So, it would seem I have gotten lazy on this old blog here. It amazes me that I can login to Facebook and Twitter every day, express my opinions and thoughts in the space of a status update and completely ignore this place where I could simply ramble on to my hearts content. We have all gotten so lazy, us tweeters, status updaters, virtual-ers.
It is also amazing that, nowadays, while I'm searching for jobs and applying to different companies I can simply go on facebook or twitter and locate these people who are meant to be daunting. These sites have broken away the wall that used to stand between employers and the hopefuls. I can now often see (provided their privacy settings are at a minimum) their interests, their sense of humour, their family and friends. Is this the definition of stalker? Or is it a good thing that the fear of those in charge of whether or not you will have a future with them, has gone? Is it appropriate to approach them via these sites they have so willingly put their lives on? I don't know.
I'm pretty sure that nobody reads this blog, after all this is it's fourth post, I guess it takes more than that to build a following. I always find the things you think about and want to express can actually appear really quite dull to yourself. I often read things that I have written in the past and cringe. Maybe it's because the only time I feel inspired to write is when I have felt sad or alone and that, actually, I don't want to relive those times. Writing helps release but looking back on it can reawaken the feelings. I think it is healthy to leave these sorts of things behind but I suppose reminding yourself spurs you not to go through it again. This way we build up experiences and continue on to the next crater we will inevitably not see and fall head first.
My point, however, is that while we are our own greatest critic, others see it differently. So many people whinge about Big Brother, 'Why would you want to watch a load of people in a house?' I don't think I even know the answer to that. I can see why people avoid it. It takes up so much of your time and why waste time with other people's lives when you have your own to take care of? But the simple fact is that we do like watching others, we do like knowing what other people think. We are surrounded by people's thoughts it's just that we only see the ones who have gotten into the public eye. Everybody else writes in their diaries, until the blog was invented that is and who truthfully doesn't want to see what's in a person's diary??
