Blog Number Three

Maybe blogging's dead, or at its early stages of impending demise. With the onset of photoblogs and microblogs, why would a self-respecting web-dependent drone opt to read through or write a whole composition when he could easily browse through or create 140-character updates or pretty pictures along the way?

I think this generation of internet users have a different use for blogging. Nothing's personal anymore. Not like the glory years of tabulas, livejournal, and blogspot when 'bloggers' randomly spurted out thoughts and not care what anyone thinks but liked to have comments anyway. I guess my network just gave up on the thought of using internet time to pry into each other's deep, personal issues or whatnot.

At some point, I am gulity of quitting the written expression realm of intarnetz. It has been a long time since I deliberately lurked to check new entries on my blogroll (not that I have any; I just knew who to follow then). And yes, this may be due to lack of time and oh my gosh I think this is the age group where we outgrow things we did three years back.

I'm trying to recall the blogs I frequently visit in the past and how cool it was to nod and say, sometimes outloud, 'yeah, right on!' I don't have that luxury now.

Saturday over coffee with my ates, I got to thinking that perhaps this generation is much too busy that all they can afford are status updates, a link to a photo here and there, one click to like, retweet, reblog, share...

If they're too busy, how come some of them still have time to cultivate farms and whip up a mean main course on facebook? I guess the strokes are different now. Creativity has taken another form and I am lost in translation.

Am I the only one who likes to kick it old school? (Well, minus the fact that I do not blog in livejournal anymore because I only have three active friends there who are also facebook active)

It is my personal belief that my multiple social networking sites are up for specific reasons. Multiply for photos (and occasional blogging), friendster for memories' sake (just so everyone knows how cool I am for having one in 2003), livejournal for worldy blogs (haha), and facebook for superpoke (and other stuff).

I do not add friends on facebook because I know why people want to expand their network over there.  I am sorry but you have no use for me for your mobs, posses, farms, night clubs, sororities, kitchens, hotels, what have you.

Now I'm thinking maybe it is not such a good thing to be stuck in the jurassic while everyone else has moved on. But I'm not usually one who goes for what is uso, so okay, this is how it's going to be for me. Loner even in cyberspace.