I'm not really sure how I stand on social networking sites, I can't really say that I don't like them, but I'm far from 'in love' with them. I use facebook, in order to keep up with friends I otherwise couldn't but I would hardly describe myself as an avid user, my last update was after more than a month's worth of quiet. I could spend more time using the service, being a student with little more obligation than a dissertation, yet it never seems to me to present itself as an actual option.
As for services such as twitter, being a recent joinee (thank you Mr Danny Wallace for that word*), it seems that its a lot of fanfare over self indulgent, but then that could be due to my lacking of actual effort. Its not that I don't care about keeping in touch or connecting with people its more of the fact that I cherish solitude, being alone with just your own thoughts.
Is this a bad thing? Preferring the quiet of ones own mind rather than the tapping of annother's thought? Or is it a small section of me digging in my heels and resisting becoming one of everybody else. Would I prefer to be able to respond to the, now ubiquitous, question "Do you have 'x'? with a no, if only to satisfy a personal preference of side-stepping the norm.
I suppose, as is true of almost all things, the more you put in the more you get out. Thought at this time I am happy to be getting little out of it, if only to seem unique, as shallow as that may be.
*http://dannywallace.com/
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