Its funny how life is centered around the ports of communication today. I chat, i email, i telephone, I skype, I facebook . Yesterday I pinged my sister from my room to hers. I cannot resolve to remove any of these from my life cos that would mean cutting off all human interaction possible. I hate that.
Social life on the internet is more about comparison than what one is really about. Oh look she's put up pics - They've been to the bahamas and deep dived into the atlantic ocean- we should do that too. She's bought this really pretty dress at this place - looks good on her- I should try it too.
Isn't it a bit ridiculous to assume what I put up or dont put up on facebook is even indicative of who i am ? Assuming we know what the person is all about by their profile, logging in every hour to see if anyone has posted a status or pic that you can comment/like is indicative of how much the social network owns you.
Status on Facebook/orkut/twitter - its killing the concept of blogging- it did for me. Everything that I ever want to tell the world about is always one status message- one line. An opinion is stated on some else's status as a comment- another line. The truth is that I haven't bothered to take the effort to pen down my anger and opinions onto my blog. Blogs have become a channel of advertising the self. Period. Maybe its evolution and maybe that isnt such a bad thing.
This isnt really how i started off - Frustration dramatized but iced down now. Blogging tends to do that.
Social life on the internet is more about comparison than what one is really about. Oh look she's put up pics - They've been to the bahamas and deep dived into the atlantic ocean- we should do that too. She's bought this really pretty dress at this place - looks good on her- I should try it too.
Isn't it a bit ridiculous to assume what I put up or dont put up on facebook is even indicative of who i am ? Assuming we know what the person is all about by their profile, logging in every hour to see if anyone has posted a status or pic that you can comment/like is indicative of how much the social network owns you.
Status on Facebook/orkut/twitter - its killing the concept of blogging- it did for me. Everything that I ever want to tell the world about is always one status message- one line. An opinion is stated on some else's status as a comment- another line. The truth is that I haven't bothered to take the effort to pen down my anger and opinions onto my blog. Blogs have become a channel of advertising the self. Period. Maybe its evolution and maybe that isnt such a bad thing.
This isnt really how i started off - Frustration dramatized but iced down now. Blogging tends to do that.
2 comments:
Thats like, a whole different perspective to social networking :P
Not surprisingly, a recent study found that the breadth of the vocabulary used by folks has shrunk in the last decade.
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