Abby the blogger, photographer, psychologist, and singer, also known as "abbyladybug" chats with Local Conversations at Helios cafe downtown Raleigh on social media, how she got started in blogging, why as a female bloggers it's not good to use your last name and what it's like being part of one of the Raleigh flickr groups. Abby also discusses how she likes to use her blog to share things she finds interesting rather it be a song in head or a popular movie. Abby answered Ginny from the blog question, has she dated someone she met via her blog or social network. Lastly Abby answers the question on how social networking/media sites has helped build her offline community.

You’ll have to excuses the background noise but we’re at Helios café and I love the environment.