InMyFaceSter

I'm not what one would call an early adopter when it comes to technological trends. I've never tried to keep up with the latest gadgets and gizmos. It seems that just a few weeks after I catch a trend it is replaced by a new technology.

And I'm a pretty low tech girl--the kind of girl who still prefers to go into the bank and interface with a teller rather than with an ATM.

Luckily, I've got several technophiles in the family. Most of the time one or another of them will have acquired the latest big thing and I'll get the benefit of seeing it without investing in it, which offers support to the theory that it's not what you have but who you know that gets you the furthest.

Which brings me to networking. And internetworking.

Linkedin

My Space

Facebook

Friendster

Any one of these is plenty to keep one occupied for excessive amounts of procrastination.

I have resisted the peer pressure to become one with the Borg of the InMyFaceSter crowd. No one really needs to know everything I'm thinking and feeling and doing at every moment of every day. And there are many, many things that simply do not need to be preserved for posterity for everyone with access to a web browser. And props to my boy Stephen Colbert for his twitter comment on the Today Show.

Facebook recently marked the milestone of having signed up 200 million users. Some people find that cool. I find it creepy. Facebook is forever. Not to mention some instances of identity theft and scams. And the potential of future employers easily unearthing more than you might like them to know about you. And even the most outgoing and energetic networker is subject to online sociability fatigue. And early adopter fatigue.

So please excuse me for sitting out the InMyFaceSter revolution. Yes, it's awkward to be the wall flower. But you go do your thing. I'll catch up at the next wave of super-hyper-nano fun.