Bless me father it has been
Facebook killed my blog and well, parts of me...
I have been moving back and forth on this scale this week...and...
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Is Facebook the new old AOL?
Is it the new net for newbies to the www...? Or for old comers now only texting and super-foning? (just invented new word...better trademark it like Colbert does).
Is BLOGGING DEAD? Or DEADER
At least blogging by the normal man on the street/girl in the shower? (NOT the super blogs who are actually making money, honey.)
Certainly to me, esmelling has gone the way of the telegraph...Are you one of the last one hundred people per county to actually read through and respond to esmell? I am. But then I still use a MARBLE MOUSE on a MOUSE PAD with my plain old LAPTOP (sorry 'bout the CAPS; no I'm not.)
Does Facebook Kill Blogs?
I did a blog starting back when Al Gore ran the internet, called, FRESHCHAOS.com. I worked hard on it more than daily for ten years. I recall one of my students said to me, "Mr. Hartzer that thing is really important to yoou, isn't it." Yes. It was. It never made any money. Actually many were afraid the name might show up on their 'histories' back when folks were ok to surf the web at work...
Maybe it was the time to do so anyway, but, when BLOGGER went all out 'easy' and automatic, and more importantly DROPPED ftp loads, I ended Freshchaos.com. Truly, it was time...it looked like Cheney might vanish and that Big O in the Oval O was going to save the world. The chaos wasn't going away with Obama...Fact is the fresh chaos was a thicker than oil in the ocean...So much chaos, so little time [Trademark that one, Stephen; I never did.]. May 2010, one blog became immortalized on the Googley while another one gave bloody birth...maybe like my own bloody birth, prematurely.
To fill the OMG I AM SO BLOG-LESS void, Facebook became a fun diversion. Being BLOGLESS it runs out was for me a bit of being GODLESS like that great song by the Dandy Warhols or the woman I can picture naked but can't recall her name, the author of GODLESS...[thank you GOD, for helping to delete her name from my memory banks...
What's her Name?
What's her Name?
What's her Name?
What's her Name?
It was just me not a dot com. I became addicted to friend gathering before they began posting warnings to friend fishers worse than what is showing on LIMEWIRE.com in this last weekof its existence. I never by the way have ever downloaded free music for the record, vinyl or no. Nor have I ever...never mind.
I with all seven of the stages of grief let go of my blog and began this one...now the point of all this...I just don't FEEL like blogging anymore or as much or....Maybe lost my blog voice with this new one...Maybe my creative blood is turning bluer over at Facebook...
Has FACEBOOK KILLED MY NEED TO BLOG...Maybe.
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