This Facebook Sabbatical made me go back to my neglected online activities like blogging, twitting (or is it twitter-ing?), and so on. The reason behind the FB boycott is a long story.
My online life was never the same after college. Maybe because I did not have much of a social life, just always waiting for the next birthday so that I can find a reason to get drunk.
Like I was browsing through Pinoy Exchange, and I was thinking, they are annoying. I never considered myself (maybe a little) a good debater but recent arguments on my former favorite threads are insipid and lame. Where have all the great PExers gone? Maybe I outgrew it and heard most of the arguments.I was grossed out.
I think I will be lurking in Mukamo, that seems to remain unexploited.
The problem with the Internet these days is that it so darn accessible that anybody can use it. The ones that are annoying (maybe like myself) are loitering around like a cancer making everything in their path as gangrenous as they are.
I guess I really have mellowed down, and I hardly blog as much as I used to… boring. I think my blog is pretty much like that too… boring! I feel uninspired by life and all that’s left is this jaded man with nothing to do but complain (like what I am doing now).
Kontento na ako sa mga blog na binabasa ko ngayon or online magazines.
There’s this irregular blogger who commented here one time, and as I looked at his profile. All his registered blogs are nonsense. I don’t mean nonsense-bad grammar but nonsense-incoherent that is irritating and please-torture-me content similar to Barney the Purple Dinosaur minus the sensibility. Either he is a foreigner in a non-speaking English country or a four-year old with easy access to a computer.
Every time I open Friendster, I am aghast by what I see. Just recently I open it up and with Friendster’s new homepage that seems a lot like FB now, I see disgusting people who unfortunately are people I know. People who I am not friends with but people I knew. Now because of the disgusting pictures they have in their underwear…. DELETE! People who add people in their underwear… DELETE! So it normally becomes me logging in to delete people that are gross. What is it about people posing in their underwear? and how did I ever get to know exhibitionists with poor taste in photography? and I remember that I am bad at declining people I meet who wants to be friendsters with me. I really don’t think they posed in their underwear when I added them up, they were actually fairly decent then.
Now that I am back at FB, I logged in after much drama. I also got tired of relentlessly checking updates from people, save for a few.
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By the way, not that it is of any interest, I bought TH White’s The Once and Future King. I also downloaded some ebooks. I want to read books again. Lately, I feel stupid. That’s one of my goals. I think I will not call it a New Year’s Resolution. Resolutions provide ridiculous pressure that makes it fun to break like being healthy.. that’s a resolution that I have, that apparently, I am not following but I really want. I think I broke the resolution in less than a day. I think I forgot I had a resolution.