Existentialist rant #0
August 12th, 2008craptastic, existentialism, internet, rants
I was going to post a blog with funny pictures I took, but wordpress isn’t currently allowing me to upload images so I have no other choice but to post an entry about how I hate the internet.
Well, this isn’t actually original content. I stole this from my journal then wrote off the lines that didn’t make sense. Enjoy!
22 June 2008 @ 03:01 am
It’s late. It’s 3 am late. I think three a.m. is officially, like, the middle of the fucking night.I just got off skype with a friend of mine. We talked about a great deal of things, among which was our time spent on the internet. He mentioned feeling like he’d wasted an incredible amount of time online, and I can surely sympathize. Sometimes I wonder if there’s any point to being online at all; the internet is this weird little world that is separate from reality with no way of knowing how relevant it is.
I am completely naked right now because I just got out of the shower. Good thing I don’t have my webcam going! lol! “Lol” means “laugh out loud,” which I didn’t actually do just now. In fact, I didn’t even smile. The joke really wasn’t that funny.
The real question is what is important? What is important to do with your life? Obviously if the goal of living is to make friends on the internet then spending tons of time on the internet is crucial, but most people seem to have this idea that time on the internet is really just interstitial. You spend time online while you’re waiting to do other things that are important. Therefore, nothing you ever do is important because you spend all your time online. For the hyper-wired semi-masses, the internet takes over and the line between reality and nonreality becomes a little vague.
For the mind, there is no real distinction between high imagination and reality. It’s becoming more and more plausible for people to live an entire life through the internet. Who’s to say there’s anything wrong with that? Who’s to say it isn’t a complete waste of human life?
So I ask myself what I’m doing online and why. Why am I in the thick of social media and does that really mean anything? If I simply unplug myself from that world it will keep going on without me; I’ll be just a blip on the radar. But I suppose that is the way it is with all things.
Boy, this was a happy entry.
I guess it’s better than having my house catch on fire, though. Part of Watsonville was on fire yesterday, and I realized that if I had to evacuate I could leave everything and not miss any of it, which made me very happy.
End existentialist rant #0. And, if anyone can tell me why images aren’t working so I can get back to wasting time on the internet, that’s be swell.
from the very first time i got on the internet, i was hooked. i spent so much time defending myself against well-meaning friends who wanted me to “get off the computer” and go do something that was less fun, finally i came to the conclusion that i am not anti-social, they’re antitechnical.
since i’ve managed to earn a pretty decent living making websites, people don’t bug me about it anymore. haha i was right! again!
and now, with the amazing array of social media out there, i’m finding that i’m very, very happy with the friendships i’ve developed online. i don’t think you’d be “just a blip on the radar”, i’m sure there would be a lot of people that would miss you. i myself went through a rough patch for a good three, four years before putting myself back online, and many of my old friends from back then were *still* checking the places they figured i’d be, looking for me. i had all this “you’re back” and all. so you know, don’t discount the online friendships because they’re virtual. virtual has become pretty darn actual lately.
@dotlizard
Awe! thanks. I appreciate you saying I’m not a blip on the radar. Now That I think of it, I’m sure there’s at least 2-3 people who would miss me. Although, I will point out that you’re tech savvy. What about people who aren’t, like me?
the people who cared and kept looking after all those years weren’t after me to fix their websites, in fact, i was quite inconsistent where that was concerned, back then. i would have a lot of great plans but fail on the follow-through.
i’m much better now.
my point is, it’s not really about what you do for them, it’s that there really are people who really care, and as you network, you invariably accumulate this caring, providing you are the sort of person who connects. and you are.
so stick around, k? k.
*poke* *poke* Here’s your problem. Your upload scheme has been filled to the brim with FAIL. You’ll need to have a professional FAIL cleaning crew hired to take a look at it. Just be sure to feed them lots and lots of coffee.