For the past three years, I've gone through the traditional cycle of an average Myspace user, beginning with fantacism, then fading to enthusastic followed by interested, and ending with apathy. I still log in to check my messages occassionally and see how my friends are, but it's not something I devote much time to.
About two years ago, I signed up for a Facebook account under my pen name in order to see what all of the fuss was about with this "other" social application (hardcore geeks spare my your criticism; I know there are many out there, but few have had the social/cultural impact of Myspace and Facebook). I found one "friend," a former mission buddy, and Sharise didn't recognize the penname account so she ignored my friend name. Within a day or two, I had all but forgotten that I even had the account until a week and a half ago.
One morning I woke up, decided to try something new that day, and I logged in. I began by adding a request to Sharise to add me to her friends list, and then promptly began typing in the names of every friend, mission companion, college buddy, or anyone else I could think of that I had lost contact with but was interested in catching up on.
I was amazed as, for the first time in years, I was actually able to locate people, and through them more people, and it spiderwebbed from there until within less than two weeks, I now have over 80 friends, people that I have a lot of good memories with that I am still interested in even if we aren't in daily contact any more.
This leads up to the fact that I've been doing three years of blogging on a completely different site. I've seen the format for sites like Blogger and Blogspot in the past, and obviously they're superior to Myspace's format. It's what they do, it's their specialty. For the benefit of those who are interested in reading my rants, thoughts, life updates, or any other crap I might come up with. I thought I'd start by posting some of my blogs from my other profile and go from there.
