When I was at the height of my online journal posting phase I’d make mental notes about things to write about throughout the day. As the day progressed, I’d slowly fashion and expand upon those topics at the back of my mind to try to make an insightful and clever entry. Most of the time it all came out as crap, but that’s not the point. Everything’s a one-liner these days and I really want to blame Twitter and Facebook for the difficulty I have generating posts now. It may just be that my urge and ability to write has degraded over time, but I’d rather blame what social networking has turned us into.
I had a hard enough time doing marathon essays in college. Now I can just barely get past a paragraph. Links and acronyms and single-sentence updates.
The other pickle is, how do you bring traffic to your site when everything can be fed and widgeted onto an all-encompassing page that is not yours? I don’t even visit my usual sites directly now that there’s Google Reader. I’m inclined to install a plug-in that’ll update Facebook with an entry note sort of thing and create a mirror on livejournal since there are still a number of cool kids using that, but then where does traffic come from? Which also begs the question: Why do I care about traffic in the first place?
Mysteries!
Oh, I’m definitely going to make a bot for a certain game I’ve been playing with the fairies and the furries tonight.