On a final note, I get tired of explaining myself to people who are not socially connected. The “Where are you today and what did you do?” questions from my boyfriend get frustrating–I just want to tell him to read my feed!

It’s becoming a substitute for the good old sit down and talk in so many cases. You wouldn’t think it’d be possible to be lonely at university, but it is, because you’re surrounded by people who communicate primarily through facebook…

I like some forms of social media. Expect to see stuff. Especially blogs, because I can write in detail, like a letter but to everyone. That way people following my blog can have a good read of something valuable, much like a letter.

Facebook and Twitter? Naah. As mentioned above they are superficial and trivial. I hate facebook becoming an announcement of my life. I use twitter to follow announcements, i.e. I mostly follow interesting users that don’t have blogs. Basically I use it as RSS.

I’m currently trying to find a use for facebook. I’ve found a downloader for FB albums, so I can use it to steal photos taken by other people that I like. I’ve also decided to register for flickr, so I can share photos, screenshots etc rather than using twitpic all the time, and fb can import these. So facebook is going to act as my content dump, I think.

I’ve recently followed the allfacebook privacy guide and constrained everything on there. So if you write on my wall you’ll never see it, only I will. Etc. As for my profile, its next to empty.

If I have to live with these social networks, they’re going to work for me. End of.

Suffice to say that some conversations don’t go far beyond “How are you?”, which is rather sad.

I definitely write less substantial emails than I used to, as a rule. I used to enjoy writing longish emails to friends about everything I’d been up to. These days, I’d much rather pick up the phone, and my friends seem to feel the same way, as I don’t receive many such emails any more either.

As for the third option, there are fewer and fewer “normal” people all the time. :-) Those people you run into “away from the screen” are living more and more online, just as you and I are.