bells and whistles
For some unimaginable reason, I have a Livejournal and a Facebook and a Twitter and a Tumblr. To say nothing of the ol' MySpaces and Friendster and Photobucket and Youtube and Reverb Nation and God why god why god why
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Yeah, I've had a definite shift in the way I use all these sites post-Jhonen. I've realized that I should probably shed all but 20 or 30 of my facebook "friends" to actually get the experience I want. But, instead of going through that labor-intensive process I've just created lists and just skip past the regular FB feed, half of whom I can't even really remember how I'm supposed to know them.
I like them as tools of long-distance communication, particularly since we're in that stage where we can't leave the house much. The technology is still so breath-taking to me, but I get so bogged down in how, in actual practice, it's usually just so boring. It's a common complaint, sure, but I still can't get over that we have the ability to take pictures and videos from wherever we are and instantly share them with hundreds of people all over the world via this mind-boggling globally-spanning technology, and 9 times out of 10 that picture or video is just your boring-ass lunch. Wow, you're eating tacos right now? You don't say.
THERE OUGHT TO BE RULES. But, then no one would follow them, so what does it matter? Don't post food. That's my big one. Don't post food unless it's interesting. So many people on my list (usually from San Antonio) just posting all day, "At Taco Cabana. What should I get?"
Sara posted a pic of a lobster roll in Boston today. That makes the cut (nice looking lobster roll, and the point is more that you're on vacation.) I posted bacon cupcakes because I thought that was interesting enough (wouldn't post, say, the brownies I made the next day.) My friend Seth posted a pic of an artichoke cut in half and it was just a gorgeous picture. Just--you and other parents know. I've got basically five seconds to look at the internet before Jhonen starts crying, so entertain me. I feel like my life is so wasted when I check up on social media and it's just clogged with dozens of people going "What should I wear?" or "Cold today." I love the internet because it enables me to learn new things every single day, but time and space is finite, and you just filled it by telling me that it's raining. Thanks.
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