So I've had the MySpace experience, although I mostly used it for blogs and becoming a fan of bands. Then came FaceBook, which I like, but don't like. Had to delete so many people because they couldn't be bothered to talk to me, or they were attention seeking whiners who got off on posting sad things just to get loving comments, or worse, screamed in capitals and bad English when really they should be telling the person who made them angry in the first place, not a social website.
Next was the Twitter phase. I don't really mind Twitter, I only have one person I actually know following me and that's fine. I don't want anyone to read them. It's not that the tweets are bad or anything. I just wanted to be able to post stuff without worrying about who would be reading it or have to follow people like it's expected of me.
Frankly, I don't know why everyone wants thousands of friends/followers. It just seems so cheap when it's just for the add, just another brick in the wall, so to speak. Some random I follow is funny, but pretty outspoken about fakes. That's fair enough, after all he's had a few fake friends on Twitter. Only.. he tells people (like me) with a non-headshot picture that I should 'man up' as it were and put it out there or else I'm fake.
This strikes me as weird, because both fakes HAD headshots. I don't care if someone thinks I'm fake. Just because this is MY account, doesn't mean I need to plaster my mug all over everything. It's fine for this guy, with his real name, real face, whatever. Maybe he hasn't had stalkers before or doesn't care. I have, and I do. If I want to put my picture as a rubber ducky, who is he to say I can't?
I'm not here for the benefit of anyone other than myself, and it's nice to not have the pressure of being myself sometimes. No, it doesn't help me in my quest to be a less private person, but sometimes I just want to post song lyrics. Sometimes I don't want everything to be 'real'. I've got enough of that as it is.
Next was the Twitter phase. I don't really mind Twitter, I only have one person I actually know following me and that's fine. I don't want anyone to read them. It's not that the tweets are bad or anything. I just wanted to be able to post stuff without worrying about who would be reading it or have to follow people like it's expected of me.
Frankly, I don't know why everyone wants thousands of friends/followers. It just seems so cheap when it's just for the add, just another brick in the wall, so to speak. Some random I follow is funny, but pretty outspoken about fakes. That's fair enough, after all he's had a few fake friends on Twitter. Only.. he tells people (like me) with a non-headshot picture that I should 'man up' as it were and put it out there or else I'm fake.
This strikes me as weird, because both fakes HAD headshots. I don't care if someone thinks I'm fake. Just because this is MY account, doesn't mean I need to plaster my mug all over everything. It's fine for this guy, with his real name, real face, whatever. Maybe he hasn't had stalkers before or doesn't care. I have, and I do. If I want to put my picture as a rubber ducky, who is he to say I can't?
I'm not here for the benefit of anyone other than myself, and it's nice to not have the pressure of being myself sometimes. No, it doesn't help me in my quest to be a less private person, but sometimes I just want to post song lyrics. Sometimes I don't want everything to be 'real'. I've got enough of that as it is.
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