My personal website BrianSwann.COM attracts a little bit of attention due to the streaming webcam. Folks seem to like watching a cat sleep I guess.The camera webpage until today also included a chat widget from Meebo. I'm afraid that became a little problematic. Meebo is a very useful little gadget but requires work. You need to be logged on your Meebo account and listen for alerts otherwise people who'd like to chat with you feel you're just never there.
In the beginning I used Meebo as a customer support tool on one of my client websites and it worked very well. It allows you to create a closed group of chat clients without disclosing any personal information. For a personal website however, not so good.
The people I want to chat with, my friends and colleagues all have my MSN Messenger account and I'm almost always logged in to messenger. That's the place to reach me.
A further catharsis took place today when I officially discontinued my Facebook account. Facebook is probably a really good idea for chatty sociable in your face oooh! listen to the gossip kind of people but it's just not for me. I find it incredibly complex to use with all of its gadgets and widgets and addins, intrusive as hell when you have incessant posters in your friends list and an extremely poor substitute for simple email.
I'm also not comfortable with the world knowing my personal business. So many folks don't understand by posting on your wall you may as well go outside and spray paint on your house.
So to all of my personal friends and colleagues, chat with me on MSN. If you want to know what's going on in the cobweb infested dusty and cluttered attic I like to refer to as my brain, come here once in a while.
For anyone in the whole web world, feel free to email me. You remember how to do that right?
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