Wednesday, August 5, 2009

social not working

i just realized why i stopped blogging for so long. because there are too many social networks. everytime i've seen something interesting or read something interesting, or done something interesting lately that i've wanted to share online, i've had to face the aggravating choice of whether i should share it on twitter, facebook, or my blog. and, obviously, it takes a hell of a lot longer to share things on the two things in that list that aren't twitter.

where i first started my blog to keep in practice writing during grad school (even if i'm writing about the most mundane things, it's a different kind of writing than school writing), and that included finding cool things on the internet or in real life and then writing about those.

as much as i like twitter, somewhere along the way of becoming a fan of using it, i also became a fan of just sharing stuff or tweeting about stuff for the sake of being a presence on the intarwebs. and that's stupid. at least for me. so i'm going to try to go back to just writing about stuff for the sheer, unbearable joy (HYPERBOLE!) of it, rather than tweeting stuff because i wanna be a tweeter. some stuff is worth tweeting about, but, really, my life isn't that interesting. yeah, i know, that's a huge surprise to you perhaps. but it's true.

besides, i think that when i post a blog on here it shows up on facebook anyway.

sharing real life on the internet is just getting too complicated; at least if you don't want to spend 45 hours a day on your computer. which, as i learned this summer, i don't.

now that i've said that, i'm going to go work on archive materials on my computer for 45 hours.

a brother gots to get paid.

1 comments:

--V-- said...

I've also had the lovely thought that writing on my blog would...I don't know...help me keep in practice with the whole writing thing as well. I found that since I cut back on my blogging a bit, writing has been harder. Especially if I try to, God forbid, write anything meaningful. Fortuneatly, I suck ass with the whole Twitter business, so I have (mostly) one less thing to worry about. But yeah. I feel you.