something is wrong with me
i don’t know what’s gotten into me lately. i decided a couple weeks ago that i was sick of paying $120 a month for my blackberry. i loved the device, it’s a great, stable, awesome platform. unfortunately, i found myself realizing that i was barely using any of its functionality. i rarely used the GPS because bb maps and google maps are too slow over EDGE. i rarely used the browser because it choked on jscript or would randomly freeze during page loads. i religiously used push email. i didn’t really use any calendar features and i didn’t like how the more useful stuff was only available to people using BB enterprise server. After thinking about it for a bit, i embarked on a trip to the at&t store on 7 bar loop to take a look at what consumer wunder-devices were available, hoping i’d find something to replace my blackberry. i went to the store knowing i didn’t want an iphone. well, after dicking with all the devices in the store, i found the iphone was the most intuitive and had the most features that i wanted (including a push mail/calendar/contacts capability via mobileme) it also supported 3g data, which i’d missed since i got rid of my rizr (v3xx) in 2007. i bit the bullet and bought an 8gb iphone. since i bought it, i’ve found myself using many more of the functions day-to-day.
the second and third wtfs stem from my hatred for social networking. i don’t know why, but i suddenly was interested in updating my facebook account and using it. cadie had told me i needed a single presence online, and facebook was it. for the longest time, i didn’t really touch it. i would log in once a month or whatever and that was it. anyhow, i ended up using it much more often. i talked to a friend about the apps he has on his iphone and he’d mentioned tweetie, which uses the twitter API and runs on the iphone. twitter, i thought, is the most narcissistic of the social networking/web2.0 sites because it focuses on what “you” are doing. my logic was that no one gives a shit what anyone else is doing, let alone what i’m doing. anyway, i looked at a couple of twitter pages of people i know and people i don’t know and decided it wasn’t as bad as i’d originally thought. it’s sort of interesting, actually, to see what people do during the day. i guess that might be part of the allure. i dunno.
yeah, i think i’ve jumped the shark with a trifecta of web2.0 crap. what’s wrong with me?
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOOOOSION
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