Articles by mgedwards

Getting sucked into Facebook

I have resisted until now setting up a Facebook account; that is, until a good friend and colleague invited me to join.  I finally took the plunge and set up an account.  I had been resisting because I didn’t want to set up yet another account that I would briefly use and forget.  How many are out there that have remnants of my online presence?  MySpace, Second Life, Classmates, Cyworld, Friendster, you name it.  I’ve tried them all and never really went back.  This is about the only online presence I still maintain (well, sort of).  How many of these social networking sites have you joined?  Do you still maintain them?  I have to admit, Facebook seems to make it easier to network than other sites, but at what point will Facebook also face declining popularity?  At this point I feel like the last person in the world to join Facebook.  But will it last, or will it go the way of Tribe.net?  Today’s Facebook may be tomorrow’s MySpace.  Or even worse, tomorrow’s America Online!

Photos from Bolivia

Dear Reader, I’m still trying to catch up from months of not posting any entries or photos.  Life’s been busier the past week or so.  I finally have a chance to post some photos of Bolivia from our March trip to Machu Picchu.  We spent one day in Bolivia en route from Machu Picchu, Peru to Paraguay.  Unfortunately, we didn’t have a chance to enjoy the capital, La Paz, where we spent the night.  Instead, we traveled from La Paz to Lake Titicaca and enjoyed the Bolivian countryside and the lake.  The lake is amazing.  It’s the largest unspoiled lake I’ve ever seen.  Thank goodness for high altitudes and difficulty breathing, which hamper efforts to turn the lake into a major recreation center.  If the lake were in the United States, it would be highly frequented by tourists.  Enjoy the photos!