Dipping a toe into the future

[rax]

So I've given in and dipped a toe into the future, which for most of you is probably the present. I'm planning to actually swim, or at least float. Help me out here:

• If you're using Twitter, I'm user raxvulpine; let me know so that I can follow you! (Or just follow me, and I'll notice and follow you back.)
• If you're using Facebook, you can friend me by clicking here. (I gave in because my UMass Boston friends are sufficiently from the future that they don't even use email.)
• Expect me to actually write up book reviews and such more frequently now.
• You can be my LinkedIn not-friend-because-that's-not-professional-enough-but-I-have-pink-hair-so-who-cares here. Thanks, jadia .
• Do I need to care about Dreamwidth?
• I've refreshed my personal website. I'm actually not embarrassed by it now! Yay!

What social technologies or mumbledy-whatevers am I missing? I'm going to be going to conferences and talking to people and want to be able to jump into networking with people and not seem like some sort of hopeless luddite. Eventually I will need to write some Javascript to automate the news bits but for now I think this is OK.

Comments

[friode.livejournal.com]

The security of your most protected entries is limited in part by the weakest security of any computer of any of your friends or readers or whatever who have access to that entry (along with their willingess to send their lj passwords to third parties that claim to convert their own journals to pdf or whatever).

And yeah, reading list has some appeal. I sometimes feel like some people on my lj friends list would be more accurately described as acquiantances.

[lhexa.livejournal.com]

Heh, I have a thing for writing only public entries, so the security matter doesn't bother me.

"Reading list" is, oddly enough, the exact term that I adopted after finding after realizing that I had to force back my misgivings about "friends list" every time I said it.