* 1930’s  First computers
* 1950’s First remote connections between computers
* 1969    ARPANET (the first real computer network and a basis of todays internet)
* 1972    The actuall term “internet” used for the first time and first e-mail sent
* 1983    TCP/IP architecture universally adopted
* 1989    Archie. The first metadata search engine
* 1991    Gopher and hypertext
* 1992    Delphi (first commercial on-line service)
* 1993   Mosaic (the first graphical browser)
* 1994   World Wide Web Consortium formed
* 1998  The release of Windows98 and the rise of PCs
* 27th December 2008  Mohammed Ali Rogers threw a digital snowball on Ming C’ (Does Ming C’ want to throw back?)

We really don’t want to end it like this, do we?

So this is going to all my facebook friends. Please don’t throw snowballs on me! Do not invite me for digital cup of tea! Do not send me electronic kisses and do not ask me to take “which celebrity are you?” quitz! I really don’t want to share my (and yours) data with some weird application to do all those things. What I want is to talk to you. And I want to talk about things I was never been able to talk about before. In a way I was never been able to do before. Social media is a chance to meet the people who matter to us. To stay in contact with friends, that could be long forgotten. It is a chance to transform our lifes and thus transform the society and the world around us. Social Media is changing the equation. We cease to be consumers and we start to be marketers. We cease to be voters and we start to be policy makers.I want to use this great new tool to change the world around me. I want to be heard and I want to be understood. I don’t want to waste my information overloaded time throwing digital snowballs. Instead, I would like to know about your favorite blog or book. I would like to join some local group to get out and meet some real people. I would like to hear about the crazy idea you had this morning! The 90’s are over my friend. Now there are people out-there who actually listen to you.  Don’t waste your time replying to all those tacky apps and better do something that have sense. I think with facebook we’ve reached something of a critical mass of users to really change the way we create our social realities. There is a bunch of good applications outhere (Like NetworkedBlogs I installed today), that really make a difference. In the end of the day. Lot of those tacky requests were not even send by your friends and you are just talking to the machine programmed to waste your time.