This post was interesting, in and of itself. The article was fascinating. It took me until now to read it, probably therefore proving the article's point. Oops. But seriously, I feel like that's true and this post is absolutely true.
LiveJournal has been ridiculously non-existent lately. I miss it. I'm like you in that sense - i'm all about the wordiness and the thinking through words and --- haha I just thought I heard the facebook pinging noise and got distracted --- but this post, your post, is what I love about LiveJournal, the longish winded posts about real things and people's lives and the world. I really really miss that. Really really really.
And I use twitter, but I'm over twitter, too. I use it for me, because I've found that the more I started using it, the more I started needing to use it. I'd update about something stupid and then when I had something stupid to update about, it would be something I'd feel compelled to text to Twitter. I hate myself for it. But somewhere along the way, recently, I stopped caring. I only get the updates of people I know on my phone, with the exception of cnn breaking news and borders, and even borders is likely to go away soon. And even that usually seems like too much. It's all useless information that clearly people - myself included - text to twitter because they have no one to text it to, because it's mundane, stupid, utterly pointless. And, hell, in my case it's often so cryptic that it's clearly only something that I understand, but yet I do it anyway.
And as for tumblr, I don't use it the way I'm supposed to. It's a public livcejournal, in a sense, for me. It's something that I can share with a couple of real life people - with a few people from here, sort of - and that's it. It's still a place for my thoughts, and sometimes they're half thoughts or cryptic ones that don't make sense, but sometimes they're long-winded and messy - the same way my posts are on here, sort of, though it's different becaause it's public and clearly public and i think my writing style changes because of that. The point is that I don't use tumblr like I'm supposed to; I use it how I want to and because I love the simplicity of it, the hasic layout, hell, even the lack of lj-cuts as one person I follow (lol a band guy?) so nicely noted.
I hate the way the internet is changing things, Alex. And I know we're a part of it and it is going to change, but I don't like watching the local news and listening to them tell me to follow them on twitter and check their facebook page for updates. I don't want the news in 140-character bursts, and I don't want to read about what Sally NewsAnchor thought of the flag day fireworks. I don't care. I want the news to be the news and the internet to be the internet, but I'm so far in the minority that it doesn't matter, because it's going to change and it's going to stay that way, if Time can have covers about Twitter and Obama's twitter can re-tweet the whitehouse twitter. That's the world we've somehow come to inhabit, and I'm really not sure I like it at all.
Basically I love this post.
Also it's totally the most hypocritical thing ever, because you post like once a month now, darling. ♥
(P.S. I miss you; why don't we talk like at all anymore? :(.)
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Date: 2009-06-21 03:09 am (UTC)LiveJournal has been ridiculously non-existent lately. I miss it. I'm like you in that sense - i'm all about the wordiness and the thinking through words and --- haha I just thought I heard the facebook pinging noise and got distracted --- but this post, your post, is what I love about LiveJournal, the longish winded posts about real things and people's lives and the world. I really really miss that. Really really really.
And I use twitter, but I'm over twitter, too. I use it for me, because I've found that the more I started using it, the more I started needing to use it. I'd update about something stupid and then when I had something stupid to update about, it would be something I'd feel compelled to text to Twitter. I hate myself for it. But somewhere along the way, recently, I stopped caring. I only get the updates of people I know on my phone, with the exception of cnn breaking news and borders, and even borders is likely to go away soon. And even that usually seems like too much. It's all useless information that clearly people - myself included - text to twitter because they have no one to text it to, because it's mundane, stupid, utterly pointless. And, hell, in my case it's often so cryptic that it's clearly only something that I understand, but yet I do it anyway.
And as for tumblr, I don't use it the way I'm supposed to. It's a public livcejournal, in a sense, for me. It's something that I can share with a couple of real life people - with a few people from here, sort of - and that's it. It's still a place for my thoughts, and sometimes they're half thoughts or cryptic ones that don't make sense, but sometimes they're long-winded and messy - the same way my posts are on here, sort of, though it's different becaause it's public and clearly public and i think my writing style changes because of that. The point is that I don't use tumblr like I'm supposed to; I use it how I want to and because I love the simplicity of it, the hasic layout, hell, even the lack of lj-cuts as one person I follow (lol a band guy?) so nicely noted.
I hate the way the internet is changing things, Alex. And I know we're a part of it and it is going to change, but I don't like watching the local news and listening to them tell me to follow them on twitter and check their facebook page for updates. I don't want the news in 140-character bursts, and I don't want to read about what Sally NewsAnchor thought of the flag day fireworks. I don't care. I want the news to be the news and the internet to be the internet, but I'm so far in the minority that it doesn't matter, because it's going to change and it's going to stay that way, if Time can have covers about Twitter and Obama's twitter can re-tweet the whitehouse twitter. That's the world we've somehow come to inhabit, and I'm really not sure I like it at all.
Basically I love this post.
Also it's totally the most hypocritical thing ever, because you post like once a month now, darling. ♥
(P.S. I miss you; why don't we talk like at all anymore? :(.)