The world was already crazy and small, but I think it's gotten both crazier and smaller over the course of my youth and young adulthood. We have some remarkable technology to thank for this. The telegraph machine evolved into the telephone, which became cordless, car-portable and finally cellular. Computers have been around forever (you know, since before I was born). My dad used to punch holes in cards and run his programs at the lab for hours, then repunch the cards to fix mistakes. Then computers got smaller... crazy smaller. They connected to each other, shared their data to servers. Ultimately... Voila! The internets were born!
Something about blogging has always left an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Isn't it kind of self-centered? Why display your thoughts for everyone else to see? I mean, people post some pretty deep, vulnerable thought on the internet. It's like they write in a private journal and proceed to make photocopies and staple them to power lines.
I've long since accustomed myself to the generational narcissism of Facebook. I was "one of those guys" who completely dismissed FB at first, but before I could ask, "so wait, what does poking actually do?" the event horizon was behind me and I was stretched 0ut like spaghetti as I conformed to the Faceblackhole. I'm getting a little carried away here, but the point is that facebook changed me.
Facebook has proven itself a powerful tool for event organization, photo sharing, networking, and completely wasting your life. It is a tool. It is both used and abused. One will use facebook to masterfully craft a beautiful oak table. Another will only injure their self and others.
The Blog is another instrument that can be used for both good and evil depending on the hands. Lately I've been profoundly inspired by a few friends' blogs that I actually read (past tense). Thus, I've decided to try my hand at it. I hope to use it as a tool to clarify my own thought. If it's for my own use, why post it on the internet? I suppose that I want to share thoughts with others. Not everything; there are some thoughts that are simply private and not postworthy, and these I will scribe in a personal journal when I sense the need. I am one, however, who tends to keep my thoughts to myself, listening to and processing conversation while others are vocal. Perhaps by sharing my thoughts publicly I'll provide more material for conversation with friends. Maybe I'll discover that I want to be a journalist. Ultimately, it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I need to go to work now :)
