Brooke Alden Hoffman's Page

I had no idea what I was getting into when I joined second life. I have played the Sims before, and it reminds me a lot of that...with endless possibilities. The first step that I took was friending Professor Reid and even that took me 8 years to figure out. I think that I am Second-Life challenged! So then I figured out that I could search events. Holy flip, it is really like you are getting ready to go to these things. The first event that I went to was a Haunted house. I was looking pretty ro… Continue

So i joined plurk. I like it...but I am socially isolated because I have no friends. It allowed me to create a nice earthy layout. I like the timeline feature although I was a little confused by it at first. I am a little put off by the beheaded animal in the right corner. I think that I am going to have to get used to that. I guess it is better than a beheaded human being in the corner. It reminds me of twitter because most of your attention is drawn to the "what are you doing?" question in the… Continue

For the most part I try and put as little information about my personal life on the web as possible. I will blog about what I think about current worldly issues and my thoughts on Lindsay Lohan and her new girl pal DJ Sam Ronson but I am not likely to write about my latest break-up, hook-up, or make-up if you get what I mean. So what do I look like to strangers. On the book of faces I give very little information. Pictures speak louder then words, and after viewing the 450 that I have posted on… Continue

Hungry for more communities to join, I searched which ones were most popular. www.bebo.com immediately caght my eye because I like the way the word "bebo" just rolls off the tongue. I go through the familiar steps of giving up extremely personal information and feel a little violated after the process is done. Why does it need to know my phone number, my screen name, my birthday, the date of my last menstrual cycle...ok, it didn't really ask me that but signing up for Bebo suddenly felt oddly li… Continue

After months of abuse and neglect I decided to revisit my lonely Myspace page solely because of this course. I could barely remember what email address and password I had first used. It was not always like this. I used to have a very personal relationship with "the space." In the beginning it was fantastic. I was about 16 years of age, and my parents had just bought me a cell phone and my own computer. Through AIM I saw an advertisement for Myspace. And then I was hooked. Soon my page was all pi… Continue