Technology Through Our Eyes

I'd not known back then that joining a social network site that my colleagues had been talking about incessantlywas going to be a pleasant experience rather then the pointless waste of time I'd expected. I worked for a web production company that did everything from designing to developing web sites, I'd landed the job simply by chance when I'd posted my CV to a job site I'd been using looking for administration work, a few days later I had received an email inviting me to the interview where I eventually succeeded in getting an administration role in the company.

Working with a load of computer buffs had its ups and downs, you did tend to get sick of hearing about the newest andmost amazing connection, the best developing software, and the worst and best internet sites, but, fortunately for a humble little office worker like me they also seemed to know alot about the world of social network sites that I was so intrigued aboutyet so scared ofand had finally managed to get me to join one.

It wasn't long before a huge percentage of my free time was spent on the site, I made myself busy gathering friends and collecting email addresses, making sure I built myself my very own substantial social network.

One night I came across a middle aged guy on the site, didn't know him and had never seen him before, but he happened to be a web developer and had many interesting things on his profile regarding his work, so we had gotten talking about his profession, our connection being that I worked for a company with many people like him. We talked for hours about certain work he'd done, about important roles his company had played in the world wide web, as well as the important roles my company had played too, both of us very careful to not actually reveal the names of our companies. As the evening was drawing to a close he sent me his email address and we agreed we'd keep in touch.

We did keep in touch over the next fewmonths and became very close as friends, there was no romantic interest, despite our rather large age gap there wasn't an attraction anyway, but it was clear there was a definite connection there and we became close friends from simply chatting over cyberspace.

It was over a year later when I was sat at work and the boss approached me to introduce a new employee, I was surprised to see my 'mr social network' chat friend stood there looking at me. Needless to say years later we are still the closest of colleagues as well as the closest of friends.