(...yeah. OK I admit the only reason I went ahead and made that pie chart is because I've been dying to try out the fancy new templates in Excel. They are pretty, no?)
Anyway, reading both my and my friends' posts made me really nostalgic for the days when Xanga was a big deal. No matter how banal the subject, blogging made everything seem much more interesting, which is why I always looked forward to writing new entries and reading my friends' updates. I guess Facebook and Twitter have replaced those social outlets but to me, status updates and tweets are usually just too short to inspire anything beyond a flash of emotion or response. In fact, 99.9% of the time they are just dumb and annoying. I don't care if your dog just threw up on you. Or if you need a nap. Or that you are so full from Korean BBQ. Worse yet are the status updates involving cheesy-ass lyrics ("Rose Fan you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess") or obscure/vindictive/mysterious comments ("Rose Fan just came full circle") that nobody understands except for you and your SO or group of emo buddies.
I'm not saying that these people are not interesting - just that Facebook and Twitter make it easy to simplify our lives into unsatisfying little snippets of information, opinion, and emotion. And I am often guilty of dumb status updates myself. But I just feel like I have more to say most of the time and I suppose that's why I came crawling back to blogging. My old Xanga feels like an ex-boyfriend - something that makes me both cringe and smile at the same time - so I decided to leave it alone and start somewhere new. But I assure you, the general gist of things I blog about will be more or less the exact same - see the pie chart for details.
I'm amused by this post - and I agree about the facebook status updates / tweets. Too short to be anything good. Someone needs to fix that. Such a fatal flaw means they probably won't be the end all social networking services unless they adapt. I take solace in that.
ReplyDeleteIf you know who this is, well then, kudos to you. I like that anti-homecoming took up ten percent of your pie chart. Now back to work... ^^
"Rose Fan will you marry me"
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ReplyDeleteXanga was frequently about really inane and uniteresting things that were no fun to read through since most people put little effort into them. At least you can make a funny or insightful tweet with relatively little effort, so they are more fun to read (for most people)that Xangas. I think you used Xanga differently from most people. You've always been willing to put more effort into these things for some reason, so twitter and facebook arent really good options for you. In the end, the real problem isn't Facebook or Twitter, it's people who aren't willing to put effort into sharing.
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