ok I totally forgot where I heard this but I recently read something that went "my computer is a home that all my friends are allowed to come into" Oh wait, I totally do know! It was from this. An entry in the latest edition of the HTML Review (see link page). I've actually yet to read the whole entry because it requires opening up a tor browser and I don't have that installed on my computer. I'm a massive poser, I know lol.I do think that the HTML Review is like the coolest thing ever and I'd love to contribute one day.
I guess I'm talking about social media again. What I wanted to bring up was this tendancy toward what I might call meta-communication? I did this a lot witht the first few blog posts and I still do it now! I find it really annoying, honestly. It's like I don't have anything else to say except that I want to say something. I forget if I mentioned that I'm back on instagram and I'm more or less using it the same way I always have (as a sad lurker),and I've been noticing some addicitve tendancies popping up again. I did experiment with posting on my close friend's story in a more candid way, but even in that context there's this impulse explain and justify the act of posting in the actual post. But I don't want to do that, because I can't imagine anyone finding that especially interesting. So I just don't say anything.
It's a weird paradigm, but I do like the idea of "a home that your friends can visit" I think it's really easy to think like your a television personality or a politician or something and get hung up on what your "audience" wants or expects to see from you. I do get hung up on the idea of "what am I doing this for?" And maybe I don't fully know the answer to that question?? lol this will be soo cool when I do.
IN OTHER NEWS: I still really need to add more design elements to this site to make it cooler. I also need desperatly to add a page for comments and buttons so I can rep some of the other awesome websites here on neocites. Thanks so much for checking my stuff out! it really makes me happy to see people looking at it despite me having my shit very clearly not together. tysm!!!
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