Google+ vs. Facebook

I created a Google+ account today as part of my Learning 2.0 course.  I live in a small town and don't know many people in my profession (aside from my coworkers) so using LinkedIn never appealed to me.  I used to use Facebook for a few years but all my friends wanted me to join their games.  I found it too distracting and ended up just wasting time on Facebook instead of "having a life".  And the whole privacy issue with Facebook is a big deal breaker for me.  I had seen the little +1 icon before but just wasn't curious enough to find out on my own.  I used Blogger when I had a blog and I'm using it again for this blog.  I am a big user of Google Reader.  I have a Google email account.  I just can't use Google Chrome until I get a new hard drive; the one I currently have is approximately 10 years old.  But otherwise, I'm a big fan of Google.

So I added some people to my Google+ account.  Since it's still pretty new, I'm hoping more of my friends and coworkers will join.  And for those that are interested, it does have games like Facebook.  I'm not sure what I think of it yet but I like the look of it.  And my two favourite authors (Robert J. Sawyer and Douglas Coupland) are already using it. I wouldn't mind finding old college classmates that I've lost touch with though.


Read on,
Paula

Learning 2.0 (and a new pet peeve)

Right up front I will admit that I have perfectionist tendencies.  I want things to be just right.  Like the title of my blog.  I want it to reflect me as a person, not be just a random one.  I looked at WordPress first but found it too complicated.  I don't want to have to download something in order to blog.  I have read some Tumblers recently and find them too disorganized for the aforesaid perfectionism.  So I settled on Blogger.  I've used Blogger before for a now-defunct personal blog.  And in choosing my blog title, I discovered a new pet peeve: people who waste good book-related blog titles for blogs that have never been used or haven't been updated since 2003.

Read on,

Paula