As today's society tries to
summarize life in 200 or less characters, I find myself rejecting this notion.
Realizing that I can't summarize my life into such a small amount, I find there
are three major reasons why I'm using this blog more and more to post my innermost
thoughts instead of social networking sites. The first reason is social sites
are fads. The second one is I don't have to censor myself as much. Finally, I
have total freedom of expression here.
Yes, I see most social network
sites as a fad. They come and go. When one becomes too big, another one rises,
and everyone moves to the new one. An example of this is Myspace. I had one,
but once Facebook took off, I deleted Myspace and strictly went Facebook. I
know there's Google+, but I don't want to maintain two sites that do the same
thing, Plus, there's been days I've been tempted to delete Facebook because to
be honest, I get bored with it.
The second is here, I find myself
not censoring my thoughts as much on here as I do on social sites. This blog is
labeled as adult content for that reason. There are some topics I will avoid,
but anything I do post here, I'm not going to tone down in fear of offending
someone. If you don't like it, either comment or go somewhere else. A blog
isn't about being popular, but a way to express your deepest dreams and ideas
for the world to share.
The third one is total freedom of
expression. I don't have to worry about character restrictions, word counts,
etc, etc. If I wanted to, I could post my entire novel on here, and it would
post. I have a Twitter, but find it annoying for I can't find myself typing out
140 characters expression how I feel some days. Facebook at time had a 420-word
limit, but not any more (Tested it today with a six page, 15000 character post
which I did delete). Then again, when you post a long topic, it shrinks it down
with the continue reading link, and most people won't read it.
I will conclude this by saying that
I find myself posting random ideas and/or stories on here more and more with
each passing day for social sites are too restrictive, and won't be around
forever like some sites. Also, I enjoy the fact that if you're reading this,
I'm not doing for some type of popularity contests. I'm posting this for I
enjoyed writing it no matter how random it seems. If you're reading this and
hate it, move on for there's no unfriending here. Some times, it's better to
think differently, and find better outlets to express yourself then worrying
about what your social sites think about it. Not everything you do in life is popular,
but all that matters is you feel like it was the right choice, and made you happy.
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