To coincide with the recent revelation in the blog section (or not recent if you are reading this at some point in the unknown future - the blog link is here)
it made perfect sense to follow through with a new rant, and what better a subject than the revelation itself... Facebook
The idea behind it is beautiful, it’s an easy way to update the world with what you are doing/feeling/thinking share pictures, content you have found on the web. The thing is, that I used to do all of these things, here on this very website.
So why did I get drawn to Facebook? Probably due to the fact it seemed easier to update (I say "seemed" because it got buggier and buggier and more problematic the longer I used it) and that is possibly the true point of this rant.
Yes there is a drive in life to do things in a simpler way, but at what cost? The cost of me using something other than this site was the irritation and feeling of failure for ditching a project before it was a year old (is that what I have done to facebook...) a cost of the content I would update, limitations on how much I could say. THIS IS BAD, yes we should make life easier but not at a high cost. Let me elaborate more.
Computers - great things, great software, reduced times to do things by ridiculous factors. But a cost... a generation that can no longer write, can't spell or punctuate as they rely on auto correction tools. For some, even the complete and utter destruction of social skills.
Mobile phones - the ability to communicate from almost anywhere, and communicate in every form except touch and smell (and maybe some others I haven’t thought about yet) yet this is also a downfall, they are a convenience at the price of constant interruption of your life (see earlier blog)
So, this may not have been the best of rants but I am out of practice. But a lesson has been learnt, yes I should make things in my life easier but only if that is not at a huge sacrifice. And this leads on to the potential development of the site, how to make things easier to maintain? Rants for example could be controlled by being a blog themselves... and soon... they will be!
it made perfect sense to follow through with a new rant, and what better a subject than the revelation itself... Facebook
The idea behind it is beautiful, it’s an easy way to update the world with what you are doing/feeling/thinking share pictures, content you have found on the web. The thing is, that I used to do all of these things, here on this very website.
So why did I get drawn to Facebook? Probably due to the fact it seemed easier to update (I say "seemed" because it got buggier and buggier and more problematic the longer I used it) and that is possibly the true point of this rant.
Yes there is a drive in life to do things in a simpler way, but at what cost? The cost of me using something other than this site was the irritation and feeling of failure for ditching a project before it was a year old (is that what I have done to facebook...) a cost of the content I would update, limitations on how much I could say. THIS IS BAD, yes we should make life easier but not at a high cost. Let me elaborate more.
Computers - great things, great software, reduced times to do things by ridiculous factors. But a cost... a generation that can no longer write, can't spell or punctuate as they rely on auto correction tools. For some, even the complete and utter destruction of social skills.
Mobile phones - the ability to communicate from almost anywhere, and communicate in every form except touch and smell (and maybe some others I haven’t thought about yet) yet this is also a downfall, they are a convenience at the price of constant interruption of your life (see earlier blog)
So, this may not have been the best of rants but I am out of practice. But a lesson has been learnt, yes I should make things in my life easier but only if that is not at a huge sacrifice. And this leads on to the potential development of the site, how to make things easier to maintain? Rants for example could be controlled by being a blog themselves... and soon... they will be!
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