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as very few of you all know, i deleted my myspace quite a bit ago. (something like 1 1/2 months ago.)
now that i don't have one, i ask myself this question:
why don't people work on their personalities in real life instead of wasting countless hours of effort trying to make their myspace that much more "cool?"
think about it. even the most unpleasant of people have pages where they claim they're "outgoing" and blah blah blah, but if you really were "outgoing", wouldn't you turn off the computer, stand your ass up, and go show it rather than type it?
it boggles my mind how certain teens can sit at the computer for hours on end trying to get the perfect "background" image or song to put on his/her profile. i think online communities like those make teens more immune to withdrawling from society and almost having an "alter-ego" online. how many times have some of you met someone in real life, eventually go to their myspace page afterwards, and feel like they are two completely different people? its so easy to claim one thing and be another in person that it's almost scary to me that humans have that power.
then again, Livejournal is an online community, so why do I still have one?
I think i still have a livejournal because people feel so much more compelled to be themselves. Think about it-- how many people make up their lives through journal entries on this website? it's too much information about your inner self-- it would be much too hard. I don't ever remember writing something false in the almost 6 years that i've had one. i don't feel the need to-- everyone who cares about my thoughts enough can read them in great detail. whomever doesn't really care can ignore mine. it's that simple.
just a thought i guess.
now that i don't have one, i ask myself this question:
why don't people work on their personalities in real life instead of wasting countless hours of effort trying to make their myspace that much more "cool?"
think about it. even the most unpleasant of people have pages where they claim they're "outgoing" and blah blah blah, but if you really were "outgoing", wouldn't you turn off the computer, stand your ass up, and go show it rather than type it?
it boggles my mind how certain teens can sit at the computer for hours on end trying to get the perfect "background" image or song to put on his/her profile. i think online communities like those make teens more immune to withdrawling from society and almost having an "alter-ego" online. how many times have some of you met someone in real life, eventually go to their myspace page afterwards, and feel like they are two completely different people? its so easy to claim one thing and be another in person that it's almost scary to me that humans have that power.
then again, Livejournal is an online community, so why do I still have one?
I think i still have a livejournal because people feel so much more compelled to be themselves. Think about it-- how many people make up their lives through journal entries on this website? it's too much information about your inner self-- it would be much too hard. I don't ever remember writing something false in the almost 6 years that i've had one. i don't feel the need to-- everyone who cares about my thoughts enough can read them in great detail. whomever doesn't really care can ignore mine. it's that simple.
just a thought i guess.