A social experiment

I have long been a supporter of technology and progressing forward in both development and usefulness.  I am a longtime nerd and have seen it change from having text only to having poor formats and borders and awkward pictures.  I've seen HTML rise and fall and come back all over again as a legitimate thing.  I've watched browsers come and go.  I've seen websites take off and then fail miserably.  It has been a wild ride in the last 20 or so years.

I am going to do something that I have trouble doing.  I am going to adapt these things into my life.  I've avoided social media pretty well.  I might check Facebook daily, but normally just once after work before I jump online.  I have never been active on Twitter.  I'm still trying to figure out if getting into Tumblr is even right for me.  I've started using something called Keek.  I came out and had some very harsh things to say about Instagram and Vine.  I've decided that instead of simply hating those things because of what they stand for, I need to hate them because they are epic time-wasting pieces of shit, too.  The only way to prove this is to take the dive.

During this time I am going to hole out my own niche in these places.  I've locked down my Facebook and accepted ALL of the friend invites I had waiting (50, seriously, WTF).  I've jumped headfirst into Twitter and have followed damn near everything I am interested in.  The Keek thing is something that is more specific to my wife.  She uses it because she saw it on.... Keeping up with the Kardashians.  Le sigh.

I'm going to post updates.  I'm going to retweet.  I'm going to record and post videos.  I am going to take advantage of the many forms of social media.  Hopefully during this time I can also manage to find some sort of meaningful purpose for all of this.