My page

Well, Here is my first Blog for class, It is late, I hope that I don't mess that up again. I am here today to talk about me. My presence in social media as it were. First a little history. I am a very non traditional student. I restarted college in August 2009, after a career in the Navy where I worked  as an Electronics Technician. My family got our first computer in the 1970's, it was a Radio Shack TRS80. Not much of a computer by today's standards. Then we got a Coleco Adam computer. (OMG, spell check does not recognize Coleco or Colecovision. That makes me feel old). I got my first modern computer, a Pentium in 1996, I paid AOL for the privilege of connecting to the internet, and giving me an e-mail address. Later I learned about Hotmail, I got an address billbyrd@hotmail.com (It's still active an forwards to my gmail. That's where I started. I got an account at Myspace when it was hip, (probably there, I have not checked it for years) Once I had access to high speed internet i left AOL behind, and now pity those who are still wearing training wheels. I learned about Palm pilots in the late 90's and bought one even before a cell phone. I have been a cell phone user since 1997, and got my first smart phone when Palm invented the Treo. In 2006, I discovered Facebook. (My timeline only goes back to 2008 for some reason) and I have 1370 friends, many group and pages that I follow. Interesting point, I know almost all of the personally. I sing in Barbershop quartets and choruses. So I have spent real world time with most of them. I am members of several list serve type discussion groups, mostly involving Barbershop music. I started this Blogger page some time ago, but Have never done much with it. I have been on linked-in for a few years, and google+ since they started it a while back. 

I signed up for Twitter for the class, and checked my Klout score,found out right away, due to my lever of activity on Facebook I had a score of 39. Now here is is barely two weeks later, and I am up to 45. I still don't quite know how I feel about Twitter, but I will play with it, and send my thoughts out to the twitterverse for all to see. I will hold my judgement on the need for it. 

I have a tendency to get wrapped up in projects, and forget to do other things that I am supposed to be doing, so we can anticipate I may miss another deadline, but through the use of electronic reminders and prompts, I hope to avoid that fate.

Well for now, I have run out of things to talk about, Have a great weekend.