Comments for Back Mountain Design | Actor Websites http://www.backmountaindesign.com Web Design for Creative Folks, specializing in websites for actors, films and theatre companies. Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on What does “The Social Network” mean to you? by Jenny Webster http://www.backmountaindesign.com/what-does-the-social-network-mean-to-you/#comment-30 Jenny Webster Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:01:35 +0000 http://www.backmountaindesign.com/?p=160#comment-30 I am that person who will remember some person from my past --even if it was a fleeting relationship (friendly or romantic) and wonder what they are doing now... So I look them up. I have decided that I am a friend collector :) --hoarder?? For the most part my old Army and HS friends are found by me, added, and then filed away. It's nice to know that I have found them, know where they are, and can reach out when I want to. BUT my time mgmt skills are hideous, so that is usually never. For the most part I find I use it to connect with my home-bound, or otherwise distant friends. The ones I "talk with" the most are my fellow autism parents. These people get me best --and they are all over the globe. So social media is a way for us to find a little empathy and to bounce ideas off each other, b/c we can't find that anywhere else. The interwebs and all it's tubes have found a way to connect like-people over far distance. When I was pregnant with Liam in 04 I found a message board full of moms just like me. We have kept in touch. We get together as much as we can too --which doesn't seem often enough. In one way it is fascinating and awesome --instead of finding a handful of local people I can "kind of" relate to, I can find a crap ton of people that are just like me... but then there is the depressing part, I can't hop in the car to go see them. Online interactions are many things... but they are not human contact. I am that person who will remember some person from my past –even if it was a fleeting relationship (friendly or romantic) and wonder what they are doing now… So I look them up.
I have decided that I am a friend collector :) –hoarder??
For the most part my old Army and HS friends are found by me, added, and then filed away. It’s nice to know that I have found them, know where they are, and can reach out when I want to.
BUT my time mgmt skills are hideous, so that is usually never.

For the most part I find I use it to connect with my home-bound, or otherwise distant friends. The ones I “talk with” the most are my fellow autism parents. These people get me best –and they are all over the globe. So social media is a way for us to find a little empathy and to bounce ideas off each other, b/c we can’t find that anywhere else.

The interwebs and all it’s tubes have found a way to connect like-people over far distance. When I was pregnant with Liam in 04 I found a message board full of moms just like me. We have kept in touch. We get together as much as we can too –which doesn’t seem often enough.

In one way it is fascinating and awesome –instead of finding a handful of local people I can “kind of” relate to, I can find a crap ton of people that are just like me… but then there is the depressing part, I can’t hop in the car to go see them. Online interactions are many things… but they are not human contact.

]]> Comment on Hollywood, Twitter and Scott Pilgrim by jtarbogast http://www.backmountaindesign.com/hollywood-twitter-and-scott-pilgrim/#comment-12 jtarbogast Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:44:42 +0000 http://www.backmountaindesign.com/?p=126#comment-12 DUDE! Wish I would've known you were here. You shoulda called, man. You just shoulda called. DUDE! Wish I would’ve known you were here. You shoulda called, man. You just shoulda called.

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