Week 3 task - My experience with New Communication Technologies.

I use New Communication Technologies to communicate with my friends and family on a very regular basis. Usually every day. However I was reluctant to become part of the social networking sites that I now rely on to stay in touch with the people I love.

When I first got the internet I was about 13 and I got MSN pretty soon after. Everyone at school had it but I soon bored of talking to people on the internet who I could just as easily call and I've never had any desire to talk to strangers on line. So my MSN account mostly went unused, as did the email account I'd set up.

Next came MySpace. Again everyone at school had it and loved it. I saw it often enough when I was at friends houses but I still didn't see why I'd want to comment on a friends profile then wait a day or so and hear back from them (espaecially because all my friends went to my school and in this time I could have just spoken to them in person). It all just seemed like a vainity game to me. At this point in my life this technologies weren't required to stay in touch with friends and family.

However, at the end of year twelve I finally caved to pressure from my friends to get a MySpace. I was moving to London and they posed a good argument: that I wouldn't be able to keep in touch easily without MySpace. They were right. In my first lonly week on the otherside of the world with no friends and family I relied on MySpace and my revieved MSN account to keep me connected to my loved ones.

Before long I found a group of friends in London that brought compainionship and a support system. Oh and Facebook. Not another one!

Again resisted at first. But eventually I relented and signed up to the newest account that I apparently nheeded to function as a social being.

Now I am back in Australia but once again in a new city. Facebook, MySpace and my old MSN email keep me up to date on the lives of my family, my highschool friends and my London companions.

I still don't talk to or add people I don't know on these sights. I have enough friends in the real world. I must admit though I don't have much concern for privacy on the internet. While only people I give permission to can see my profile I rarely think twice when a sight askes for my full name, D.O.B, address ect.

Oh and one of my classes this semester has required me to get Twitter. How will Twitter and my Blog effect my web presence and social life?