Got this link in my email from my friend Mark who wondered what my take would be on it…. so here it is:

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OK I read it. Not sure what I think. I mean Ive always lived my life online and Ive got no issues with posting my life for everyone to see… in fact originally i started doing it because .. well do you remember what we did before? We called everyone individually and had hour long conversations with each one of them. Or once i got email i found myself writing the same emails over and over again. not wanting to cut and paste because its impersonal. Eventually i moved my updates to the internet. Broadcasting them because it saved so much time and then people who wanted to know what was up with me could just go and look when they had that moment of “I wonder what’s going on with Dawn”.

But I do think I spend way too much time online and now with my phone i never really have to get off at all. But then I’m also in contact with a heck of a lot more people than I ever used to be and I never miss my fave bands or cool stuff to do and I can even find other people to come along last minute.

I watch TV with people I don’t know regularly, and recently I got some of the hottest tickets ever to an event in NYC which sold out in 20 mins that i wouldnt even have known about if it wasn’t for someone tweeting a link to where you can buy them at that right moment for me to be looking.

So if Miley Cyrus doesnt want to update her twitter thats fine with me, but I do make it a point to use the internet as a companion to real life and not a substitute for it.