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It is for being able to quickly get some thoughts out. It’s just a random “cyber-box” where I can throw whatever random thoughts I have and then forget them. Like right now I am thinking about what to say to my professor, Doc Shu, who I never finished papers for. So if I want I can jot stuff down. This isn’t for anyone else. This isn’t serious journaling. This is just a place for lazy-arse blubbering. I think it’s healthy, or therapeutic, or something.
So I am not expecting or hoping anyone will read this (well, not much anyway), I am just wanting to barf out whatever nonsense is giving me anxiety so that it’s not just occupying headspace. So yeah, this isn’t my work; I’m not a writer. It’s just a place for my thoughts to tumble out from my brain into this little box. I think that is a very healthy thing to do. (And perhaps anonymity makes me more comfortable with that.)
I like photography. I had a photo blog for a month or so. Maybe less. The truth is that the whole thing is a process. It is the process of getting the photo from camera to computer that ended up bogging me down. Okay it wasn’t just that, it was all kinds of stuff. Like, why am I taking this photo? What does it prove? Haven’t I seen this? Does anyone else need to see this? What am I trying to accomplish here?
Some might answer, “It’s just a hobby, geez, you just do it for fun.” But then I don’t interact with things in the same way. Surfing sounds fun - you just do it. Photography is a little different. It’s so external.
What does interest me a bit more right now is things like collages. Just sort of exploring random strings which spiral all over through images and text and stuff. That seems a little more interesting to me. So who knows. I really doubt I’ll get too into photography. And I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. Life is good whether I take photos of the beauty around me or not.
More questions to ask: is it important to help people see the beauty of things around us? That’s really the one thing I am able to do is see things that no one else does. So who knows.. I might find that I really desire to show that through photography or cinematography someday.
So while I’m on the topic of distractions, here are a few websites I really like, or might visit, but probably don’t need. I’m not even going to list all the websites, I’m just going to list the categories with an example. News (Digg, Reddit), Online Bookmarking (Del.ici.ous), status (twitter.com), video posting (youtube), photo posting (flickr), long websites listing all the great things i like (librarything or a million others).
On the other hand there are a few really useful ones, like yelp.com, pandora and playlist.com for discovering and sharing music, and I couldn’t post “Blog Sites” since I’m using this and use blogger. I had a photo blog at shutterchance.com, but in the end didn’t use it too much.
I like keeping in touch. Really I do. So what does my title mean?
There are lots of websites like twitter and facebook which are all related to social networking, telling everyone around you what you’re doing or something like that. And for some reason, I don’t really care. I don’t care whether people really know what I’m up to. I’m usually not too worried what others are up to. I think minding our own business is a fantastic thing to do. Worrying about everyone else just seems like a fantastic waste of time. I don’t mean not caring about people. I care about people, and I’m interested in them. I just don’t feel a need to know what they are doing at all times. Despite what twitter.com claims, it really doesn’t leave me feeling more connected. It’s never a replacement for being with someone or doing something with someone.
And.. it’s all a huge distraction. Do we really need MORE distraction? Something tells me we need more focus. I sure as heck do.
This book is becoming a catalyst for some really positive change in my life! It seems to be working!
Today I am experimenting with social networking sites, including this, friendfeed, and twitter, and we’ll see what sticks. Spaghetti on the wall and all.
