i just did a count and realised i'm hooked up to over 20 online platforms (think: youtube, flickr, blogger, myspace, twitter, tumblr, et al, et al, et al, et al, 4eva n everrr), and i'm totally lost.
like, what do i want my onlineness to reprazent?
i just logged onto my hotmail for the first time in like 6 years and it still exists, but all the data is gone! really weird spooky. tried to delete it but i have noooo idea what my password is, so i can't.
n e way. i'm asking the big questions. what kind of time and NRG to i want to put into being online? should i 'be' on facebook or not? do i really want to tumbl? should i reactivate my flickr pro, when i'm not sure i still identify with the imgs that are on there.
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Online time that has irl returns (like human contact or useful information/knowledge or anything that keeps me from being online) is well spent. maybe?
Basically its just suckin resources (electricity, computers/components done with , huge server farms in warehouses for our party pix, one google search=warming 1 cuppa coffee, a new laptop = ?? TONS of carbon emissions, toxic waste dumps of western tech in africa etcetc.......... also my back & but hurts from sittin) so unless its "important" maybe the oter parts of the internet should just be deleted or nuked with an emp bommm
I think internet (or any social networks like they like to call em) could be an extension of yourself, like being who you are but with technical attributes and also a huge space for knowledge and sharing stuff
by the way, it's like a "free" gallery where you can show/share with everyone what you've done
but i also feel something crazy about internet which is ; if you dont exist on the net it could mean that you dont exist in the physical world... that is crézé
like, where the fuck are the things that are not referenced on google ? are they existed for real ?
onliness is craziness (but maybe in a good way)
personally i find it disturbing that people use it- not as an extension, but as a replicant or replacement for who they are. they create who they want to be on the internet and THAT becomes their outward persona, then in actual real life shit gets complicated, people can't relate, people can't choose, people can't be.
it's so sad how fragmented social networking sites have made our communities! whats up with that?? don't people still like text message invites? fliers?? it seems the more internet presence = the more exciting (when discussing events), and maybe this can be transferred to people to, or how the general populus feels.
if you are not on the internet you're probably out discovering you is REAL in the REAL WORLD. i.e- i kind of feel like when i disconnected from FB i also managed to disconnect from a whole lot of people in my life who, now i know, didn't actually give a fuck about my life in the first place.
rant etc etc.
anyway, lydia lunch said you gotta be concious of things stealing your time because time is precious, it's life, capitalism, the system etc dont want to encourage creativity and free thinking, intelligence etc so there are all these gadgets and gizmos to steal your time but don't play into it.
having said all this i totally piss fart on the net a lot.
I USED TO MAKE THINGS!!??
Join fb and be my friend. idk i think the internet-and its related tech have good and bad qualities like anything else. i do feel like it can b an incredible waste of time buttt its kinda a great leveler for people who otherwise wouldnt b able to learn things see things find community becuz of the lack of availability where they live
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