Homeboy

I am definitely a "Homeboy." I am very content with a hot beverage, a good book and some peace and quiet. Or, the same hot beverage, a good friend and great conversation. Though most of all I am happiest when I am home with my family. My days of wondering where the next party is at or what's going on "over there," are well behind me. Besides, it's important to note that the days of "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," are gone!

I'm a Navy man, and I've seen many a men (and women) loose there family over a simple text message that contained a "guilty as charged" photo. We live in the age of social media, where a moment in time can be transmitted around the world and to the world in a fraction of a moment later.

Social media is different from industrial media (newspapers, television, and film) in that it is cheap. Back in the day it would cost time and a postage stamp to send that compromising photo to "ya boy or girl" back home. Now, with the press of a few buttons on a cell phone the same photo will instantly appear on not only your friend's phone but damn near simultaneously on everyone else's phone to.

If a person is not careful, social media can be equivalent to a personal Armageddon.

Social media is exended not only to cellular phones but also the World-wide Web. The recent popularity of such sites as Face Book, You Tube, Internet forums, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video and other technologies: blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, music-sharing, crowdsourcing, and voice over IP, to name a few can now devastate anyone misbehaving.

I choose to remain content with my peaceful coexistance with my fellow human-beings.

I write this blog-entry to entertain but mostly to inform the "ignant" because the "ignant" are worse than the ignorant - because they know better!

Thanks for visiting, thanks for reading.