Erieversible

New slant, new rants….

Why not drop in at WNY Natter ?

After some consideration Erieversible has come to the end of its natural life.  It was started to tell a story of trans-atlantic migration and now that the migration is at an end it really has nowhere to go in its current form.  We’re now settling in to what we hope will be our family home for many years to come and are battling the same hassles that everybody else is battling.  So, what would get posted on Erieversible would be our daily existence, and I’m not inspired by that. 

So, as from today, Erieversible (as is) ends. 

We still welcome questions from anyone contemplating a trans-atlantic move.  We’re still willing to help on any matters that we can.  We’ll still be here.  We just won’t be recording the boring minutiae of our daily life in Western New York.

Blogging can be fun, though.  So it is quite likely that after a short rest (using the time to catch up with the backlog of work on the children’s websites) we’ll probably be back, under a different name, recording entries from a different angle.  I just have to decide the angle and come up with an inspired name for it all. 

In the last couple of weeks I’ve received 3 invitations to join someone’s account on Facebook.  Why?

I must admit that I just don’t see the point in these social networking sites.  While we live a certain portion of our life online, with Erieversible, with the kids having websites, with other ventures, it seems that Facebook is a step too far.  Have these people got no-one more worthy than me to invite onto their accounts?  

Even the kids’ websites are now being reconsidered.  They were set up for distant friends and family, and while the move to the US has brought a lot of those people nearer it has also created a whole new subset for that audience.  However, just how much personal information should be available online?  One visitor to the kids’ websites has emailed to say they enjoy watching the kids grow up.  Pardon????  That could be scary.

I guess it is a time for contemplation about just how much goes into the public domain.  How much is published but secured behind access restrictions.  It is quite scary just how much information about individuals you can find out online nowadays.  Much of that information was always in the public domain but not so immediately accessible.

Time for serious contemplation about how to take things forward….