ruminations on social media

So here's a thought, instead of having a facebook or google+ account for our avatars, we now have the option to write on the walls of our SL friends.  I sort of like this idea.  Sort of, because I really don't care for facebook all that much and wouldn't go near this google+ thing if you paid me.  Google is my search engine, and my blog host, I don't want them trying to share all they know about me to anyone else. 

I like my privacy, For me facebook is a constant battle, trying to protect that privacy, while they come up with more ways to get me to share.  If I had known it was going to be like that I don't think I would have ever signed up for it.  I hardly ever post anything there. I do like that it has reconnected me to many old friends I'd lost touch with over the years. And that is the only reason that I don't cancel it. Now that we reconnected, we stay in touch without the facebook wall. Why?  Well mainly because face book is cluttered with everyone I know, and I don't particularly want to share my private life with colleagues from work and other acquaintances. 

 My second life is much more straight forward.  The friends I've made in SL are my friends,  I enjoy waving to them and this wall seems a perfect medium for that.

so https://my.secondlife.com/kattatonia.wickentower is my secondlife myface+

Tried making a male shape

I like it - more or less.  depends on what skin it wears.  The Belleza Ashton's not bad.

things to say

Suddenly I find that I want to post pictures and talk about stuff