Recently I’ve been wondering if it was worth sustaining my many social networks, that were going unused, merely for fear I may lose contact with a small amount of people. Then I realised I don’t keep in contact with these people since I don’t use these accounts. While I may log in every so often I noticed I hadn’t truly used Myspace in nearly two years.

So I did the obvious thing and deleted it. A few days passed and someone asked “what happened to your Myspace account I was going to mail you?” Ironically they asked me this through another social network, so I tried pointing out that they could still contact me just not through Myspace. I told them I still regularly used Facebook and Twitter and that these had replace the need for the networks I had used while still in high school. Talking to other friends I’ve noticed a trend that we seem to be gradually moving away from networks like Bebo and Myspace and heading to what we view to be more “grown-up” networks.

However I’ve wondered more and more whether these networks are more mature for instance Facebook is slowly filling with flash games and both Twitter and Facebook are plagued with horrendous amounts of spam. Facebook has always had games and some of them are quite good however I prefer using facebook connect on Kongregate over most of the native games.

In other news I recently passed my resubmission and have changed on to the Computing (Games Development) degree at Abertay. I can’t wait to start Third year properly and actually do some work, especially since most of my summer has been taken up by either working for the University or as a waiter at the Ashoka Shak in Dundee. Also we’ve finally finished moving in and have had our flat-warming. Also it was my birthday yesterday :)

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