Alex's+Social+Networking+Page

Here are the links to my profiles for each site: [|43Things], [|Flixter], and [|flickr]. =2/17/10= I'm starting to comment more on people's posts. This is the best way to actually interact socially with people. One other nice thing about having friends on flixter is that you can recommend movies to them. It could be annoying if the people who you are friends with have a different taste in movies, but so far they haven't been too bad. I'm going to start doing this more often. Flickr is moving a little slower. I commented on a message board and joined a couple more groups. I'm going to try to decide what the best approach is to meet new people.

=2/9/10= On 43things, I've gotten a few cheers and have subscribed to a couple people. I've been writing entries on my goals, but so far nobody has commented on anything. I'm going to change that soon, hopefully. I finally uploaded some pictures onto my flickr account. I now have two photo albums. I also joined a couple groups about pinhole photography. I'm pretty excited to start interacting with people on flickr. Right now it's a little overwhelming on the site. There are so many pictures to look at.

I now have friends on Flixter. One cool thing about having friends is that you can see how they rated certain movies compared to yourself.

=2/2/10= Yesterday I created a flickr account, but I haven't put any pictures up yet because my internet speed is too slow at my apartment.

I also added some more goals on 43things and am now up to 17. I cheered a few people, but haven't gotten any cheers back. I've also made a few posts about my goals.

My search for friends on Flixter is still in vain. I do have 1 friend now, but he's a friend in real life too. I've decided to try a different tactic. I'm going to go to the pages of movies I really love and see if I can find a person with similar taste in movies that way. It seems like a lot of the people on the site have pretty bad taste.

=1/31/10= Today I added a new profile picture to 43Things, added 11 new goals, and filled out the "About me" section. I'm probably going to start actually socializing soon. On 43things you don't become friends with people, but you can subscribe to certain people. I also added a picture to my Flixter account and filled out some profile information. I tried looking for people to add as friends, but most of the people on the website scare me. It seems worse than myspace. I sent a friend request to an actual friend so we'll see what happens there. I'm going to try really hard to find some people on the site that seem intelligent.

=1/29/10= I revisited my 43Things profile. I "gave up" on all of my previous goals so I can start with a clean slate for this project. I also unsubscribed from the other users I was following. Along with making new friends online I would like to come up with 43 goals that I can finish by the end of the semester. I need to update my profile picture because it's really old.



=1/28/10= I think I've made my choices for the 3 social networks.

[|Flixter]: I already have an account, but I don't use it for any social networking aspects of the site. So far I've just kept track of what movies I've seen and what movies I want to see.

[|43Things]: I also have an account for this site already, but I've been inactive for quite a while. One of my goals for this site is to make 43 goals for this semester alone and see if I can finish all of them.

[|flickr]: I don't have any account for this website; I've only looked at other people's pictures on it. I'm hoping that this practicum will motivate me to do more photography, which I've been meaning to do.