I am a goon from the caverns of mars

Hey rplers,
I now have an account on facebook and myspace. I couldn't bring myself to add any real profile information or pictures to any of them. I can see how this technology could benefit a person, but what can i say. I am a weiner to the nth degree.

I liked how facebook just gave you a bunch of friend options up front. It was freaky how many people they knew i know. I'm not sure if they just somehow check the history of your e-mailing or the listed contacts in your e-mail account or what, but they were coming up with people left and right. I won't lie. I hate everything about this stuff. Maybe it's the fact that I'm doing it at one of our public terminals during open hours, maybe it's the fact that everyone else around me would dedicate their entire day to this if we didn't now have two hour blocks on the computers. Or maybe i'm just a fuddyduddy. or maybe i just love that word. I think it's a mixture of all this combined with the fact that I'm sort of cavemanny about any emerging technology. Honestly, I don't think i'm the better off for it. I keep thinking of the original video we had to watch about the monk being deterred by the "new technology" of the book. I feel like that was an accurate parallel on a lot of levels. But what can i say. It's my honest, gut reaction to this stuff.

http://www.myspace.com/nickdemske
I think this is the link to my facebook page, if that's something you can even do (i think terrence might have explained that it's not):
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1349332797

ok. that's enough nonsense for now. It's strange. I've heard so many good things about this stuff. Some of my poet friends that have published manuscripts told me that more people end up buying books off your myspace page than off the publisher's website. there's got to be something to that. but really all i'm thinking of is the stories about people not getting jobs because the employer checked out their myspace page and there was inappropriate stuff on it, stuff like that. I really can't be trusted to act right in a public forum that seems private like this. I think i might hold off for now, but would like to be able to work with these programs in the future.

Till next time,
poo