begin again

the hardest part about blogging: choosing a title.

i got home last monday determined to whip up the best class blog i've ever created (easy, this is the only one) and i couldn't get past the first step. what do i call this thing? it had to be witty (popcultural references a plus, but nothing too obscure/obnoxious). it had to be something i would remember next week (too many accounts, too many passwords for me to remember these days). and, most importantly, it couldn't contain an alias with some combination of numbers and x's (xXLibrARyRocKsTArrXx680, anyone?)...seven days later and i have a blog i'm not too embarrased to call by name.

one might say, "nicole, you obssess over inane details!" this is, of course, true. but i suppose i'm getting at something else here. namely, technology is rewriting the rules of everyday communication. like the unspoken etiquette of email forwarding we spoke about in class last week, technology is changing the ways we communicate with one another on all fronts. social networking sites ask me to add every detail of my life to my profile; my peers determine the socially acceptable format for doing so (hence, my "favorite movies" really have to say something about me as a person and the name "xXLibrARyRocKsTArrXx680" is so 1998).
rumors abound about the negative impact of texting on language use in teens and parents complain that they just don't understand their kids anymore (maybe not a new problem, but predictive texting is getting the blame for this one now).

in any case, i suppose i'll come to terms with being on the tail end of the "me generation." i'll update my myspace/facebook again (because friendster is so 2003), do the blog thing again (my early days of oversharing on livejournal be damned), and work on getting something real out of this blog two[point]oh! sounds promising to me.

...but no twitter.