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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

New To Technology

I'm new to the whole Blogging concept. This is my disclaimer, by the way.

First a little about my situation. In the past two months I have begun to try getting "up to speed" with the technological advances in the internet. And let me tell you its no easy task. I first began with Myspace, yes thats right I still use it. I have found alot of people despise Myspace, let me tell you it is by far the best introduction I could have asked for in terms of sheer help. Most would say they hate this or that about it, I say how many people whom are for all intents and purposes computer illiterate, can log onto myspace, change backgrounds, add music, and change pictures. People whom you would never be able to get in contact with otherwise people from high school or from your home town. Now again in not saying Myspace is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but how many casual users are going to switch networking sites just because a new one comes along. They will not, period. Once the new site becomes the social standard then they will look into it, but not before.
Now the next thing I actively looked into was Twitter. I found out about it through Newsweek, of all places. At first, I was not impressed by any means. And I spent alot of time on the public timeline. All i did was add people who seemed funny, or said something that interested me. Slowly as the amount of people I followed grew, I began to glimpse other sites that could keep me more informed. I was also introduced to things that I had never heard of. Wikipedia became my friend. HTML, PHP, Blog, Technorati, Digg, Geocache, Linux, Unix, and many many others, I had to learn what these were so that I could ask what to do with them. It was very frustrating. Luckily there were those who were kind enough to help a little even just in passing. Even now just trying to see if i can post a blog and if it suits me, I am scared. I have no real experience doing it and I am not a expert on any subject matter. So all i can do is try and read alot more.