Tricia's Experience With Social Networking Sites

I have had limited experience with social networking sites outside of what we recently have done in class with one major exception: facebook. One of my younger classmates in the TC summer Intensive session this past July repeatedly encouraged me to join facebook, and early in August, as I sat in my 11th floor room at the New Residence seeking a diversion from writing final papers, I took the plunge. From the moment I hit the water, I got sucked into feverishly hunting for friends, joining social groups, championing causes (save the rain forest by having a "green space"), playing games (Parking Wars, anyone?), racing and feeding Fluff animals (that was done in a weak moment), expressing my baseball devotion to the NY Mets, flaunting my "flair", commenting on friends' walls, e-mailing anyone and everyone, sharing photos, chatting late at night with friends from around the world, linking to articles and videos of interest, and posting, POSTING, POSTING! It has been a great way to build relationships with some of my younger colleagues at my new job (they are my most frequent late-night chatting buddies), and get involved again with lives of friends I had lost touch with over the years. I have traditionally been a regular letter writer, so see this as a modern extension of that interest.

Additionally, I recently decided to join Twitter. I am still not very hooked on it, as I have only found one other of my friends who makes use of it, but plan to give it more time.