Its been awhile

Well when things get busy the blog is the first to go. It would appear that I have not written a blog in awhile, so I guess I will take a poke at it. Not that I have much to say however, but I should comment on Facebook, as it seems to be sweeping the world like a crazy cyber-bug.

Facebook is a new social site on the Internet that allows people to interact in cyberville. It does this by providing each member with a personalized site which allows people to share photos and exchange messages. It does this all in a way that links personal networks to other personal networks, creating a very complicated web, but one that is easily navigated once one gets used to the platform. Once familiar with it, you are able to track down old friends, and search other peoples "networks" for people you may have met along the way. In essence it is much like msn's myspace, but is much more user friendly.

The name facebook says it all. Each person basically publishes their own personal "album" consisting of all their friends. And when you seeone that you know, on a friends on album, you are able to add them to yours. Once you do this, a message is sent to that person allowing them to confirm you as a friend, and then the dialogue can begin.

So why am I writing this? Nostalgia I guess. The Internet seems to be evolving so quickly, and the way it is beginning to incorporating cyber-communication is fascinating. I mean people are communicating more through emails, text messages, and platforms like facebook than they are talking to each other. Who would have thought the computer would take over something as simple as our own speach, and/or hearing to communicate.

I do not know where it is going, but i do know that within ten years I will look back on something like facebook the same way I look back on the game of pong. I remember when pong came out and i was fascinated by it. I played it for hours, just like i play with facebook for hours now. I know facebook will have the same fate. But what I do not know is where this facebook will take us. Pong led to Tank, and then to baseball, and then Galaga, and then Dungeons and Dragons, then Xbox. So where could face book take us. I would be stupid to even speculate. Once again I do not know where facebook will take us, but i do know that we are defiantly getting close to the stratosphere of cyberville, and things could get a little bumpy before we break orbit.

Other that facebook the world is still pretty much the same. I am still single, but not liking it as much as i normally do. I don't know why this is, but for some reason it just feels different. Probably because I am realizing that all the things I am trying to rid myself of, are the things that women were genuinely attracted to. But I will give this "newman" a few more months to try and find what it is looking for, and then I think I might have to go back to being the "oldman" that seemed to have no problems getting what he wanted, one so many different levels. Cuz getting laid without a conscience is definitely better than not getting laid with one.

Nooman out