George

Yeah, so I haven’t been blogging much

I’ve been noticing that some of us old bloggers’ time has been consumed by work and (of all things) other social networks. Interesting to see bloggers invest their time on building real-estate to which they have no benefit or any form of ownership but yet, there they go. As for myself? Guilty as charged.

To be honest, I don’t see this social craze going on for too long.

Sure, there will always be networks — just think about the old school BBS (or Bulletin Boards) and even now, the old forums haven’t been fazed-out. They are simply methods of communication…and that’s all we want. To be heard and communicate.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because of some recent complaint on G+ by a user that uploaded a profile pic of him throwing the middle finger. Long story short, Tom Anderson responded to it and anyone that was noticing left comments regarding said actions. I pinged in and posted a comment that stated, in short, that on any private network, there’s a difference between “rights” and “privileges”.  (Oh, and the dramatic conclusion.)

Getting back to my point about blogging. There’s a big difference between blogging and posting content on a social network. For one, on your blog, you can post ANYTHING! On any social network, your posts’ content is governed by the rule of said network’s law and by the vox populi.  Case in point for the vox populi: Kelly Clarkson’s view on Ron Paul and the Twitter backlash.

I don’t say “it” on social networking site because each site has it’s own group of thought and so the things I say on FB don’t translate well into G+ or any tweet for that matter. However, on blogs, it’s different. Everything fits here. From a pointless “Hello world” post to “I need to get something off my chest” full-on post. It’s OK to post what I want to here. It’s my home!

As for our desire to share, to be seen and heard, to feel that we are secretly wanted by others en masse will pass as our society continues to grow with these tools of mass communication at our disposal.  Not all people will want to be famous and I’m one of those few.

Yes, I am a musician, however, I’m not a musician to be famous but to I perform for people who want to hear what I play and the same with blogging – I write for a few people that want to read.  In summary, 3-rd party censorship is there, it’s going to happen but as for my blog… no, thank-you, I’m better saving the pigeon hole for the pigeons.