Make up for Chat 4/21

I am posting to make up for missing the chat on 4/21. I apologize for missing again but have had to deal with serious medical issues with my stepfather.
On with the post. I had a little laugh attack at the start of yall's chat because rats were the hot topic. Then the discussion moved to assure that we know the difference between communities and SNS sites. I look at these like chat rooms vs. Facebook. Facebook is about me as one individual connecting with who I know. A chat room or communities such as this are formed around a topic or subject rather than an individual. Then ya'll discussed the idea behind SNS and if anyone had more than one. I have a blog that I created for out of town family to keep up with pictures of my kids. I am horrible at updating it frequently. I also have a profile on FB and twitter. Although I only check facebook about once a week or so, and I have never "tweeted." I think I am in these SNS so I don't feel out of the loop. It is as if I don't want to get left out of all of the SNS hype but I'm not really great at keeping up with them like a lot of people. Wow, then Kris shocked the group with the profile thing by Yahoo that cannot be deleted. That is disturbing in itself. For the record, I loved reading the back on the chats. Our class is funny. Anyway, after reading the chat SNS has several benefits such as keeping up with folks and communicating with people you may not have given a chance in the first place. I thought the talk about how people have changed the way they hang out was so interesting. I've never thought about that because I am in mother mode and I hang out with my friends at lunch groups, play dates, baseball games, vacations ect...I don't really think about how the youth of America is hanging out together. I still think to some degree the small town southern kids are meeting at fast food restaurants or at least I hope so...it is fascinating that online communities is indeed changing that concept to some degree. Sorry again for missing the chat...it looked like a great one and thanks for allowing the make up post! :)