At least, it is for regular people. If it wasn’t, I wouldn’t have felt the need to create another blog where I could 100% be myself. I went back through my Xanga the other day and I genuinely miss that writing. I miss being able to talk like I’d talk to one of my best friends. So I decided to take all reasons why a new blog was a bad idea and totally ignore them. Blog = created.
We’ve created two worlds, now – I hope you all realize that. Before all these social networks crept into our lives, we already had two lives – our work/class lives and our personal lives. Social media has now taken the professional version of ourselves, usually kept in an 8-hour cage, and stretched it out to encompass almost the entire rest of our days. We’re hiding our Myspace accounts. We’re changing our last names on Facebook. And if you’re like me, your own personal blog isn’t even yours – it’s a place for people to come and read thoughts from the “professional” you. Ugh. We do all of this just so we can keep what little of our lives we have left. It sucks.
Personally, I’d love to be done with the nonsense, but too many “brilliant” people think that they can judge someone’s morality and work ethic by looking at some drunk camera phone pictures taken on the weekend. The irony is that we’re all probably doing the same things – so why does anyone get the right to judge?
I wish I could just throw a link out there and say, “Here’s where you can find me writing uncut and without reservation,” but it would be tied to me through this site and, well – you know why I can’t do that. I think we shouldn’t have to fear the reprocussions of what we say, but free speech is only free if everyone else is playing along. Right now, they aren’t. Until they are, we’ll all continue to hide who we really are online. Transparency is a joke and will continue to be a joke until we all stand up to this crap.
