Lameness is a prerequisite for popularity
The only thing that is really moving me to post right now is the fact that I'm procrastinating from practicing my presentation, but who cares, you're getting a tasty tidbit, right?
I'm kind of disappointed that LiveJournal is basically dead nowadays. I even miss MySpace somewhat. It's not that LiveJournal and MySpace are awesome in and of themselves, but I hate the kind of network that facebook has become. I won't deny that facebook is the superior website in terms of features and whatnot, but as Eric once said, facebook is like sitting with your friends at a restaurant only to realize your parents are at one of the neighboring booths, and that your boss is at the other. Everyone feels the need to "keep it clean" and hesitates to express themselves when it might look unflattering to a colleague or superior whose opinion otherwise wouldn't matter. Even if we refuse to accept add requests from relatives and professional contacts, we still can't share explicit humor or post on someone's wall that we fucked their mom without their mother actually seeing it. The facebook mentality makes everyone seem like damn yuppie nowadays; people limit themselves to short, generic, upbeat blurbs the likes of, "Rory and Melissa are here! We are making taco-dinis and chocolate covered raspberry sorbet! Life is good!" Bullshit. The majority of your waking life is a tedious monotony and you know it. Is life really good when having friends over for ice cream is such a noteworthy event that you have to stop what you're doing to inform all of facebook about it?
I miss the days when I could log onto LiveJournal and find long posts where my friends spilled their guts, shared deliciously inappropriate stories/media, kept me informed with what's going on in their lives, etc. It's not that I enjoy reading about my friends' drama for my own entertainment, but it's humanizing (for lack of a better word) to know that I'm not the only one whose cheerful suburban existence doesn't consist purely of hanging out, going to the gym, and eating applewood smoked bacon fritters served over a delicious creme fraiche sauce. Even though LiveJournal has become somewhat of an "emo receptacle" (I guess people run out of chipper things to say after expending them all on facebook), I still find emo posts to be worthwhile reading. I am at a point in my life where I feel overwhelmed with expectations and responsibilities, and that, at least on the inside, I have become a shell of my former self; even though people may feel like they are being annoying/immature/immodest/burdening/whatever by posting such things, I find like-minded posts to be much more relatable than one-line status updates about pomegranate cheesecake. I find it a relief to know that other people think such things. Everyone is quick to cite how sad it is that we use the internet as a substitute for actual human contact, but (at least for the people whose posts I would care to read) it's kind of unrealistic to expect that we would see each other in person more than a handful of times a year anymore. It's not as if cutting down on online interaction is going to move me to spend more face time with my friends; we are dispersed hundreds of miles apart throughout the southeast, and we have substantial amounts of shit to do. Sad as it may be, we can't seem to justify taking the time to drop what we are doing for anything short of a wedding or funeral. That leaves me little other means of keeping up with my friends than the internet (you all know how I feel about the phone), and I think that's better than nothing.
I'm kind of disappointed that LiveJournal is basically dead nowadays. I even miss MySpace somewhat. It's not that LiveJournal and MySpace are awesome in and of themselves, but I hate the kind of network that facebook has become. I won't deny that facebook is the superior website in terms of features and whatnot, but as Eric once said, facebook is like sitting with your friends at a restaurant only to realize your parents are at one of the neighboring booths, and that your boss is at the other. Everyone feels the need to "keep it clean" and hesitates to express themselves when it might look unflattering to a colleague or superior whose opinion otherwise wouldn't matter. Even if we refuse to accept add requests from relatives and professional contacts, we still can't share explicit humor or post on someone's wall that we fucked their mom without their mother actually seeing it. The facebook mentality makes everyone seem like damn yuppie nowadays; people limit themselves to short, generic, upbeat blurbs the likes of, "Rory and Melissa are here! We are making taco-dinis and chocolate covered raspberry sorbet! Life is good!" Bullshit. The majority of your waking life is a tedious monotony and you know it. Is life really good when having friends over for ice cream is such a noteworthy event that you have to stop what you're doing to inform all of facebook about it?
I miss the days when I could log onto LiveJournal and find long posts where my friends spilled their guts, shared deliciously inappropriate stories/media, kept me informed with what's going on in their lives, etc. It's not that I enjoy reading about my friends' drama for my own entertainment, but it's humanizing (for lack of a better word) to know that I'm not the only one whose cheerful suburban existence doesn't consist purely of hanging out, going to the gym, and eating applewood smoked bacon fritters served over a delicious creme fraiche sauce. Even though LiveJournal has become somewhat of an "emo receptacle" (I guess people run out of chipper things to say after expending them all on facebook), I still find emo posts to be worthwhile reading. I am at a point in my life where I feel overwhelmed with expectations and responsibilities, and that, at least on the inside, I have become a shell of my former self; even though people may feel like they are being annoying/immature/immodest/burdening/whatever by posting such things, I find like-minded posts to be much more relatable than one-line status updates about pomegranate cheesecake. I find it a relief to know that other people think such things. Everyone is quick to cite how sad it is that we use the internet as a substitute for actual human contact, but (at least for the people whose posts I would care to read) it's kind of unrealistic to expect that we would see each other in person more than a handful of times a year anymore. It's not as if cutting down on online interaction is going to move me to spend more face time with my friends; we are dispersed hundreds of miles apart throughout the southeast, and we have substantial amounts of shit to do. Sad as it may be, we can't seem to justify taking the time to drop what we are doing for anything short of a wedding or funeral. That leaves me little other means of keeping up with my friends than the internet (you all know how I feel about the phone), and I think that's better than nothing.