­net appli­ca­tions yet, but that’s mainly because unlim­ited data access is still pretty expen­sive, not to men­tion the phones them­selves. I hope that if I ever have kids, they grow up in a world where access to the inter­net — which is not going away, or will be replace by some­thing else — is not nearly as expen­sive, if not free. Per­haps I’ll raise them in Fin­land just to make sure.

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