World wide rabbit warren
Am I the only one who is quickly getting over the internet's much touted social networking component.
Every other week I seem to get an email invitation from one friend or another to join their online community.
Interestingly, I've never been invited to the same community twice.
No two of my online friends are members of the same sites and I've accumulated all sorts of cyber clutter.
So far I've got a Tblog, a Photobucket account, a YouTube channel, another photo space with someone called Ringo, and an ICQ number, as well as accounts with Wayn, sms.ac and others whose names escape me.
Oh yeah ? I'm also a member of an online skateboarding forum.
Anyway it always starts out the same - an email arrives I click on a link and am dragged of to some far flung corner of cyberspace where it's said I can organise my life, meet like-minded people share my photos and generally do lots of things I didn't realise I needed to.
These networks know what strings to pull to get me.
I joined one to see photos of my nephew/godson and others to catch up with long lost friends who are now based overseas.
Most recently I joined some kind of online address book site because the introductory email suggested that if I didn't reply the friend who sent me the invite might think I didn't like her.
Is my life more organised?
Well I might have a lot of cyber cupboards, but for the most part they're empty.
Instead of one address book with all my contacts in it I have lots of address books with one contact in them.
Maybe I'm being old fashioned, but this doesn't seem like an improvement.
Every other week I seem to get an email invitation from one friend or another to join their online community.
Interestingly, I've never been invited to the same community twice.
No two of my online friends are members of the same sites and I've accumulated all sorts of cyber clutter.
So far I've got a Tblog, a Photobucket account, a YouTube channel, another photo space with someone called Ringo, and an ICQ number, as well as accounts with Wayn, sms.ac and others whose names escape me.
Oh yeah ? I'm also a member of an online skateboarding forum.
Anyway it always starts out the same - an email arrives I click on a link and am dragged of to some far flung corner of cyberspace where it's said I can organise my life, meet like-minded people share my photos and generally do lots of things I didn't realise I needed to.
These networks know what strings to pull to get me.
I joined one to see photos of my nephew/godson and others to catch up with long lost friends who are now based overseas.
Most recently I joined some kind of online address book site because the introductory email suggested that if I didn't reply the friend who sent me the invite might think I didn't like her.
Is my life more organised?
Well I might have a lot of cyber cupboards, but for the most part they're empty.
Instead of one address book with all my contacts in it I have lots of address books with one contact in them.
Maybe I'm being old fashioned, but this doesn't seem like an improvement.