To delete or not to delete...
I have been thinking about deleting MySpace & Facebook & Livejournal. The daily and automatic way I check them (ie: do absolutely NOTHING/ look at the exact same silly pictures of different people) makes me think there are better ways to spend my life - even if I've only wasted 5 minutes to an hour. I don't even really see what I'm looking at anymore, it all just goes through a brain filter, and yet I am habitually "checking" and occasionally "updating".
As if looking at posed pictures and posting my own will really communicate the goings-on of our varying, drifting lives. Our "about me's" are never really us.
There are so many people that I kind of wish I'd never "gotten back in touch with" so that I could retain my memories from when I last knew them, mostly in high school. My memory is going through a slow wash - processing these new strangers as they overlay past friends.
Plus there is that Big Brother feeling I get every time I log in.
The thing is, I'm terrified of completely cutting of connection with a number of people I really do care about, that I want to be in touch with, that haven't yet horrified me with bad page lay outs and questionable grammar.
I am, as of yet, undecided on the matter. If I knew I could count on email as a means of keeping in touch I'd delete them all today. But as experience has shown, it doesn't work or last in a permanent way.
Any thoughts? Does anyone even care about LJ anymore, or has it become the supernumerary of the internet?
Maybe I'll just wait for everyone to have gmail so we can use googletalk & orkut :D
http://www.orkut.com
Ha. I just negated this entire entry with my orkut comment.
Fucking internet.
As if looking at posed pictures and posting my own will really communicate the goings-on of our varying, drifting lives. Our "about me's" are never really us.
There are so many people that I kind of wish I'd never "gotten back in touch with" so that I could retain my memories from when I last knew them, mostly in high school. My memory is going through a slow wash - processing these new strangers as they overlay past friends.
Plus there is that Big Brother feeling I get every time I log in.
The thing is, I'm terrified of completely cutting of connection with a number of people I really do care about, that I want to be in touch with, that haven't yet horrified me with bad page lay outs and questionable grammar.
I am, as of yet, undecided on the matter. If I knew I could count on email as a means of keeping in touch I'd delete them all today. But as experience has shown, it doesn't work or last in a permanent way.
Any thoughts? Does anyone even care about LJ anymore, or has it become the supernumerary of the internet?
Maybe I'll just wait for everyone to have gmail so we can use googletalk & orkut :D
http://www.orkut.com
Ha. I just negated this entire entry with my orkut comment.
Fucking internet.