My digital foray

I am a Gen-Xer. I grew up in a time when personal computers were a new rarity and fascinating novelty. The closest I ever came was the Vic-20, now on display at the Smithsonian next to mimiograph. All my social networking took place at the local roller-skating rink. The world wide web was a twinkle in Al Gore's eye. In high school the mobile device of choise was the pager (available in every color of the rainbow!). I still don't fully understand why a fourteen to seventreen year old felt like they needed a pager like they were a doctor on call....Anyway, the whole point is that having grown up on the cusp of the digital age, in an era where these things seemed more a novelty as opposed to neccesity (and to be quite honest nerdy), a feel as i am being dragged to a party i was indifferent to attending in the first place. Given all that, during my short time in the electronic/digital/soical networking i have found these mediums to have an inherent value my indifference kept me form preceiving. I even saw blogging as a sort of self-agrandizing narcissistic exercise. This blog is about my experience, my trepidation and my love/hate relationship with all of this. I am coming along however. You can let go of me now.