Final Blog! Senior.com and their web 1.0 style has not seen any new comments or members so i stopped looking at that. Seniors barely look at facebook or talk about anything other than being grandparents. But Snabbo has been a great website for me. I have gotten four members on my 50's film group in 3 weeks which I used as a good sign because as I've come to learn that seniors go online periodically not constantly like many of my friends. As a community the members consider the website as a part of their identity by using words like our when talking about the website or we when trying to organize. Even when people have never met face to face, like me and all my friends on this website, I feel like I know them and am a part of a niche group of people. I know Barbara better than anyone. She loves to talk to new people and help them start projects. My friend John likes old movies, because he joined my group, and loves music. He is a very media focused man. And a new friend ebass, which stands for eric bass, excepted my friend request because he is an avid Badger fan(if only he knew). We had a small conversation yesterday about the RoseBowl and how fun the season has been. He asked me what I had studied in Madison in the 60's and I told him Poly Sci, which in those times was very exciting.
This experience showed me that seniors wanted to be in this community and form strong bonds.
I also noticed how their experiences in the 50's and 60's were always compared to today's in my conversation with John. He compares music of the 60's and his experiences with the way people have now. His experiences aren't just memories anymore but they are ever changing ideas. Of course the music back then was better than it is now, but he couldn't have thought that back then so I thought that was a cool way these experiences change with time. I hope in the future this community will become more popular because i think its cool that seniors have reached a time in history where finding lost friends and loved ones is easier than ever and snabbo can make that happen. This has been insightful and fun over the course of the semester, and hopefully when technology changes when im old i can change with it like these people have.
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