What’s the point? (About online social networking and blogging)
I wanted to write a more personal post, but for one, hardly anybody visits this site so i don’t see the point anyway and for two, i find online social networking sites and this blogging thing increasingly impersonal. There is a subtle difference between one and two above because the second reason is something which i hadn’t realised before.
At various points of time, i have been actively involved with Orkut(first biggish social site and showed me just how addictive all of this could be), then FB (which’s just the Caucasian cousin of Orkut and so more popular and respected) and now twitter(very impersonal, you just talk about celebrities and pretend to be in a newsroom, or try act cool or funny). Blog was one place where i could write a lot of things without giving a fuck about so many people seeing and reacting to it, like facebook. Now this is an innate human psyche i think, to not want to get judged all the time. I don’t like people who judge you all the time, giving their ‘Likes’ as a token of appreciation.
Twitter is a different world altogether. I don’t know about others but i liked to keep my new twitter handle safe from real life friends, lest it should become another FB. I could talk to so many strangers and cry or laugh at stupidest of things. Of course they’d judge me too and give an RT for appreciation but it didn’t matter to me cus they’d be judging just a bot on their computer screen, and not me in flesh and bone. But then this specific reason became the undoing of all that i thought was good about twitter. After a point, it became too impersonal and that most of the others were just pretending to be cool to get popular(may be they were cool, i never knew) didn’t help.
The blog is like a movie’s background music which is unceasing, unlike the songs which are loud and fun but don’t last long(read FB and twitter). But this sudden aversion to writing personal blog posts stems from my view of ‘what’s the point’ . I concede that i’m asking ‘whats the point’ too frequently these days, but then futileness is an ideology and like all ideologies it won’t go if i tell it to.
But then why am i writing this post too? What’s the point?
In fact, what’s the point of anything in life?
