Wednesday, September 1, 2010
8:58 PM
14th day without facebook
1st night without twitteras for now, i really
regret. but later, i would find it
sillylets see, how did the
process go ?
i guess at the start, i started blogging cos i wanted to share the day, the activities and events in
my perspective. that was in sec 1 ?
then after that, it became more for people to
understand me. cos i think there is someone else under this face.
later in sec 2 ah... that one dont want say le. when sec 2 ended, i got introduced to facebook. at that time, without much friends, its just a gaming webby
when the
socialising era started, i added more and more friends and my counter hit 500 friends.
wooh, how many of them do i really know man.
why facebook have the upper hand?
cos its much more popular and much faster. summarise the whole day in a status.
how cool can that be? but
ppl like it short, compact and funny.
so from paragraphs of words, they reduced it to max of 400 words per status.
how many ppl are willing to read blogs anw? unless its your good buddy or your crush's blog luhs.
so if
you have to pick the one most interesting fact and post it as a sentence.to let ppl read.
after some time, it becomes more and more like a popularity contest.
in my eyes at least. though i didnt like it. but its really nice for ppl to like your status
cos it means
hey! i agree with you pal.
thats why i changed, to post only funny and likable stuff. hahaha...
it then occured to me, all this aint getting me anywhere. it becomes
hypocriticalyour status, isnt really your status ...if you know what i mean.
the other downside of facebook being so popular is once you post something
a hundred over ppl reads it.
talkative ppl like me wont be able to control the urge to post things.
so if, you post things, that will spoil your image, either by someone
misunderstanding your post or maybe it's just a tiny little thought in your mind, but in other ppl's eyes, its
magnified, generalised and stereo-typed.
so you got to be really careful abt random thoughts.
while these are just some leading factors, the primary one that got me going is
facebook was taking
tooo much time. sometimes, its boring but i still dont leave the facebook homepage for fear some thing trendy might just pop up and i will miss it.
thus, i migrated off to twitter. where its more like
a big msn conversation where ppl say random things and you dont really have to read all of them.
twitter feels good cos i felt like im in
a big family. talking to anyone, everyone and at anytime.
hais. whats goes around comes around. in the end, i am still back to blogger.
so its really not those webpages fault. i am the one with problems.
if you want to change others, you have to change yourselves first.no point changing from fb to twitter or to blogger. cos the main problem lies within me
so till then, i shall stay discreet. hopefully.