{"id":145,"date":"2007-03-27T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T10:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2020-04-28T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T10:17:33","slug":"on-studying-what-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/on-studying-what-you-love\/","title":{"rendered":"On studying what you love"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>I love technology, especially in the form of online communities. I&#8217;ve been part of so many online communities I have some degree of expertise. I&#8217;ve seen the birth of the chatroom and it&#8217;s evolution, the popularisation of instant messaging and through flipside and nochicktrix I&#8217;ve seen the forming of virtual communities.<\/p>\n<p>More recently I&#8217;ve seen the increase from virtual communities to real communities. Over the past two years, almost everyone I know has created a myspace account and for a while, this was the best place for people to be. More recently though people have moved to Facebook. Having more than 140 friends, of which only three I do not know, is a sign of how times have changed. It&#8217;s actually fashionable to be part of an online\/offline community.<\/p>\n<p>All the parties I&#8217;ve recently been to have been advertised on Facebook among other places and it&#8217;s become the social networking site of choice. If you&#8217;re not there you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on anymore. It&#8217;s a great shift. It&#8217;s also replacing e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Why e-mail people when all your friends are on Facebook. Why not take advantage of unlimited photo uploads to Facebook to add all those past nights for everyone to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>I love the way technology is going. It&#8217;s sociable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I love technology, especially in the form of online communities. I&#8217;ve been part of so many online communities I have some degree of expertise. I&#8217;ve seen the birth of the chatroom and it&#8217;s evolution, the popularisation of instant messaging and through flipside and nochicktrix I&#8217;ve seen the forming of virtual communities. More recently I&#8217;ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,43,9,3],"tags":[2527,771,780,1914,2526,770],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-social-media-living-room","category-tech-related","category-university","tag-community","tag-facebook","tag-social-media","tag-student-life","tag-studying","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}