information junkie

My fear of using and becoming familiar with RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Utube, email and blogging is that I will become a bigger info junkie than I already am. My family and friends will not play trivial pursuit type games with me, because of all the odd ball information stuck in my head. Email already makes my life easier and harder at the same time.... what should be a quick way to communicate takes more time than I plan for every single time, maybe the phone or mail was quicker? I am so easily side tracked by brite shinny things that it is hard to stay focused.
At work we spend so much of our day at the computer already, should we add more isolation time. I feel like twitter,facebook, utube are more for personal use, their foreverness makes me nervous for the younger generation. We all made mistakes and thankfully most people have forgotten most of mine, but once they put personal "stuff" out there; and it may seem funny and harmless at the time, is there forever. may be i over think things?

Blogs

Blogging, my question has always been why would someone want to read my rambling thoughts. I am a get to the point and get going person. Also my time is valuable to me and limited, do I want to take the time to read every ones thoughts for this moment? I have a face book account, which I rarely check, but am curious and at times stumped by what people write... like "off to bed, tired, going to the dentist today and other random statements". Why say anything unless it is valuable or interesting?
is it just me or has society's ability to communicate face to face getting less and less? Am I just a cranky old lady or just a busy old lady? But I am excited about this challenge and what I will learn from it and most importantly how can I use it to make my life easier at work and home?
tht15

Habits

The easiest habit for me is creating my own learning tool box. I have found people, life experiences and challenges sometimes more informative than books alone, not that I don't learn as much as I can on a topic via books, magazines, TV, radio, the web and more. I just love to learn about things and peoples.

The hardest habit is using technology to my advantage, I envy the younger generations fearlessness's when it comes to tech things. Learning how to work new gadgets and all the special features is a at times overwhelming. I love what technology does for us and I hate my growing dependence of it. But it is here to stay so that is why I am doing this challenge, to pull myself out of the dark ages of tech stuff. I want to use it for personal and professional growth. tht15

I'm finally here! let's get going... I want to learn, learn, learn and more.tht