THE SECOND WEEK

Well hello again bloggers,

Im back...This week I was directed to write a blog on how I use New Communication Techniques to communicate with my friends and family. Well I guess my main source of online communication to my friends and family would be msn messenger or myspace. I rarely chat to family online as most of my relatives are computer illiterate and would barely manage to find the power switch on a computer so I'll just stick to friends.

Of my msn contacts I only know about 20% as I used to add anyone and everyone when I first was intoduced to the amazing chat program at 13 years of age. Now I just can be bothered to go through the hundred and something contacts and delete the ones I dont chat to. I believe it is very different chatting to someone you have never met in real life compared to a friend you have known for years as you have so many things to ask or tell that they dont know where as chatting to someone you already know usually entails deciding what to do on the weekend or telling them anything exciting that happened during the day.

My most common use of communicating through the internet would be myspace which is made up from people that I was friends with from school or work along with the occasional band. Myspace was sort of a phenomenon at high school and was something to do between cramming for tests or finishing assignments at 1 in the morning. Posting photos and recieveing comments or messages was exciting.

My main use for msn or myspace is only social and is generally something I do when im bored at home or am procrastinating about assignments. I was influenced to join them mainly because it was considered "cool" at the time. These days I see it as more of a convenient way to communicate to my friends and share photos.

I think thats enough writing for now hopefully I have answered the required questions somewhere in those paragraphs.

Goodbye for now :)