Hey everyone! Here I am, having survived the great internet outage of 2015. It was just over a week, but it felt like forever. You can laugh at me if it all disappears again tomorrow, but right now I am readjusting to life online – SO MUCH STUFF ON THE INTERNET, SO LITTLE TIME. I figure it’s time for a ‘newsletter’, because in the weirdness that has been the last week, it has been hard to savour some of the non-whinging-about-having-no-internet related moments. I want to remind myself. Here’s what we’ve been up to lately… Spending more time talking to my Internet Service Provider’s call centre employees than I would have…
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Blog life interrupted.
image My internet is down. Kaput. My internet service providers are not very helpful (understatement of the year – you can find my occasional whining on Twitter and Facebook). It’s been a week now and I am realising just how much I rely on the internet. I blog, I have social media, my go-to stuff for life (recipes/life hacks) are on Pinterest. I stream my music through my devices, rather than storing it and taking up too much memory. I catch up on TV show episodes via streaming. Everyone wants an email address as a primary mode of contact. I shop online. My personal, private journal with all of my…
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Facebook: I love it but sometimes I don’t.
pic Facebook. It’s just this little social networking site. Don’t know if you’ve heard of it? It’s a place where your worlds collide. You can see into the lives of almost everyone you’ve ever (or even ‘never’) met, on a daily (or several times daily – let’s be honest) basis. This can be fun. It can be voyeuristic in the kind of way where someone has actually invited you to stalk them so it kind of makes it OK. Used wisely, it is a great way to connect with people instantaneously and to share your lives with those who may not always be geographically close to you. I recently…