word on the street...
is that people have actually been reading this thing. this excites me and concerns me. it excites me that people are actually interested enough in me and what i happen to be writing to check it. i suppose on some level it's always a good (but often selfish) feeling to have people focusing on you.
this of course means, however, that my fears i posted about before are coming true. people (myself included) are spending more time on their computers and there's all of the troubles that go along with that. this probably isn't a problem for those of you who are normal, but i have these ridiculous patterns in my "internet life." there are certain sites that i visit pretty much every time i go to my computer. if i actually sit down to a computer it is pretty much a garuntee that i'm at least going to my gmail and losetouch. that was true as of a week ago. now that i have this blog i've been consistently going to those two sites i already mentioned as well as a bunch of the blogs i have linked on this site, as well as some others, and i've found that i'm spending even more time checking losetouch, too. in other words, i'm noticing that the internet is becoming more of a time-consuming part of my life.
but alas, if i want to stay in touch with my friends, what else is there to do? we don't live in an ideal world, do we?
another strange thing about a blog is that, to some extent, it allows you the luxury of having other people read your writing without you necessarily saying anything excellently or having anything excellent to say. before the blog revolution, if you wanted people to pay attention to your writings, you either had to write a letter to specific people or you actually had to get published, which would require quite a bit of skill on your part. sorry folks. you're not gettin' any of that here.
this of course means, however, that my fears i posted about before are coming true. people (myself included) are spending more time on their computers and there's all of the troubles that go along with that. this probably isn't a problem for those of you who are normal, but i have these ridiculous patterns in my "internet life." there are certain sites that i visit pretty much every time i go to my computer. if i actually sit down to a computer it is pretty much a garuntee that i'm at least going to my gmail and losetouch. that was true as of a week ago. now that i have this blog i've been consistently going to those two sites i already mentioned as well as a bunch of the blogs i have linked on this site, as well as some others, and i've found that i'm spending even more time checking losetouch, too. in other words, i'm noticing that the internet is becoming more of a time-consuming part of my life.
but alas, if i want to stay in touch with my friends, what else is there to do? we don't live in an ideal world, do we?
another strange thing about a blog is that, to some extent, it allows you the luxury of having other people read your writing without you necessarily saying anything excellently or having anything excellent to say. before the blog revolution, if you wanted people to pay attention to your writings, you either had to write a letter to specific people or you actually had to get published, which would require quite a bit of skill on your part. sorry folks. you're not gettin' any of that here.
