Are you still surprised when you discover a friend on a new social network? The number of useful social media sites is growing. Specialist sites for our interests help keep us focused as opposed to facebook and twitter.
You have to be specific to be terrific, as my mentor used to say. Facebook and Twitter are great just so long as you have a good tool to agrregate the data (sly reference to PalRelay).
I recently joined SoundCloud and managed to get martynwalker as a username. A couple of days later I was contacted by an old school buddy.
How valuable is that? A school friend not spoken to since 1974 contacted me and we enjoyed a 36 year catchup that we couldn’t hoped to have done without social media.
He found me as I favourited a musician we both like and my username rang a bell (or should that be a triangle?).
My walks, hikes, rambles, kloofing, backpacking, excursions, treks, and walkabouts return to the starting point making it easy to plan your day.