I'd say that the biggest communication technology sources that I use on a frequent basis, are; Facebook, my mobile phone, and Skype. Oooh, how long have I been using Facebook? I'd say probably somewhere around the three year mark?! ...How romantic. haha Ummmm, I only bought my mobile just before my last birthday in April, so I've had it for a little over 4 months. It's a Nokia E71 and for the first time in my life, I have unlimited use of Facebook, Youtube and texting (due to my particular cap that I'm on) on my mobile. It's fantastic. Previously I had phones that just had the basics, plus maybe the odd game of snake (Guilty pleasure). haha And since I was ALWAYS short on money, I rarely ever had credit, so there really wasn't much reason in having a phone. ahaha Skype is new to me really. I knew of it, and my parents had an account years ago so that they could talk to my relatives, but it wasn't until I became best friends with a girl that had come to Australia from Northern Ireland for an elongated holiday, did I realise I needed one. When she left to go home, I felt like facebook wasn't enough to really keep our friendship going, so I made an account, and spent one too many nights staying up late and talking to her. So Skype has really become important to me in the fact that I can both see and hear the other person, as though they were sitting right in front of me.
To be honest, I'm not really one of those people that is too concerned about my privacy. Yes, that should scare me, but I'm a very open individual, and in barely one conversation, one could absolutely know almost everything about me :) However, with those scare stories of how pedophiles and other such trolls out there have managed to pillage young girls, it has seemingly forced me to comply with the privacy settings on Facebook. That and my parents constant worrying. So now everything in my privacy settings on Facebook is set to 'Friends Only'. It doesn't really bother me that Google could use my pictures or some such. Truly, I'd be a little bit flattered. haha But it does concern me about people who can find out all my details by hacking into my account etc. That's dangerous. Not only for me, but for my family etc, so I have to be careful. And I'll admit to it...I am one of the many masses who just click 'I agree to the terms and services' button. I mean, who really has the time and patience to read them these days? haha
As I mentioned above, I have not that many qualms in talking to someone I've never met before. The most interesting are ones from other countries. Unless it's some 23 year old man who is just perverse. lol But yes, I do have quite a few people on facebook that I've never met in person. Only a handful of those do I ever actually speak to on a regular basis. Regular meaning every month or two. haha Obviously my normal friends chats are just non-stop. But I enjoy talking to complete randoms, and finding out about them. It's nice :) It is different talking to a random online than to someone you've known for years. Obviously you don't know much about this person, and you're just asking questions and answering them on just your general life details. You don't go in too deep though. You never know their background. And people that you already know, it just seems like you talk about what's happened that day or days previous if you haven't seen them in a while. Nothing really new and exciting, since you already know a lot about them.
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