[In which our hero explains that you wouldn't know her, because she lives in Canada.]
Responding to questions in the tutorial task in this blog today.
I've been using online communication technologies since, christ, probably 96 or so when I first got access to the internet at my high school library and stumbled onto the wonderful world of internet forums, and then really got into it shortly after when I discovered the wonderful world of trolling internet forums like a retarded teenage arsehole. The joys of youth.
What influenced me to use them? The promise of a wide new world beyond what I had access to in my small, terminally boring town home town mainly. Having access to information and people beyond what I had ever known before. It was incredible at the time.
In regards to privacy, yeah it is a fairly big issue to me. I try to put out as little of myself online as I have to, partly out of security concerns, partly because I just don't see the point of sharing your every boring little thought or action with anyone and everyone. That never made sense to me. Maybe I'm too old to get it.
I've made a fair number of friends online over the years, quite a few that I have never met due to distance or them outright living in another country. They're just friends, I don't see a huge distinction between them and people I have met in person, other than that we tend to talk more through e-mail or messenger programs.
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