When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.
I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.
I used to share my everyday life on the first social media platforms, and I had a pretty big following.
I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.
I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.
I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no idea about the person who was behind it and never get to communicate with them or ask them a question.
I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.