I made my first website on Geocities. I started my first blog when they were still called journals. I was working on social networking software before it was called that. It meant I was on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms long before most ‘normal’ people.
After being early to join the social web I was also early to leave, for the usual reasons (offline life is more fun than online life!). I hadn’t touched this blog in about 8 years, and have barely posted on Twitter for 10 years. When facebook introduced banner images, I used it to inform my facebook friends I was not actually logging in to facebook. …