Maybe I should start using this thing people call a "blog" more often, because I find myself continually checking facebook to see what people are up to or I look at other people's blogs which are really just people's different expressions and opinions and photographs. The paths you walk through the world wide web are crazy! I ended up at the blog of a tech guy's daughter. Her profile pic looks likes she is 16. Takes good pics. But come on, now I'm talking about some random guy's 16 year old daughter's photoblog profile picture. How would that work in real life?
The BBC create a great little sketch about the ridiculousness of facebook in real life. And yet, it is amazing how comfortable we feel to go into people's lives and find out what they are writing, reading and taking pictures of. It is even more amazing how willing we are to let people in on our lives, our thoughts, our every moves. It is easier now to get to know someone online then it was to talk to a guy, that I had met at a networking mixer, that I am sitting next to in the library...gosh, that is a mouthfull...if these were online, I would just have to click, clic, cli...and I have a new friend.
Now looking at my web viewing habits, and how they have driven me to blab on because I want another excuse to engage in the online world, I wonder, does the increase of information and opinions online increase our own opinions? So much so that it drives us to contribute to the pile? In my case, tonight, yes it has.
As I have posted a couple times back, I have no idea what I can write on this blog. And I have been wondering why that is? I think it is because, I feel that I talk about my ideas with my family, my friends, random people, so that by the time it comes to writing it all down, there is nothing because I have made my ideas heard already. But seeing tonight, sitting in the library, alone, at 1am....making a blog post seems like a good way to get my ideas out because I have no one here to share them with. ...Except the guy I know from the mixer. That is hard. It's easier just click 'Post'.
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