is the ridiculous amount of blogs out there for people to use in finding themselves?
or an attempt to put a mark on the world somehow?
is the ridiculous amount of people putting info about themselves on facebook a true act of boredom or a desperate attempt for someone to find them interesting?
in this day and age, how is it that we can know someone so well without ever seeing them? you could speak two words to someone a day and know quite a bit about them or read what they put out to their numerous facebook friends.
a lot of people consider letters to be more personable. while this may be true, what is it that makes it so different? i suppose letters take time. they take time to write. time to send. then you have to *gasp* THINK about a response! and you have a while to mull over it!
at anyrate, instant gratification of knowing people without knowing them is quite... well, that's where society is going. (says the person whose best friend is in san fran and she only talks to her on facebook with the occasional post card...)
having an actual conversation with someone is a rare ocurrance, whether it's fb messaging or otherwise.
nowadays people talk at people, not to people. words roll off of our heads and out of our ears because we get to pick and choose what is 'said' to us when we are on the internet.
i realize that this is partially true with books aswell, yet there it's quite a bit different. an actual attention span is required. (great scot, not the A word!) i may have a short attention span, yet when it involves a person that i know, i focus. (...on that person and several other things while mainly focusing on said person)
so why do we post our lives for all to see?
a lot of people desperatly want to be found... interesting.
they want people to know about them.
they want people to admire them.
they want people to feel sorry for them.
they want people to become acquainted with them.
what are they missing?
well, as my communications notes reveal, the source send the message out, the receiver receives the message, receiver gives feedback, feedback goes to source. on the internet the source sends out the message... but no one has to receive it.
the message can be received... but no one has to give feedback.
great system, huh?
while there is no feedback, the source continues to send messages at people...
why?
i think i may have been one of those people... not sure. then again, haven't we all been like that at times?
why do we think so little of ourselves that we are transmitting messages at everyone receieved by no one that mean little because while people may learn of us in the process we learn nothing of them, and a relationship is two ways! if your friend knows everything about you and you know nothing of them, who has a friend and who does not? do either of you?
don't we do this?
yeah. we do.
is this being selfish, narcissistic, or just desperate?
are we afriad that real conversations will fail?
or are we not capable of them?
or do we find ourselves sitting alone with no one to be with save yourself?
we're all guilty of it.
i just post on facebook what i'm thinking at the moment, some quote i like, etc.
hypocitircal?
possibly.
yet all things should be in moderation.
including moderation.
and props to anyone who knows what this blog's title references...
i can't end this post on a cliche.
so i will end it on an amazing word...
JELLO.
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