Becky makes a good point and has raised something that I should clear up right from the off. I'm not for one second suggesting that anyone here signs up for any of the services that I've mentioned in recent days (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Jaiku etc.) if you don't already have an account there. It didn't occur to me that my postings could be interpreted in that way so apologies for any confusion. Do not on my account inflict Facebook on yourselves. Go out and waste some film instead?please.
All I've been doing is creating Filmwasters accounts on all of those sites so that FW people who already have accounts there can connect with us 'in a different space' (man) and do stuff like, well, erm, play Scrabble
I'm an IT geek, but I don't get to do any really interesting web-based stuff at my day job, so I'm really just using Filmwasters as an opportunity to take a look at how some of the recently emerged technologies hang together - in particular how social networking sites & presence information might work together with a forum-based 'community' like ours here at Filmwasters. If that doesn't make sense don't worry because it won't imapct anyone here in any way. I'm just playing with some new toys. We may get some extra traffic through the site, we may get a new member or two, but probably it won't make much of a difference.
I hope that makes sense and allays any uncertainties.
