So lately I've been thinking about deleting my facebook and sticking primarily to Twitter, and blogging. That being said I haven't been blogging very much, and my twitter feed has been sort of boring lately. Plus I don't know if I could bring myself to delete my account.
It's not that I'm addicted to Facebook, I've actually come to a point where I don't even check it that often anymore, and it's beginning to wear on me. The main reason I don't want to delete it is for fear of being left out of the loop. Isn't that what keeps mostly everyone from deactivating their accounts? How will people be in contact with you? How will you know what people are up to?
You could fall back on the cell phone. Lets face it, landlines are becoming a thing of the past, so cell phones are the case makers in my hypothetical situation. Call someone, text them if you need to get a hold of them. Facebook does make it easy to plan a gathering of a group of people. And yes, there are some people who are easier to contact through facebook rather than texting or calling anyway.
As a cultural student I don't think I'll be deleting any of my social media profiles. I barely use Google+ but we'll wait and see if it takes off when the beta testing is done.
Now. That being said I've come to another problem. I am easily distracted on the internet. If you can get through the very dry first two chapters I highly recommend reading Nicholas Carr's The Shallows. It has some very interesting information about concentration and the effects the internet has on our own. The internet has been used to distract us from what we're otherwise doing. Small doses of internet are fine it seems, but trying to read on a screen, and read on a page are completely different mind functions. the way we go about each varies.
My point is that during the first section of this post I meant to say a lot more than I did. I wrote a bit, checked Twitter, wrote a bit more, and went back and forth until I forgot what I was going to write next. Since I've finished my first thought on social media, and closed the tabs I was using for those site I've written more precisely what I wanted to say with much greater accuracy and speed, without loosing my train of thought.
My last thought is that of school. I've probably already explained most of this, but it's on my mind and it's my freakin' LJ so whatevs! I've decided on a cultural studies major. For now at least. With a concentration in religious studies, and a double minor of writing and physics. My goal is to be a teacher. More accurately a Professor, but we'll see how it goes over the next few years of school. I want to buckle down and plow through school work like mad, and try to take as many summer courses as I can so I can get ahead of myself in grades. If I can graduate sooner than 4 years of school, I want to try to do it.
And with that I'm done for now. I'll try to update more often, since I am still a fan of Livejournal and those who still update.
Either way, later.
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