The Anderson Column

As my first blog post established, I’m really lightyears behind the trends when it comes to the Internet. I started blogging late and I’ve been stuck using the same version of AOL instant messenger for the last five or so years.

So it shouldn’t surprise you that I am hopelessly incompetent when it comes to modern internet phenomena like twitter. I’m not old or anything. I’m not a technophobe either, in fact I like nerding around with stuff a lot. It’s just that with these Internet memes turned amazing new technologies, I’m usually late to the hunt. I mean, it took me a long time to get facebook and I don’t have a myspace. Facebook happened because my wife thought I should have one.

Now I do have a twitter account – as you can see on this fine blog – and I am on facebook. Facebook has proven somewhat useful, I might add, because several people I don’t even remember going to school with have added me as their friend, so I am able to see what they’ve been up to. And that’s interesting. Beyond that, I’m still not sure what facebook is for if you’re into Mafia Wars or if you don’t have a desire to spam other people with your farming exploits. Twitter is a different beast. I think it provides a good challenge to write things in a limited format, but I have a feeling that twitter outgrew itself and became something that is too big to be what it was intended to be. Communication dies or becomes extremely one sided if the amount of participants is either too small or too big. I don’t know. I just keep posting random stuff there and as a result I get a lot of SEO spammers following me. Seems like a fun way to spend your afternoon.

In closing, I’m pretty sure my approach to social media is almost exactly the same as my father’s approach to PC’s in general. It’s complicated and I don’t really want to.

That would be me....