I am lying here in the guest bedroom of my parent’s home.  My son, Daniel, is asleep next to me, snoring that snore when a child’s sinuses are slightly congested, but not fully clogged.  He isn’t wearing his new Batman pajamas, but his old camouflage ones.  He tends to choose his military referenced clothing when we come here.  I guess being so near Fort Benning reminds him that I was in the Army.

Savannah,  my teenage daughter, is no doubt, exploring Facebook or MySpace.  The chat mechanisms that those sites offer, seem to be more appealing to kids than standard Instant Messaging clients.  One advantage I think the social network site chat windows over regular IMs is that regular IM clients are usually running in the background “in case” someone tries to message you.  On Facebook, for example, you only show online if you are logged into Facebook.  It is a safe assumption, that since you are logged into a social networking site, you are open to socializing, thus receptive to an unannounced message.  It is far more common for someone to be working on the computer and receive a IM message at an inopportune time.

Well, off to sleep.

 

Joe.

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