Week 2: Own Experiences

Since my first mobile phone, the nokia 3315, I have upgraded every two years or so and seem to be able to do so much more to waste time on it. First it was all about texting and calling but with the introduction of the camera phone, mp3s and now the revolutionary iPhone, I don't think there's anything I can't do with my mobile phone. When I first started social networking using msn messenger and later myspace.com, I only used these when I was on a computer. But when I got an iPhone it was possible to go on msn, myspace and the latest craze facebook. To this day I religiously use facebook, it's accessibility and practicality makes it hard to avoid. With the ability to communicate with any of my friends, any time of the day, with the likely hood of them receiving anything I send instantly, I can't imagine it can get any easier. 

The only experience I've had with meeting a stranger over the internet was back in high school. My friend Troy, who was a stranger at the time, shared many mutual friends with me and I knew who he was through photos on the internet but had never formally met him myself. One day he added me on myspace.com and I accepted him, because I obviously knew who he was and thought maybe it could be the potential beginning of a new friendship. After talking online, we organised to hang out with some of our mutual friends. To this day, he remains one of my longest running friends and when it comes down to it, we have myspace.com to thank.