12/03/2014

It's a funny thing.  I cannot treat this space like Twitter or Facebook.  I have too much history here and too much respect for the old blog.  I also have way too much hate for social media.  Twitter in particular.  Facebook killed blogging.  Twitter brought it to a Jerry Springer level.  What dumb shit can we tweet out to everyone/anyone in 140 characters?  No need to be able to read, write or express ourselves with even a hint of education or intelligence.  Twitter's defenders no doubt would champion it's "social-media-grass-roots-protest-this-that-or-the-other-thing" bullshit.  But at the end of the day what have they produced?  Hashtags, retweets, followers and....what? 

I would suggest this.  Try writing.  Try writing more than one hundred and forty characters and try writing more than your average Facebook "friend" will bother to read without some dumb meme about cats or cancer.  And three,  five,  seven years from now read what you written.   Does it make you feel something or does it put a giant question mark over your head?

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