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You are so cutting edge.

December 5, 2006

Posted by leah.jones

Just two weeks after being told, "I've never read a blog," at a Thanksgiving dinner, a friend told me this Saturday, "You are SO cutting edge."

Anyone that knows me knows that I'm not exactly cutting edge. I haven't bothered to buy a DVD player, I only replace my cell phone at the two year mark, and I only set up a del.icio.us account two weeks ago.

My friend has been spending a lot of time working in San Francisco lately and that is why she thinks I'm so cutting edge. "Leah," she continued, "everyone out there blogs and has a MySpace. I mean everyone. And you do all that stuff, you should move there."

Another friend chimed in, "I only have MySpace because my brother in LA has MySpace and he insisted that I get one."

To me, blogging and social networking are not cutting edge; they are necessary tools for writing and working. (I actually just celebrated my third anniversary of blogging on November 24.) I said it after Thanksgiving and I'm saying it again, it is very important to learn these tools now. We might be tempted to say, "Blogging is dead, what is the next big thing?" but we need to remember that to lots of people, it is still cutting edge.

What online tool do you consider a daily necessity that makes your friends call you cutting edge?

posted by leah.jones

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