Taz wanted to say "Hi"

Freedom.

Yes, I think that's what I have gained by quitting Facebook and Twitter.  Freedom.  I have followers and I followed others.  The problem is that a lot of those followers are  family and many are coworkers.  Then top that off with some folks I share interests with like model railroading and games.  and sprinkle in the random strangers and I felt a bit constrained as far as what I wanted to post. 

Things my family may find funny are too personal for strangers or coworkers.  Darker humor intended for strangers would offend family.  I also don't like bringing my personal life to work as well as my attempt to separate work from home life.  Too much pressure!

So here I sit.  Blogging on Blogger.  Or should I say venting.  But that's just it.  Here I feel I can say what I want.  There's no pressure to acquire or keep followers.  No worry about offending my boss.  Yes I know they could always stumble across this,  but at least they are less likely to share it with all of my relatives and old high school friends.

I guess the other thing is, I have no desire to view "You may like this" posts that some bot found similar to something I typed.  Or the political ads disguised as pseudo-news articles.  Or the continuous  advertisements for the  lawnmower I searched for six months ago.  Yeah, fuck social media.

You are welcome to read this blog... or not.  The choice is yours.  Either way, have a nice day.

Wow! Dormant for almost six years!

That's terrible!  How could someone do this?  Wasting resources, ignoring opportunity... how dare me! 

Truth is, I'm not much of a public speaker.  I generally feel folks don't really care what I think about things.  I mean, everyone has opinions about things like games, books, politics.  (Well actually, screw politics.  Those people are idiots.)  But anyhow, I've always found that I'm sort of average.  Kind of boring and for the most part, not that interesting.   Also posting content is time consuming. 

Plus, I forgot about this blog.  Like everyone else, I got caught up in Facebook and Twitter. (And yes, even Google+ for a bit.)  But sharing someone elses share of someone elses friend's share becomes quite... impersonal.  I found that everyone I knew was sharing the same thing over and over so fresh content basically didn't exist.   And yes, the political idiots found their way there too. 

So now I have quit the "social media" shouting match and have decided to simply share information.   If someone finds it interesting, funny or even informative, then great.  Otherwise who cares.  I'm not getting paid to write and they aren't paying to read.  Mostly I doubt that in a world of "share me, like me, look at me" anyone will notice this little blog anyhow.  Someone told me recently that blogs are dead so here I am, a scruffy old mage on a dead medium.  I can live with that.