It's not a phase, Mom!

[butterflydreaming]

I wonder if the feeling of having to report in with some kind of life progress or important emotional Thing is part of what killed the popularity of blogging. I mean, it's hard not to wonder how all that self expression went from what it was, in the early '00s, to after the bubble deflated. I'm not looking for a rehash of all the "why"s. It is what it is, anyway.

(But I grieve a little.)

I think the new Like feature for text messages, on iPhones, is not going to help us in using our words.

Can you imagine having had a smartphone in 2003? Being able to read your Friends Page anytime?

But... I'm glad there was no online me in high school, or junior high. Grade school might have been OK. But HS -- yikes.

Then again, what if I had been a disaster sooner?

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[igenlode]

An interesting thought -- I hadn't considered Facebook updates or tweets as a form of blogging or as a blogging substitute, but I suppose one could. (I tend to put my picture-related stuff on Facebook and my word-related stuff on Dreamwidth.)

And speaking as someone who was online in 1993, never mind 2003, I can remember a world *before* blogging, never mind after :-p
(No idea if some of the very personal stuff I posted anonymously to Usenet is archived anywhere, but since it's not in my name I'd never be able to find it anyway.)