Happy Easter! And Happy April Fool's Day! Do try not to fall for any egg-related pranks.
So, it is now April, at least in my time zone, and for the last few years, April has traditionally been the month when I revive my flagging desire to blog by posting something here every day. But this year... I don't know. I think I might be done with that.
Because, honestly, there's a reason why I'm posting here less and less and less. This sort of personal blog, in 2018, feels like a relic of another era. These days, other platforms fill the function that spaces like this once did. The problem is, those other platforms don't really do much for me. I'm too long-winded for Twitter, and, anyway, not many people I know are on Twitter. And I can't even wrap my brain around places like Instagram and Tumblr, where posts seem to mostly revolve around images. I don't think in images. I certainly can't communicate in them.
Nowadays, of course, there is one place for personal thoughts and ruminations of various lengths, with or without pictures, to keep friends and family updated on your life and perhaps to reach out into the world at large. But every day, there are more and more reasons why I don't want to be on Facebook, even though every day it seems to get harder to actually participate in society without a Facebook account.
So, yeah, I dunno. I'm probably not ready to let this ol' place go completely dormant yet. I'm pretty sure I'll at least still pop in once a month and do the "currently" meme. That's a grand old tradition by now, and it's kind of fun, and it seems like a good way to check in. But pretending this thing is still a going cocern seems a little bit silly.
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My feelings on Facebook, Twitter and the rest are much the same as yours. I do have a Facebook account, but I make very little use of it.
ReplyDelete"These days, other platforms fill the function that spaces like this once did."
The trouble is, most of them don't but fulfil other functions instead, and those are for the most part functions that I have little interest in.
Well, they're the same function to the extent that they're ways to keep in touch with people and share your thoughts and things. But they don't do that in quite the same way, and that does make a real difference.
DeleteI fear the world is leaving us behind, my friend. There was a period of a couple of decades in there where the internet seemed tailor-made for my own social needs and desires, but I fear that era may be passing.
While I have no love for Facebook, I'm almost always on Twitter. That said, I kind of miss the era of longer blogs. Last year, I started updating my own only about once a month, and I haven't updated it at all this year so far. :(
ReplyDeleteI think I know all of two people on Twitter, counting you. :)
DeleteI suspect this blog is slowly going the way yours did. Ah, well. We we see, I guess.
Please don't go! (I don't want to be the last dinosaur.)
ReplyDeleteThis is a good forum to share with many people something unusual that happened to you, or you can share lots of astronomy or Dr. Who links that others might not be aware of. You can mention the latest ways that your cat tries to usurp your power as queen of your house. Besides (and I'm speaking as someone who's heard of Facebook but doesn't know what it does), if all you want to do is share pictures of what you eat, you can do that here.
Plus, as long as the masses flock to another forum and attract hackers, you're comparatively safe here.
Well, I'm not going entirely. I'm pretty sure I'll still check in here, at least for a while. I'm just not seeing a whole lot of point, you know? Especially because the people who actually want to talk to me, I can and do talk to via e-mail.
DeleteAlso, I have zero desire to share pictures of what I eat. :)