A couple of days ago, my daughter left her MySpace page behind for the cleaner more direct pages of Facebook. After setting up her account, she happened upon my sister's Facebook page and made contact with her. Who knew? Naturally, she let me know so I made a Facebook page (I had successfully avoided the MySpace temptation) and now all three of us have another--I must admit easier--connection. I'm on the west coast, my daughter is in NYC, and my sister is in Florida. We've linked our Flickr accounts to our Facebook pages and are busy adding various applications. I opted for Calvin and Hobbes quotes while my daughter went for an application that lets her list the cities in the world she has visited.
Tonight I found the blog of a friend who is travelling in South East Asia for an extended period of time. I happily determined that he was not on the plane that recently crashed in Thailand. He's telling us astonishing things about himself as he sits in Thai wireless cafes---things I can't imagine him telling us if he were here in Santa Cruz.
My experience with social networking so far has been with people I already have a relationship with--friends and relatives--and I think our connections have broadened because of them. I don't have any solely internet friends but I'm tempted sometimes to connect with other printmakers out there---I haven't done it because I'm already overloaded with inspiration and feedback from printmakers I see once a week.
Here's an interesting article about social networking among people who only know each other online. Lots to think about.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/17/rosen.htm
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