Virtualand

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I’ve created another blog. Amazing how you resist these new forms of technology and communication for the longest time, then you stick your toes in just a tad to test the waters and before you know it, your diving in head first. It’s like breaking the seal when drinking. I resisted Facebook for months and months when I was a freshman at U of O. But I finally broke down and signed on after one of my friends insisted with all seriousness that I join. Like I was sleeping through life, missing all the action.

Though the networking tool has been pretty dang useful through the years, I definitely believe it’s a long-term detriment to society. As if people watching isn’t bad enough (I secretly love it!), we can now, as a society, Facebook stalk. We can waste hours upon hours of our real life living in Virtualand. We can talk, talk, talk, talk to people without really even talking. Facebook and all other virtual networking systems have to be one of the largest paradoxes of our time. They're social networking tools that in all actuality create a society that's anti-social.

Anyway though... the new blog I’ve created is not technically mine. It’s for the SHOC Foundation. I’m just the journalist. Hopefully, it will turn out to be a helpful tool. For right now, it’s main use will be updating my mom’s friends on her status. Everyone wants to know the latest, and unfortunately we can’t talk to every single person. Right now, word pretty much travels through the grapevine. That’s fine and all, but sometimes information gets a little twisted. So, with this blog, people will be able to hear it (or read it) straight from the source.

The blog will also be used for current events within the foundation, the gynecologic cancer community and local cancer institutes like Northwest Cancer Specialists and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. The SHOC website is kind of supposed to do that, but… our web guy is… occupied. We’re on his back burner because he doesn’t charge us to manage the site, which is understandable.

www.theshocfoundation.blogspot.com