Delicious not so yummy

I went to Delicious, opened an account and added a few of my bookmarks. So now I can access them from any computer.

All I need now is to get connected at home because really i must be an anti-social, luddite at heart, to persist in not being connected at home; to persist in not needing all this information at my fingertips 24/7.

Google reader just a tool

I think google reader is fine for people who spend a lot of time on the net. I added some of my favourite sites on there and my blog. I don't know how much i would use it - not being connected at home and not feeling in any way underprivileged for not being so, i won't be using it much. For work it could be useful to add the sites we used frequently such as SCIS and ABC sales but it doesn't take much time to get onto those sites using bookmarks and the latter sends us updates anyway.

Courage to resist - Free Bradley Manning

I really don't like Facebook. I went back to it and reactivated my account - I refuse to use my real name. And in the description I wrote, for what its worth -

Free Bradley Manning - go to Courage to Resist [courage@riseup.net]. Facebook? What's the big deal? New opiate of the masses. I'm just researching. See what you guys are doing. Being paid to study what the cowardly new world of social networking is about. I'll stick with emails, books, tv and films. Oh and occasionally talking to people too. Why make some Californian geeks and multinationals richer? Why put up with the irrelevant and incongruous?

Because it feels like an assault - all the the tacky ads; the tackier self promotion; the suggested friends - just because they happen to be 'friends' of people i happen to have emailed in the last few years; its all form and very little or pathetic content. No thank you - can't wait to deactivate myself again. My space - what is it apart from advertising? I went to the YPRL youth space's stream and found very little of interest. I went to library hack and couldn't find any entries in their mish mash whatever.

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Not really my library thing

I returned to Library thing and added some more books. An interesting site that i could spend a lot of time on but essentially its rather lonely and i prefer my book group. I could email someone from Library thing but i just wouldn't make the first move. I don't know the etiquette and then again what's the point of emailing someone in the US or Finland - I'm well over my penfriend days and I've got cousins all over the world I rarely email. Thanks to social networks its easier to make lots of connections and have a multitude of online relationships. I tried to get into Flickr but it was blocked by the education department.
Regarding the N generation ad it entreats us to join the conversation; it tells us we can't beat them, we may as well join them and it promises us it will be fun.