Another one
First live journal entry since 2008, huh? Wow.
I have decided to start this up again and see how it goes. I've always loved Livejournal the best. It was the first true social network I cared about and it's still some of the best writing I've ever done. Sometimes if I'm feeling down on my self or just bored I log in to the ol' Troy_story and click through a random month of the calendar and hurtle back to a time when i was more fiercely creative and unfiltered in everything I did. The entries might be just a random phrase or picture I found, sometimes it was a long rambling rant about school or music or film, sometimes it took the form of poetry, splintering off into many disjointed and ridiculous flights of fancy. I really could/can make myself laugh with my crazy-ass self. I want to try again, try to harness that crazy and also the ability to have less filters, and to honestly look at myself and my daily activities and see that there is something there worth writing down, worth remembering. I can already tell this will be different but fun. Nobody uses LJ anymore so nobody will be reading (i think?). Before it was very much about impressing or confusing my 70 friends, but now it will be about organizing my thoughts, and just the practice of forming sentences and finding meaning in life.
During Livejournal there was also Friendster. I found the day in 2003 when I started Friendster. Wtf was friendster? I barely remember. I remember at one point everyone changed their picture to a black dot. That was protest.
Then there was Myspace. Myspace was all about your PAGE, and who you had in your Top 8, and your list of favorite bands, and your Bulletin Board, and maybe some cool comments about you down at the bottom of the page. That was about it. Myspace was the first place my band could have a web page with music to play, and everything you needed to know about us was there and we booked lots of shows that way.
Myspace ran its course after everyone realized there just wasn't a lot to do on it, and by the time I moved to San Francisco in 2009 many people had already started using Facebook. Cesar described facebook to me as "So highschool! It's great!" Well the rest is history. Now it's all about the endless feed, the new pictures, the sharing of (bad) news. Facebook has dominated and will probably(?) never really go away like LJ, Friendster, and Myspace did.
But Livejournal was the best.
My goal is to write a little bit everyday or at least a couple times a week. My life feels very boring right now and I want to convince myself that it isn't.
Wish me luck!
I have decided to start this up again and see how it goes. I've always loved Livejournal the best. It was the first true social network I cared about and it's still some of the best writing I've ever done. Sometimes if I'm feeling down on my self or just bored I log in to the ol' Troy_story and click through a random month of the calendar and hurtle back to a time when i was more fiercely creative and unfiltered in everything I did. The entries might be just a random phrase or picture I found, sometimes it was a long rambling rant about school or music or film, sometimes it took the form of poetry, splintering off into many disjointed and ridiculous flights of fancy. I really could/can make myself laugh with my crazy-ass self. I want to try again, try to harness that crazy and also the ability to have less filters, and to honestly look at myself and my daily activities and see that there is something there worth writing down, worth remembering. I can already tell this will be different but fun. Nobody uses LJ anymore so nobody will be reading (i think?). Before it was very much about impressing or confusing my 70 friends, but now it will be about organizing my thoughts, and just the practice of forming sentences and finding meaning in life.
During Livejournal there was also Friendster. I found the day in 2003 when I started Friendster. Wtf was friendster? I barely remember. I remember at one point everyone changed their picture to a black dot. That was protest.
Then there was Myspace. Myspace was all about your PAGE, and who you had in your Top 8, and your list of favorite bands, and your Bulletin Board, and maybe some cool comments about you down at the bottom of the page. That was about it. Myspace was the first place my band could have a web page with music to play, and everything you needed to know about us was there and we booked lots of shows that way.
Myspace ran its course after everyone realized there just wasn't a lot to do on it, and by the time I moved to San Francisco in 2009 many people had already started using Facebook. Cesar described facebook to me as "So highschool! It's great!" Well the rest is history. Now it's all about the endless feed, the new pictures, the sharing of (bad) news. Facebook has dominated and will probably(?) never really go away like LJ, Friendster, and Myspace did.
But Livejournal was the best.
My goal is to write a little bit everyday or at least a couple times a week. My life feels very boring right now and I want to convince myself that it isn't.
Wish me luck!