2.5

I have been the member of online communities for years now, let's go back to where it all began by taking a look at an older blog I made about a year ago...

My first social networking site began late in my middle school years with http://www.livejournal.com which I dub LJ. LJ has largely remained unchanged throughout my years with it, offering one of the most reliable blog systems I've ever used. I was on LJ before Myspace and its ilk hit the net. It was from LJ that I was persuaded to create a MySpace account, and from there, my Facebook. I've always been more interested in he ability to blog rather than applications or an immature "let's see who can get the most friends" system that MySpace is so famous for, both of which are reasons I approve of the new Facebook format.

I'm using Facebook currently as I have the most friends and readers who use it instead of LJ. What most of you probably do not realize is after I post these blogs/notes on Facebook I will typically copy and paste the non-chain mail/surveys notes to my LJ, as I did with MySpace until I became disgusted of the bureaucracy, immaturity, and uncountable phishing, virus, and porn bot intrusions. There were enough successful attempts that I had to permanently shut down one of my mail clients because of the sheer amount of pornographic Spam mail that made it around the spam guards. It was at that moment that I condemned MySpace and have boycotted it ever since. I am prepared to do the same to Facebook the moment it begins to do the same as I have LJ to fall back on.

It was from Live Journal that I developed one of my signature styles of my blog writing, most notably ending each note with "Cheers." It was LiveJournal that I started writing blogs for my own personal enjoyment and later personal improvement.

Cheers,

Eric Summers