Ending Early

    Hi! I started a new blog because I like to write, and it feels therapeutic to talk about the world in this way. It's nice to have my thoughts spew out somewhere, or they are left circling my brain like hungry birds. I was recently tipped off to this post by a friend. It touches on a lot of things I have been thinking about recently. I have heard Ed on podcasts in the past, and it was refreshing to sit back and nod my head going "mmm hmm" at every complaint about the world wide web that I agreed with. It is becoming clunkier, and more difficult to navigate. 

    Back in the early days of social media, mutual friends would always complain when there was a new change to the website, only to get used to it after a couple of days like nothing happened. This may have most likely been a positive change for the corporation, swaying the user to focus on ad pages or something else to boost the profit of Facebook or another site. I like social media. I was a very shy person and I think it was a good place to connect. Now it is overflowing with ads, bots, and all sorts of random slop I don't care for. I still like to know what friends are up to, but I think the frustration is mounting and people are posting less because of this. The overflow might eventually be bots just talking with one another and sharing misinformation until the internet caves in on itself. AI images being passed back and forth and being manipulated until the file is too giant and confusing to comprehend, and everything shuts down. 

    This blog is nice because I can type "blah blah blah" into my white text box and I don't have a friend request from "Faithcross_20287" on Bluesky. I will share this but there are no distractions. No hearts or likes or anything like that. Twitter became a place where I ended up only receiving spam and bot requests, the posts were getting weirder and the ads were all scams. It may become the new 8chan at this point, but who cares? It's easy to pivot. I guess I just think of everything on the internet now as frustrating, just like the link above. 

    I saw a link for a news article today, but the article waws from a Baltimore news organization. It said I couldn't read unless I subscribed. I don't think I will want to read another article from them for a while. It's like that everywhere. I don't want to subscribe to everything. I don't want emails from every place I buy from, and I don't want to have to do constant updates until my computer is too old to update to the latest OS. It's wild that we deal with this but it's all by design. Some days you want to just go hang out in the forest, but I will probably need my phone to take pics of a cool tree.