As I sat at my computer wondering what to blog about, I remembered that I have this ethnography to work on about my chosen social networking site. I am a member of Ning and I have a MySpace page. As I have discussed before, I don’t visit Ning often (maybe once a week) because I don’t know anyone personally. It’s difficult to talk/chat with someone that I have never met. However, on MySpace, I have family and friends that I know or have known. In the brief amount of time that I have created my space online, I have found a number of people that I went to school with or even worked with in a prison (we were all correctional officers), but as one friend warned me, the messages will slow down. How true that message was!! Now I am sure that if I were to add my current students, I would have messages all the time, but alas, I will not add them until the end of the year when they are no longer my current students.
When I logged into MySpace today, I was disappointed that I did not have any messages. I don’t even get the usual comments that my son would leave for me. <<Warning: Rhetorical question coming!>> How am I to delve into the “culture” if no one will talk to me?? I will figure out a way, as I have with other aspects/assignments in my life. It is just disappointing to know that my “friends” don’t have the time (nor do I) to stay online for a longer period of time in a day, like the younger generation apparently does. Where there’s a will, there’s a way….
