Tracking Social Media . . .

I really thought the social network log was going to be a drag this week, but I was interersted to find how little time I actually spend online.  It was kind of like a budget, where you're surprised at how much money you spend on things you don't need, only in reverse.  By far, most of my social networking this week was an effort to stay current with all of our class blogs: reading posts, watching videos, posting comments, and updating Team 3's blog took way more time that I spent on all other social networking sites combined.  Perhaps  that means I'm just not a social person?  Could be.  I also noticed that most of my social networking time involved reading others' posts, status updates, and other offerings rather than really "interacting" in a meaninful way.  I think this is known as lurking.  I'm OK with that; I'm not compelled to come up with some witty thing to say each time I log into a social networking site . . . most often I just want to see what everyone is up to.  When I say "social networking site," what I really mean is Facebook, because that's the only digital social networking I do other than the assigned blogs for our class, and frankly, that's quite enough.  So the project, I think, was a success: I feel pretty good about the actual time I spend online engaged (or disengaged, as the case may be) in networking.  I don't feel like the time spent is inordinate or wasted; a few minutes on Facebook here and a few minutes updating a blog there is probably equivalent to the time some folks spend on a smoke-break.  Ooh . . . the digital smoke break.  I think I just thought of a great new iPad app . . .