Come blog with me.

Before the days of Facebook, before I knew how to create online photo albums, and even before I could construct an “about me” that let potential friends and readers get an idea of who I am beyond stating all my best friends names along with the phrase “BBF’S” was my one and only mode of online communication with friends. Good old ICQ. For those of you who are unaware, ICQ is an old school form of AIM or MSN messenger, that to this day I believe only people within my hometown of Aberdeen knows even existed.

I bring up ICQ because this past weekend I reflected upon the capabilities of the web from then until now. Just for fun, I googled my own name, and sure enough there I was. I exist as an entity on the famous search engine Google. How cool, but yet how frightening. There I am, for future friends, employers, and just about anyone who comes across my name to look up with one click of the mouse.

Throughout the readings from Blogistan to online articles, it’s becoming more and more apparent to me the power of technology. Do we rule our world? Or has technology come to rule us?

As Professor Gill said last week in class, we are only in the transitional period right now. We are at the tip of the technology takeover and must keep in mind although particular days and instances may not follow us, the world wide web does. So in conclusion, let’s keep our pictures classy and our about me’s insightful, and let’s get together and come blog with me.

• Within the technology takeover that is upon how does one use the internet while still maintaining a sense of privacy?
• In what ways have internet communities such as Facebook and Myspace taken away from the forming of relationships within the world that exists outside of the web? How has it added to it?