Ok status. My globalized social network is kind of odd. I havent quantified it but it definitely consolidates all the people or types of people I would socialize with if I could. I live in my parents basement. Its kind of small. I also dont have a car yet even though I can only say Im from Alberta. And as soon as you step in a taxi or a bus or train and go downtown anywhere bing 50 bucks. And I havent had an hourly paying job or monthly paying work for 8-years now. So Id rather save 50 bucks a month for phone services and camera and computer parts. I also dont have sociable neighbors the kind that are over social and say hi every day over the fence and drag you around where they socialize wearing cowboy boots or going to sword fighting lessons. So basically I havent got a local social network. It looks sometimes like Ive got a national social network. Mostly because my parents travel to the next state in the summer and my brother is somewhere over there in Montreal and Ottawa. Sometimes my cousins upload stuff. But you know since childhood all my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins lived at least one state away. So if they upload like two photos of what theyre doing Im like wooo yay. So after neighbors, family theres school elevators. Thats where the globalization really kicks in and seems to be still global. Although trying to consolidate western and eastern Canadian school elevators and one American school elevator in Guamarabia is a little weird. And exposed to weird things like psychics and aliens and various scientific types that like to put things in searchable lists in measured glass jars that children tap on while philosophers decide which cult, tribe and haplotype is the best moral mix. So I figure at least a few from my school classes have decided to leave the planet. When I grew up computers were mostly about science and they could talk and answer questions and travel through time. At the end of the 1970s they were suddenly about Pong, hand held football game passed from desk to desk at recess, and not even math class calculators for inverse mode sohcahtoa yet in 1978. That was North Park elementary school. Those guys obviously all got jobs and cars and are probably all scandal-free city councilors by now but I sure havent heard much from them or the Cub Scout troop. I did however add the only neighbors I socialized with during the 1970s to Facebook. Almost all of them. Radio and computer technology has as much to do with it as being global travelers. Living overseas and flying. I think if you put those two variables as the top categories which I guess technically and vernacularly is expats then that would be the most likely people to connect with. But the neighbor I most communicated with from the beginning and globally was the neighbor that was a Ham radio user. It seems like in my memory that I could track him easier in the middle of then Pacific with a radio ham call sign signal in 2001 as much or more than an IPhone or Spot user in 2011 in Canada. The next most-likely to connect with category would be the people who vacation overseas. And so on. Kinda weird. 1,000-mile rule. Super computer users increase the global connection odds quite a bit. Im somewhat in contact with both university alumni Jason and Alan in Saudi Arabia and Hawaii who were the only people that I remember in my architecture class using computers for design projects in the 1980s. Im trying to guess whats going to happen next. Something before inter dimensional quantum entanglement between universes. Constant improvements from BBS forums in 1996 to email news to websites to the same things with different names social media and crowd sourcing in 2016. I sure hope I can still afford a computer and afford to be online globally in 2016. Right now I have the opportunity with my dad to convince my mom to build a fusion powered radio tower in the backyard and get my inter-galaxy ham operators license. You know Ive spent 15-years doing SETI radio signal computing which I figure will change to some sort of global computer array detector. Built into OS 12 and a 1pound coil of hollow numidium wire with a laser
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:05:45 +0000
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