media learn

Right here goes.....
I came very late to the social media party, and have learned very slowly about its uses and applications.  Let me start at the beginning for you.

Less than two years ago I bought my first computer(well second but the first disappeared on a train somewhere between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, more on that in a later blog) without really knowing why or what I was going to do with it.
Shortly after that my girlfriend (now wife *smileyface*) came to me and said she had got herself a Facebook.
I laughed, oh how I laughed.

Two weeks later I had a Facebook too.
My next purchase was an iPhone, and with it a Facebook app.  I could now keep up with all my friends on the go!! How awesome is that!!! However, it wasn't enough, I knew these people, I knew what they were up to anyway because I could talk to them in real life, I needed more.

So..Twitter.
Now I could keep tabs on famous people too. None of Facebook's need for accepting or requesting Friendships that potentially hamper my nosiness. All you have to do is click a little "follow" icon, and as long as you (to a certain extent) minded your Ps and Qs you could stalk your favourite twittarati to your heart's content.

Now I need to explain at this point that while I enjoyed looking at Facebook and Twitter I rarely posted anything on either site, I was an observer rather than a participant.  This has changed recently and I will go into the reasons for this in another post, but for now I am a Tweeter or whatever term is appropriate.

Thus this blog, 140 characters just sometimes isn't enough.  I will try to use this blog to talk about football, TV, books, or whatever comes into my mind at any point.  I hope it will improve my writing and allow me to articulate more clearly, and hey maybe my tweets will make more sense.

 Thanks for reading.