Blogging...again

The lecture on Friday completely went over my head and I have to say I was bored out of my mind because of it, but that's not why I'm writing, no, I'm here to answer the tutorial questions so onwards we go!

I only communicate with my friends and family by phone, and by that I mean my mobile, or good ole fashion face-to-face talking. I think the only person I ever really talk to via email is my dad. Anyway I find that texting is the most common form of conversing with those I love, or like - or are forced to put up with. Why? Simple, I can rarely get through to people when I call, so I find that if I leave a message (one that doesn't cost money to check) then I usually get a reply sometime that week, or day if I'm lucky.

I rarely, if ever, use my facebook account. People usually have to call or text me just to tell me to check something on there, this is simply because I have no interest in keeping tabs on other people. Actually, I only have it to keep in touch with family that I never communicate with - useful huh?

But back to the phone, like most people (I assume) I started using a mobile in high school. I can't remember if I got one because my parents thought I needed one or if it was because all my friends had one and I successfully annoyed my my mother into submission. I look back now and wonder why it was so bloody important when I rarely had the money to buy credit - by default I barely used the thing.

I find that privacy is constantly on the forfront of my mind when I'm surfing the net especially if I'm asked question, it just makes me wonder if these 'people' are really using it for the reasons that they claim they are. I suppose it could just be a personal trait and I just don't feel the need to spill my thoughts and every action on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Who would want to know what I did or didn't eat that morning or what I got up to the day before? Better yet, who's lonely and isolated enough to care? Stalkers I suppose - mass murdering sickos maybe, hell even advertisement joints that throw annoying, repetitive, adds at poor unsuspecting facebookers  - anyway my point is that your privacy can be so easily compromised by revealing tiny details about your life (routine, frequent hang outs, local area codes), if someone's paying enough attention to you it wouldn't be that hard to track you down. A lot of people are...silly (I'm putting that nicely) with the way they throw their details around.

Needless to say I have no friends from the net that I've never met before and I'd like to keep it that way, call me old fashioned but I like to know my friends are real people and not desperate creeps that scream and melt at the first sight of sunlight. If I meet people face-to-face I can at least get a feel for them and make my judgement on who they actually are - not the persona they use when they use the net to 'talk' to me. The friends (the ones I actually like talking to) I have on facebook are people I know or have actually met. I suppose I'm wary but I trust my instincts and I can't read someone as well through a program or app.

So I've done my time for now, be seein' you'll next time

~*Cass*~