Prompt #11: Write about your favorite social network. Do you love Twitter? Facebook? Pinterest? Why?
Apologies at the beginning--my English is all tangled up...
I confess I'm grateful for the "push" to contribute to my blog daily, glad of the sense of regular putting out (and output) in this topsy-turvy time--my homeward journey, in which I regain the eleven lost hours and, if I make the two tight connections, get to Anchorage by the middle of Friday, starts this evening--but I also confess this is not one of my favorite prompts. The alternate prompt to the one I've featured required extolling one's favorite iPhone app related to our health condition. Well, I'm sure some helpful stuff will come out of that. And I actually have an iPhone and really appreciate it. However, most of my life I have lived far behind the technological leading edge and know very well what it's like to live in a society that expects you to have a certain technology and predicates everything on that state of entitled possession. So everyone has a cellphone, so suddenly no one can make a precise plan for where to meet. You don't have a cellphone and came all the way from another town, and it's "call when you get there," but everyone has a cellphone, right, so no one bothers to repair the payphones when they're out of order, so then what do you do? Wheedle passers-by for a quick call?
I'm just leery of focusing health activism on something so specific, not available to everyone by any means...and what about apps for other smartphones anyway?
Of course, if we get into branding, we're on the path all the way back to whether I'm an anorexic bipolar or a witch or a saint in the making, since I'm sure there are arguments that our diagnostic terms are brands of their own.
Anyway, I haven't had my iPhone long enough to explore all the wonderland it offers. As for social networks, the only one I really have spent time with is Facebook, so that'll have to be my pick. I like it first of all because I was invited to join (years ago) by a very dear real-life friend who had moved far away, and the core of my large base of friends is composed of dear real-life friends who are far away. That depth of contact/connection makes the experience real, sincere, and personal. The few FB friends with whom I don't have a strong personal connection are either friends of friends or are people from whom I can learn or with whom I might be able to share something.
The more I give Twitter my attention the more I like it. I can learn so much more, and share so much and do so much. I'm relatively new to it. Thanks to the HAWMC last year, I have a Pinterest account, but that's the extent of it. I'm not visual. And ze ma yesh...
Nu yalla chev're. N'daber b'karov...
