Is Facebook To Blame?
09 14 2009
I have really been having a hard time posting on here. Part of the problem is that the most time I have to post is during slow periods at work. But even though we have super fast federal grade Interwebs at work, it takes the work computers almost 5 minutes just to log into this site.
I think another factor that has led to the slowdown of this site has been Facebook. It was a lot easier to post one big meaningful (at least to me) post every day or so when I wasn't posting 5 small status updates on Facebook daily.
Instead of making clever witty social commentary on this world famous contribution to the collective knowledge of the Internet, I now post stupid little updates like "I LOL'd" on Facebook.
I have been able to hold back and not touch Twitter with a ten-foot pole. I always hated MySpace, I just feel like I will have a seizure just by looking at that site. Talk about sensory overload. When Facebook first started I would always tell people that Facebook was just for amateurs who didn't know how to Blog. Now I feel like the relict of the mid-late 2000's for having a Blog while everybody else is acting all cool on Facebook. How old fashioned of me.
There is one thing I do prefer the Blog for: political/religious/morality topics. People know who I am on Facebook, and yes friends and family know me here. But the Blog does seem more anonymous to me. I try to avoid any real political discussion on Facebook, just because I don't want to have to turn around 4 hours later when I go to work and one of my Facebook friends starts bugging me about my political stand. I feel that old members of our Church group would have problems with my moderate/semi-liberal outlook on life and my feeling that the Conservative mainstream has lost touch with what Christianity and community is supposed to be about.
I also just miss being a goofball on here. I will make a solid effort to at least make a weekly post on here, but I would love to go back to making daily posts. But I don't want to post, just for the sake of posting. I hate when Blogs go through creative bumps and keep on posting anyway (even though I am doing a little of that myself), you can always tell that it is very forced writing instead of coming naturally. But from reading the Blogs on my handy list on the right side of this post it seems like I am not the only one who is having writers block.
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I think another factor that has led to the slowdown of this site has been Facebook. It was a lot easier to post one big meaningful (at least to me) post every day or so when I wasn't posting 5 small status updates on Facebook daily.
Instead of making clever witty social commentary on this world famous contribution to the collective knowledge of the Internet, I now post stupid little updates like "I LOL'd" on Facebook.
I have been able to hold back and not touch Twitter with a ten-foot pole. I always hated MySpace, I just feel like I will have a seizure just by looking at that site. Talk about sensory overload. When Facebook first started I would always tell people that Facebook was just for amateurs who didn't know how to Blog. Now I feel like the relict of the mid-late 2000's for having a Blog while everybody else is acting all cool on Facebook. How old fashioned of me.
There is one thing I do prefer the Blog for: political/religious/morality topics. People know who I am on Facebook, and yes friends and family know me here. But the Blog does seem more anonymous to me. I try to avoid any real political discussion on Facebook, just because I don't want to have to turn around 4 hours later when I go to work and one of my Facebook friends starts bugging me about my political stand. I feel that old members of our Church group would have problems with my moderate/semi-liberal outlook on life and my feeling that the Conservative mainstream has lost touch with what Christianity and community is supposed to be about.
I also just miss being a goofball on here. I will make a solid effort to at least make a weekly post on here, but I would love to go back to making daily posts. But I don't want to post, just for the sake of posting. I hate when Blogs go through creative bumps and keep on posting anyway (even though I am doing a little of that myself), you can always tell that it is very forced writing instead of coming naturally. But from reading the Blogs on my handy list on the right side of this post it seems like I am not the only one who is having writers block.
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