So What Did You Do Today?

Whatever happened to those good old days, the ones where you had to have an actual conversation with a person before you could say you honestly knew them? It was not until I looked back on the internet usage of my fellow classmates that I realized everything you truly needed to know about them was right in the sites they visited. I quite honestly assumed that, although we would never have all the same sites listed in each individual blog, one site would be visited almost religiously by at least a great majority of our class. That site is Facebook. Every blog I skimmed in order to prep for this post referenced the networking site of networking sites at least once, if not several times.
Because we have a fairly diverse list of hometowns in our class it was to be expected that there would be sites visited that some of us maybe had not heard of before. These differences were seen mostly through local news sites and even some local blogs. It seems that we used the internet for more of a reading, information gathering, and networking opportunity than anything else. Unless you got online to update a blog, or send an email there was not much writing occurring.
Though it always feels, at least to me, just a little awkward to peer into the personal lives of others, I believe the "research" aspect of this post taught me a few things. I think the most important thing I was able to gather was an insight into the personality and background of several of my fellow students. Seeing the sites most visited by them allowed me to realize that though you may not talk to someone because they sit across the room from you, you may have more in common with them then you ever thought possible. I also realized that today's generation has a need to be constantly included in the loop, and everyone has their own form of gossip mill.