Computers

This is going to make me sound old but I guess if the shoe fits... :-) As I was growing up, I remember my Father mentioning computers and I knew that NASA used them but they were room sized units and who could afford that? The SCI-FI people talked about robots and such but that was future, right?

When I went to college the counselor put me into philosophy as an elective. What a waste that was for me. I didn't even know they had a computer department until one day I saw a guy drop a bunch of cards on the floor and bemoaned how his program was just scrambled. Nevertheless, that looked more interesting than what I was studying. How I wish I had jumped in at that point. There weren't many girls doing that stuff.

As I look back, I can see that none of us realized just how much computers were going to be a part of our lives. Social Networking (Web 2.0) is like that. Overnight it has changed how people relate to each other on the internet and many of us are still standing here wondering how to get someone to visit the webpage we finally figured out how to make. The solution is all around us but we have to be brave enough to jump in.

I like this Iktusnet website but the thing that bothers me about it is that only a few people are visiting the forums or posting to their blogs. That tells me that most people don't realize that they really do have something to say that other people want to hear about. I know it isn't easy to start doing that but if you jump in you find out it's not as hard as you thought it was.

Social Networking is to the internet what the cell phone was to telephones. It didn't reinvent it, it just made it more user friendly but you have to learn to use it.

If you are one of those people who would like to witness more but don't know what to say, you have a ready made blog waiting for your input. Come on and let your light shine a little. We'll all benefit by it.