omg you actually expect me to do work?

Write a post about how you use new communication technologies to communicate with your friends and family. Some things to consider:

• Do you have friends whom you only know from the internet and have never met in person? Is this different to people that you know in person? Describe the difference.
• How long have you been using these communication technologies?
• What influenced you to start using these particular technologies?
• Is privacy an issue for you when using new technologies? (How do you deal with issues around privacy?)

So this is how it's going to be huh?

me answering a bunch of questions in the hope I will say something alluding to my wonderful skills of listening in class. Fair enough I can play that game.

Q.1. Yes I have friends that I've met online and have no real chance of ever meeting(I like it that way) they read what I want them to read and vice versa. They are the perfect friends. Of course they don't actually beat being able to go out with my other friends, the ones that I've accumulated from more human situations, like school and parties. I find it somehow reassuring that I can sit and rely my days events to total strangers and that they seem to care (main word being seem) but then maybe that's just me, although I highly doubt it. the difference between the two is that people I've met in real life know the real me they see me in person they see when I have food stuck between my teeth or completely embarrass myself and somehow that makes us closer. people online see me the way I wish I was and I get all the compliments I need to feed my ego from the safety of my computer chair.

Q.2. How long have I been using Communication Technologies??? umm good question, I have vague memories of talking to relatives over the home phone around the age of 4 (by talking I mean them talking and me going "mmmhhhmmm, love you too Nan." For as long as i can remember my family has had a computer. That being said until I was in grade four it was a very OLD computer that was hooked up to a dot matrix printer, only took floppy disks and the most exciting game on it was wheel of fortune. Then we upgraded and what do you know we connected to the internet waiting for that dialtone to finally connect was the longest minutes of my thus far short life. By grade six i hade my very first hotmail address. Oh My God. Welcome to the Big Wide World. That being said I had a total of 23 contacts, including one of my aunties, my cousin and all the people I knew from school who were as technologically advanced as I was. After that is was a virtual landslide of websites and email addresses. I'm now 17, have had four different email addresses and 3 separate blogs. By the time I joined myspace in grade 8 every person I met I kept in contact with via the web. So in a nutshell I've been using communication technologies since I could type and think of myself as important enough that other people would want to read what I have to say.

Q.3. I think I started talking online more than in real life because I like to think about what I say before I say it. It gives me an opportunity to edit my stream of conversation before the other party reads it. I also find my voice to be sometimes annoying. Annal retentive? you may say. maybe. so what?

Q.4.Oh yeah last one!!! privacy has never been an issue for me. most probably because it's all I've ever heard since I first logged on. from parents and teachers, "don't give out any details about yourself, that innocent 14 year old girl could be a 48 year old guy with halitosis." Ok I get it. so basically I've never had any problems because I've never been stupid enough to say, "hay person I've never met I'll meet you in the alley at 4 in the morning." I know, I know I'm being a bit harsh what about the spammers. Still never been stupid enough to enter my bank details into a website that has the banner of a bank that I don't belong to. But seriously i think I've stayed safe mostly because I'm so cynical, I see "free ipod" and think " you're an idiot" but then that's not just when I'm online.

Now see, I could have written a post that seemed like I'd answered all the questions because I'd wanted to and had not been asked to. But that's just not how I roll.

The End. For now.