Social Networks
A couple of weeks ago I found a reference to LinkedIn and I followed it. I had heard about this social networking site but hadn’t taken it very seriously because I’m just not “in” to that kind of stuff… or so I thought. A few minutes of looking at my friends profile and seeing reference to some other people I know had me intrigued with the technology so I grabbed an account and played a little more.
It wasn’t long before I felt comfortable enough with the site to upload my Yahoo! address book and boy was I amazed at the people I knew that were “linked in.” My wife even had an account there. So I sent out invitations to join my network and as those got accepted I found even more people I knew that were using this network. Anyway, it’s a neat site that I can actually find real value in.
However, joining LinkedIn lead me to Twitter and I got a little intrigued with it so I joined there too and started following a hand full of people that I know. It’s neat and it’s fun but I’m not sure of the value yet. I’m also not sure its such a good idea for me to broadcast what I’m doing, including locations, to people I might not know much about. But it is neat and fun.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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I find Twitter to be like a slow-motion IRC. It lets me exchange snark and witticisms with people that keeps me in touch with them, but isn’t interruptive.