Garden 2.0
You’re probably thinking that this sounds like a huge waste of time, and you would be right. A recent post on Folia posed the question, “How do you structure your time on Folia?” When you’re going online to discuss how you structure your online time-wasting activities, you know you’re in trouble.
Oh, and I promised I would explain about LibraryThing. Take this entire column and replace “gardening” with “books.” Then replace the names of all these social networking sites for gardeners with names like LibraryThing, Shelfari, and Goodreads. You get it, right? You can catalog all the books in your library, meet people who have all the same books you do and even join groups to discuss and swap books on, say, gardening. On LibraryThing you can even compare the books in your library to the books owned by famous dead people through a project called I See Dead People’s Books, in which historians, librarians and archivists are cataloging the libraries of Thomas Jefferson, Sylvia Plath, Franz Kafka, and others. (I share three books with the library of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but they are all three by F. Scott Fitzgerald, so that may not count.)
I hope you have found this little journey through horticultural social networking as exhausting and overwhelming as I have. All of these networks are starting to grow together, like invasive bindweed converging on itself at the end of summer. Now my Facebook friends can see what plants I’m growing on Folia and what books I’m reading on Shelfari; I can show my YouTube videos to my LinkedIn network; and I have no doubt that soon the books I’ve entered in LibraryThing will start Twittering to the movies in my Netflix queue. It’s a terrifying prospect that makes me wish those contractors working on Confusion Hill would cut the fiber optic line more often.
I’m going to back slowly away from the computer and go outside to pull some weeds. But if you’re hooked into any of these networks, send me a friend invitation. We can all use more friends, even if they are imaginary Internet friends who have come together for the sole purpose of spending more time in front of the computer without actually getting anything done.
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