The first thing I want to do?

Week three of the 23 things project has us Social Reading.  The opening line of the introduction asks and answers its own question, "After you finish a good book, what's the first thing you want to do? Talk about it with someone else!"  For me this is not the case, I like to live with them in my head for a while I think I continue to savour the experience.  When is this not the case?  If I didn't like the book.  Case in point?  I don't think there was a person that crossed my path that didn't quickly hear of the fantastic disappointment that was the Casual Vacancy. 

I wonder if I had read some reviews before those ill fated hours wasted if I might not have chosen another way to spend my time?  Probably not, I likely would have thought  'It can't be that bad', I would have been wrong.  But this is all an aside to the suggested activity of the week, Social Reading.  I like it.  I don't do it faithfully, in fact while I have generated a few lists in MyVision I have not updated it in over a year. 

Faithfulness appears to be the fatal flaw in all Social Media formats.  They seem like a great idea but fizzle out after the initial attraction wans.  You move on to the newest, better looking not so high maintenance format that all of your friends are telling you about.  All I have to say is, "meh".  They do not differ from one another save from the glitz and flash.

I am a woman stuck in her ways.  I like email and IM-ing but I still spell the words, use punctuation and capitalisation.  I think that we, as a whole, are far too eager to move on to the newest thing and too quick to give up on things with value and I choose not to.  I like the old and value the outdated... now tell that to my shoe closet.