In my first semester at Uvic in 2005 a friend who had moved back east asked me how she could find me on Facebook.
"Facebook? What's Facebook?"
Well, from that second on, my life changed. Ok maybe that’s a bit drastic. But still.

Let me rewind a little. My name is Renee Thomson, and I am from beautiful Vancouver, BC. I’m in my second semester of my first year at Capilano College, in the Communications program. This of course leads me to why I am taking CMNS 253, and unfortunately, my answer isn’t that thrilling – it is, as most of you know, a requirement to the Communications degree. I hope to get everything I can out of this course, and as I know from last semester in 112, Ted is great at filling in the grey spots that always exist within those course descriptions. By the end of this semester I am confident I will be “that-much” more knowledgeable about my area of study.

The new social software I have chosen to examine in my blog is Facebook, because, like I mentioned earlier, it kinda-sorta changed the way us info-age babies communicate.

As pretty much EVERYONE knows (and if you don't, what rock have you been hiding under???) Facebook is a social utility designed to connect friends near and far. Originally it was a network solely for those of us who had gone away to school and wanted to keep in touch with our fellow uni-students, but soon it exploded, and everyone from my best friend in Kansas to my mom got it (ugh).

So, for the next three months I plan on dissecting and critiquing my personal homepage, Facebook (and this is work??).

As for my initial reflections on the course, I am somewhat overwhelmed, especially after returning from a work-free, school-free four months summer vay-cay. However, I’m sure the dust will settle and soon I’ll be back into the good old grind where things make sense and my attention span lasts longer than five minuets at a time. So in that case, I’m somewhat excited to see how the course unfolds.

So, until next time
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