That's the trap you fall into when you decide to become a blogger: you start feeling an obligation to continue posting even if you do not feel inspired or you don't feel you have something important to say. But there it stands, on the top right side of the webpage, the request "new post" trying to make you write again. It reminds me of the familiar-to-all-of-us facebook question "what's on your mind?" proudly presenting itself every time I log in, trying to convince me that I need to share with my friends what is in my mind and that they will be intersted in reading it.(doubtedly though). And how come every time I read this question my immediate response-thought is "what do you care? It's none of your business".
At first it seems like a stable point of view but then the miming tendency gets to work. Being bombarded by everyone else's posts, thoughts, beliefs, comments, reports on where they are and what they do, you start feeling like an alien, thinking if everybody else does it, why not me? How many cases do we all know,including ourselves, of people creating facebook accounts, refusing to post photos and personal information at first, but, as time goes by, smoothly and naturally they just forget about it and feel like "sharing with the people around them"...so what? they say...everybody else does it and it's fun.
While this may be true for (some) people aged 25+, not the same can be said for teenagers and children at a very young age. They do not even face the dilemma of keeping some privacy because they do not even realise how far the term "public" goes...And let's face it, social network users are of some unconceivable age numbers like 8,9..With parents working all afternoon or parents being busy in front of a computer screen, it's a one way road, most travelled by, that is convenient for everyone. It keeps children busy, gives parents the freedom to be involved in what they do and time flies in a pleasant way for both sides. The more time children spend on the internet, the more they post, they publish comments, pictures, add personal information, interests, locations, dreams (dreams? that's a whole other story,probably in another post).
Even so, the outcome is the same. Children, teenagers, adults,elderly :-) keep posting their lives, our lives on the internet. Whether done with some second thoughts or done immediately does not matter in the long run and does not qualify as resisting the temptation. Nor is this a problem-solution conversation as it is not a problem for everyone and for those that it is, we can always turn off our PCs. I wonder why we don't do it and start living a little bit.
In any case, the last thing I would wish if I were a child, is all my childhood memories to be consisting of likes and pokes. On the same basis, would we like to get older and have conversations like " ..Remember when you posted that awesome photo on facebook and got 30 likes? ah...the good old times!" :-) Not so unlikely for a great number of people, especially younger! At least, let's hope they'll be doing it in person with a glass of wine and a bite to eat, not just cables and screens.
Anyway, just fullfilling the need to create a "new post", because I may have not mentioned it earlier, I belong to that generation aged 8+, trapped into the labyrinth of continually posting. Fortunately, it's still daytime and the sunlight shows the exit.
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