what's the 411?

I am in a state of connection / communication confusion.

just a decade ago, connecting with friends and family was as simple as picking up a receiver, remembering 7 or 10 digits and hitting "send". and ps - i was terrible at it and consistently lost touch. it was as simple as..."call me".

The advent of the cell phone brought with it text messenging. Wireless hubs has brought universal internet accessibility (or close to it), and has made email and IM immediately convenient. And then there's the online "connection" sites and of course blogs.

Today, i had to laugh as I was chatting with a friend online (who was at starbucks on her laptop). here i am logged into 3 chat accounts, checking two email accounts, and all the while getting texted by various friends. 5+ email accounts, 4+ im names, a cell phone and who knows how many other accounts later, the girl who used to never keep in touch, is in a perpetual state of "keeping in touch". myspace, facebook, linkedin, msn, aim, gmail, hotmail, comcast, not to mention yahoo, psu... the list goes on and on. i need to moderate my login schedule at work to maintain productivity, yet still be accessible to those who i work with. and thank goodness i'm not compelled to always answer my phone.

it would be too simple for everyone to use the same communication method. it's like the dvd, some people are + R compatible, some -R and then there are the select few that are the dvd rams -- all the while something new and better is on it's way that is gonna render all of the others obsolete any day now. and keeping things straight, it's not like I own a huge collection of dvd's. it's just that they ALL require different mechanisms in order to properly play!

so if you wanna get in touch with me... you know the 411 (Mary J Blige - good old school). if i don't pick up (and i probably won't), text, email, im - just pick an account. i'm probably there.