Of networking tools and screaming in Maltese
Netowrking tools. It doesn't matter how much I try to avoid them, I have to have more and more of them as each different social circle of mine uses one, so in the end the distribution goes as follows:
Linked in: For my older AIESEC friends
Facebook: for the global trotters
Xing: For the Germans
MySpace: For the Americans
Bebo: For the Irish
IWIW: For the Hungarian
And so, I have ended up hating almost all of them, except Facebook, which I love, because so much is on there and its magnificent user interface. So as I have heard of many others, I have refused to add more. It is already stupid to be subscribed to six of them. But all in all, I never found any of my classmates from back in Mexico in them, and I seriously started wondering, why it was that they had not integrated in the global fad of internet networking tools. Theories many, until talking on MSN to Elisa, a very old friend, she told me the trick: They all are in yet another networking tool. Hi5... Oh no! No more. Elisa shared hers with me to see some pictures, and then I realized how many people from school were there, and so I ended joining. In the end, it is weird to find out your best friend is pregnant 5 months late in an idle night in a random conversation with someone else.
The new experience of reconnecting to the people I grew up with and whom I barely contacted in the last 7 years has brought several discoveries... about 70% is already married, 20% are engaged and 10% are pursuing a second degree. 90% is still in Mexico. As always they make me feel old and nuts.
So these were my thoughts before coming to Dublin. It seems to be a city full of movement, of which I have not discovered much more than migration offices and what was included in a city tour I decided to take yesterday to have a geographical notion of what there is to see and where is what.
I have been hanging out with people from AIESEC and staying in the MC flat untill I find a place to live and Nathan comes back to Ireland from Spain as I really know absolutely no one. That is the only way you are living in a flat with 8 more people and waking up on a Sunday morning to the sound of arguing in Maltese. Yes, the start of a new life.
Linked in: For my older AIESEC friends
Facebook: for the global trotters
Xing: For the Germans
MySpace: For the Americans
Bebo: For the Irish
IWIW: For the Hungarian
And so, I have ended up hating almost all of them, except Facebook, which I love, because so much is on there and its magnificent user interface. So as I have heard of many others, I have refused to add more. It is already stupid to be subscribed to six of them. But all in all, I never found any of my classmates from back in Mexico in them, and I seriously started wondering, why it was that they had not integrated in the global fad of internet networking tools. Theories many, until talking on MSN to Elisa, a very old friend, she told me the trick: They all are in yet another networking tool. Hi5... Oh no! No more. Elisa shared hers with me to see some pictures, and then I realized how many people from school were there, and so I ended joining. In the end, it is weird to find out your best friend is pregnant 5 months late in an idle night in a random conversation with someone else.
The new experience of reconnecting to the people I grew up with and whom I barely contacted in the last 7 years has brought several discoveries... about 70% is already married, 20% are engaged and 10% are pursuing a second degree. 90% is still in Mexico. As always they make me feel old and nuts.
So these were my thoughts before coming to Dublin. It seems to be a city full of movement, of which I have not discovered much more than migration offices and what was included in a city tour I decided to take yesterday to have a geographical notion of what there is to see and where is what.
I have been hanging out with people from AIESEC and staying in the MC flat untill I find a place to live and Nathan comes back to Ireland from Spain as I really know absolutely no one. That is the only way you are living in a flat with 8 more people and waking up on a Sunday morning to the sound of arguing in Maltese. Yes, the start of a new life.
Next week, work in Accenture starts.
posted by M at 12:30 PM
1 Comments:
I find pretty much the same, except bebo is'nt as popular as it used to be. Cen fa?
I've never screamed in Maltese, but have had mouthful of Maltesers; does that count?
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