I haven't written one of these for a while so I'm taking this late Saturday night opportunity to do so.
My life is fine. The same ole same ole. Uni. Home. Nothing is different. It's good, it's fine, it's the same.
I have given up Facebook and whilst this is probably a temporary move, I have not missed it the majority of the time I've gone without it. I will probably start using it again in a couple of months, but on a far less frequent basis than ever before, and only to arrange to meet friends, for example.
This move has made my irritation with people online greater than ever before. This obviously mainly stems from twitter where it is easy access to strangers. I don't follow as many people I don't know (bar famous people) as I used to. Maybe 3? People on that site scare me. I tweet a lot, but this is mainly at night when I'm indoors after a day of doing things and being active. If I tweet during the day, it's usually from my phone when I'm out living life, even if it is just in lectures. There are, however people who tweet constantly, all day, every day. It scares me. I don't understand it. Why don't people go for walks and enjoy the weather, even if it's raining? Why don't people embrace such things that will be taken from us sooner, rather than later? It's beyond me. Even just walking around campus is something I enjoy. The different people, with different backgrounds. The trees, the wildlife.
It scares me that they seem to get so attached to people, strangers that they meet on such sites. People I have met on twitter are mostly very nice, but I have real-life friends & those are the people that matter the most to me and I just can't quite comprehend a life where I make all of my friends on a website. They more often than not live far away and I find it hard to believe you can ever truly know somebody you meet from behind a screen? They aren't friends. They are nice strangers who put up a photo with a cheesy smile which they probably remove from their faces as soon as the flash from their camera taking such a photo has gone. It's bewildering. Alas, each to their own. I just pray for these people and hope they realise that real life is a beautiful thing that you need to experience first hand. I'm even talking about interactions with people face to face. I think Uni has taught me that meeting new people in person is an incredible thing.
I say this every year so I will be brief this time. Valentines day is a pointless way for large corporations to take their greed and abuse a seemingly naive public. It is a way for manufacturors (sp?) to make money in between Christmas and Easter and disgusts me. If anybody needs a specified holiday to show and tell somebody that they 'love' them instead of doing it all year round then I can't help but feel that maybe such feelings of 'love' have been misunderstood by said people. Either that or they're a dumbass. This is the jist. I'm sure you get it. (I wonder how many people will suggest I'm bitter about being single? Probably one of the people celebrating valentines day...)
I needed to get these things off my mind and typing them out so I can read them helps. Sorry this has been a boring/moany one.
D.W.B
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