Still a web 1.0 kinda guy
This Kos diary, “No, actually, I don’t “need to get on Facebook” hit home for me today, and the guy more or less expressed what I think. I’ve never really been a fan of social networking sites. Although I can acknowledge the importance of having a MySpace site if you’re a musician, I don’t really seem to have much of a use for much of the so-called “Web 2.0″ stuff. I guess I can see how some people dig it, but Twitter, for example, seems completely useless to me. I don’t care what you’re doing, and I don’t expect you to care that I’m at some coffee house or I’m letting my dog outside now, and if you do, then you probably have too much time on your hands. Go pick up a book.
Same with Facebook. I’m on Facebook, and so far, all it seems to get me are a lot of emails that I don’t even bother to read. Heck, if I didn’t get ‘em, I probably wouldn’t even remember I was even on Facebook. Maybe social networking sites are only good for people who are, you know, social. I’m not interested in being reacquainted with ex-girlfriends, or other old friends, because if they were that important to me, I’d still be in touch with them. Most of the people I knew in high school were assholes, anyway.
See, perhaps it’s my hermit-like nature, but I don’t feel the need to continuously be in touch with people, as so many people do today. The cell phone me and Jenni use is only used for road trips and stuff. I don’t even think I’ve given anyone the number. One needs to be in control of their own mental landscape, and when they’re walking around with a big thing in their ear all day, they’re (willingly, I guess) leaving that control to the whimsy of others. Not my thing.
