Okay, I have given in. Members of the Digital Painting Forum are joining Facebook and adding friends and joining groups there. I joined there a few months ago to look around after Ryan Sholin told me about it and that it was a great way to find more people with the same interests. But it looked to me like it was more for kids in college trying to still find each other. Was I WRONG! There is a huge digital art and international art community there on Facebook and there are many artists there I have never seen on the internet other than there. So I updated my profile there, found a few friends, hooked up to groups I am interested in and if you are on Facebook, add me as a friend and we will write on each others walls!

Although I have been on the internet since the days of DOS and Prodigy which dates me far more than I like to admit, the technology in the blogging and linking is moving at lightening speed. There is something called MULTIPLY that takes you to Six Degrees of Separation in a few short steps. I could spend days and days on these sites and probably even find childhood friends if I tried to. I need to live a long time to be able to have enough time to create my art, learn more internet, find friends, see family, run the forum, teach what I do, write my books, see my clients and oh yes, feed the cats! I need a clone of me! One that does nothing but learn and then pours it into my head when I’m sleeping and I would wake up know everything instantly.

Share your thoughts about these new communities and their strengths and weaknesses. Have you had positive experiences with them or are they just new “newsgroups” using new technology. What do you think of Facebook and Multiply?

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