Google+ is my first foray into social media. I just never got on the MySpace, Facebook*, or Twitter wagons.

I decided to try out Google+ because I knew I needed to wade in at some point and stop fighting the future, and a new social media was as good a place to start as any. That, and I was intrigued by Howard Tayler’s early review of G+.

It’s probably not hard to imagine that at first I was obsessed with it, then I forgot about it for a week or so, and now I’ve got a more or less even keel.

The best part has been the development of Writing Hangouts, and starting a circle called “Writing Community.” I’ve had the opportunity to connect with a ton of fellow writers and professionals in the field.

It’s also fun and fulfilling to just share something now and again, like how it hurts so good to eat horseradish chips.

I’ve also seen it used as an unexpected source of tender comfort for those who are having a terrible day and are just looking for someone, anyone, another human being, to say “I’ve felt the same way, too.”

I haven’t yet fully braved Twitter or Facebook, but we’ll see how it goes.

I had a pretty bad opinion of social media for a while, but now that I’m out from under my rock or off my soap box or whatever, I’m enjoying the ride.

Feel free to say hi out there.

*To amend that, I had a brief stay on Facebook as “Mike Nul” so that I could participate in forum discussions with a local Star Wars Gaming Group, but that was the extent of my experience.