Reflections - Wk1

I have been working on Intranets for around 5 years now. Being ambitious I have realised that sometimes formal qualifications speak louder than actions. So I decided to give uni another try.

What was I thinking? Working full time plus being a mother of 2, how do I think I am going to cope??? Let's hope my husband is ready for my committment.

But here I am giving it a go. I don't really expect anyone to read this but it will be interesting to see who does (if anyone like I said).

So each week I will come and post my "reflections" of learning as part of an ongoing assignment for my first unit of studies.

This week we had to check out a site called namechk.com and see if we could establish a single username against a selected 7 of the 72 social networking sites listed - pretty boring. But what did surprise me is how many of these sites there are and the number of people using them. Even though I work with websites I work with internal websites for a company so I only really knew of the sites you hear a lot about, you know, Twitter, Facebook, uTube and the likes.

I was surprised to see so many blogging type sites out there. Now as you may have already guessed this was one of the sites we had to check a username against and register with. So here I am using it as my place to reflect on my weekly learnings.

I really only thought that I would use these kind of sites when they directly impact on my work, for example I use LinkedIN a lot. But I will soon find out if these kind of sites can have the same devestating effect as Facebook where you can literally get sucked into a vortext of virtual social interactions. I have never really been into any of these sites before but now that I have to explore them for my intellectual growth it will be interesting to see if my behaviour continues to be predictive.

I have already had an influx of Friends requests through Facebook - generally I would reject facebook stalkers but now I am not sure which ones are genuine through my online study group and which are not!

And if anyone does read this, and you happen to be from OWA - Curtin WEB101 I invite you to share your thoughts. I will guess some of you will think me quite cynical and that's OK because I think that too. Let's see if we can prove me wrong :-)