I'm having a weird social media moment.

So, I am somewhat active in a variety of social networks. At work, we make great use of plurk and twitter, and I have a facebook account as well. Because I have my plurk set up to post to twitter and facebook, I've been posting in all three lately, without putting in that much more effort.

So, anyway, I'm having a very bad week. I found put this week that my mother has breast cancer, and one of my oldest, best friends is being left by her husband. I mean, as weeks go, this has been grim.

And I'm not posting about any of it on the social networks. I've told some people at work, because I have not been myself and they news to know it's not them.... at least that's the reason I use to justify myself....

And it's not like I don't see other people posting about their problems on social networks. But for me... no.

He'll, I'm not sure I'm going to click submit on this blog post. The only reason I consider posting this stuff to the newly reconstituted site is because I am interested in the culture that pervades on these social networks. The shared culture of the network doesn't support that very well. With some exceptions, the sorts of problems I'm having come up are not the ones that are going to be helped by people in the nework.

Smiley hugs are not effective.

More later, falling asleep...........