I've finally started my proper blog, to let the world...well, anyone interested...my thoughts, as rambling and incoherent as they are. This is my first non-review blog, and it makes me wonder why the sudden obcession with blogging. The internet has been here for a while now, and it's only recently, with the advent of Web 2.0, that blogging, social networking and so on have become widely popular. Evolving too - it's considered unfashionable to have a Myspace page these days, with Facebook ruling the roost. Why though?
Is it that we have this underlying, subconcious need to let everyone know our thoughts and opinions? Are we trying to do what we did in High School, standing out from the crowd while still trying to fit in?
Tweeter puzzles me. So many people, celebrities included, have jumped on the Tweeter bandwagon, and people follow "tweets" as they're known, just to see what their friends and celebrities are up to. Does it actually matter though, to know what Stephen Fry had for breakfast this morning, or that he's stuck in a lift? Amusing perhaps, but "Donna is at work" is hardly fast breaking news. Or perhaps I'm being cynical. I've got a Facebook page. I don't tweet, but I do use instant messenger programs to talk to my friends. I do try and make my Facebook posts at least interesting, or amusing, though I'll admit to posting a bit too many photographs of my new degu's (more on those later). With having a Blackberry, and just today, an iPhone (more on that later too) I can update on the move, and get updates from my friends on the bus. Are we just trying therefore to become more connected with our piers? What happened to a simple phonecall? Welcome to World 2.0.
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