Technically Not So Technical

“You seem to be everywhere online,” my friend Eric said to me a few days ago after taking the plunge of creating a long overdue Facebook account for himself.

I really didn’t think about it until he said it. But as of late I have been, to the point where I was offered a writing gig because of this particular blog. (Although I haven’t done that many entries in this blog in comparison to my old blogs brought here from my old page, I have received emails from several people that like how I put my thoughts down. As a writer, I take that as a HUGE compliment because as an Average Joe Some, I always feel like my thoughts are forever erratic on page. Even more so on this since I pretty much write everything from the top of my head hence the blog title and bio.)

At any rate, I am making my prescence known online

Why is this remotely a big deal? Aren’t you online and a billion others online as well? Hell, for anyone to read what I wrote had to be in some way a member of the online community?

To answer Question 1: No
Question 2: Yes
Question 3: Yes

To know me is to know that I am the least tech savvy person you will ever meet.

I am a typist. Not so much a web head that can do almost everything imaginable under the sun other than generic web browsing, and even that is restrained by the proverbial leash around my neck to keep me inside of the ground-deep fence surrounding my virtual backyard. Mostly because of my lack of concentration in this wide open word to research things that will be relevant to me in the far off future like retirement planning and annuity plans.

I mentioned this in a previous entry that my turnaround came about where a family member hit me up on Facebook after a year or more of having the account. Beforehand I pretty much converse with an old coworker and an old girlfriend once every six months. After that though, I got a revelation. I thought it would be a great idea to connect with people from the past and present (hence the reason for the entire website, I know!). Well, last month, with all this connecting with I thought I would reach out to people that I admired within the realms of the arts (any) and various other communities I am apart of.

I have to admit that I n ever put much stock in the Six Degrees of Separation Theory until I came across people I knew who knew people that I have admired and respected from afar for many years along with people who are like me, striving beyond themselves to make a conscious effort to get where they need to go, to make their mark on society. Which for me brings much needed relief in the cold psychological world of only black and only white; only half and only have not; leaving virtual no room (or rather no showing) of the gray or the aspiring (other than some reality show, and even this it is quite questionable how much they done on their own).

Saying all that, it is amazing to me that I went from just sending off emails to connecting my Facebook with my Twitter with my blog; my ISeeColor account with my TraderPlanet account,etc in just a few weeks. With my motivation being that I might can use my many networking connections in the near future. And even with that being said, I’m still in the slow lane because I am not married to a Crackberry (Blackberry or BarackBerry) or a Kickstand (Sidekick) or a IPhone.

So wish me luck as I try to find a car that will let me move further over into the far left lane.