I Am The Internet

I’ve done it. I’ve taken the plunge. I joined Google Buzz after deleting it.

Ridding myself of Google Buzz was mostly a knee-jerk reaction to hearing about a young lady whose personal life was revealed to her abusive ex because of Google Buzz’s initial privacy settings. Also, it was totally my way of being all, “I am going to senselessly boycott something because you don’t use Facebook . . . Chelsea! Hah! So there!” But I have since realized that this is childish and silly. Sure, the privacy settings may suck, but it doesn’t do anything to me, a simpleton who doesn’t really do anything on Google. My gmail is mostly my spam folder anyway.

Then Chelsea said that she would consider joining Twitter (but not Facebook, never Facebook) if I got back on the Google Buzz band-wagon. And I thought, “You know, me. That seems fair. I never gave Google Buzz a chance, and it’s hypocritical of me to criticize Chelsea for not giving Twitter much of a chance, and then to not give Buzzing a chance. Besides, remember what the Dalai Llama said on, Twitter! ‘To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone .’ So, let’s go, me!” And here I am . . . on Google Buzz . . . and it doesn’t seem any more amazing than Facebook or Twitter, but hey, all social networking sites are the same nowadays anyway.

My dear friend and colleague Andy Carlson-McNab noted that I have become all “internet savvy.” That’s not to say that I can now use the internets and work their magic like a pro, but that I am using all of these funly networking sites and trying to be “cutting edge.” Now that I have a blog, three Twitter accounts (@EmpyClaw for me-ness, @FLoYD_Fest for official FLoYD Fest news, and @NooParkcast for anything and everything parking lot), Facebook, a website (in progress), a YouTube account (with posted videos!) and now Google Buzz, I feel that I have become the internet itself. Oh, except I don’t do Digg or Reddit or Myspace . . . and I think a few newer social networking tools have popped up that Felicia Day is on, but I totally haven’t heard of before. But beyond all of those things and more, I am totally the internet now!

So yeah. Um . . . Follow me on Google Buzz, I guess? I don’t know how that works. Just find me and do it. Or better yet, follow me on Twitter. ‘Cause Twitter’s sexy. Y’know, in a “I’d totally do that if I weren’t getting married” sort of way.

Peace out, waffles!

P.S. Read Chelsea’s blog and watch us battle to the undeath in a blog-off to end all blog-offs. http://somanyrants-solittletime.blogspot.com/