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The other day, while perusing the inevitable, generally pointless New Year's resolution sales (gym equipment, workout clothes, dietary supplements, protein bars, etc.), I got to thinking about resolutions and whether to bother with one this year. Aside from a couple years ago when I decided to finally lose all my extra weight (although that didn't happen until March and wasn't so much a resolution as a long-overdue change in lifestyle), I typically don't bother with resolutions. However, while reading through some of the year-end posts by some of my favorite Christmas music bloggers, I started toying with the idea of coming up with a blog of my own.
Then, last night, my wife and I finally found the free time to allow us to watch "T2 Trainspotting" (which I'll probably discuss in a later post), which I bought for her for her birthday back in April. Mark's new "choose life" monologue got me thinking a bit more about social media and blogging. My thoughts on the matter congealed even further this morning. Social media, as I see it, has a life cycle or evolution pattern of its own. When people first join Facebook, Twitter or whatever, they generally do so with the intention of keeping in touch and communicating with friends. Eventually they'll go through several various phases (I might bother putting my ideas down more concretely later) but eventually they get to the final phase in which they use social media entirely for self-gratification. Sure, they might look at other people's posts, hit like and occasionally respond, but their primary purpose for logging in is to vent their own ideas and revel in the likely false idea that anyone else (or, in their minds, everyone else) is actually paying attention. In other words, you post on Facebook for your own sake, not for the sake of anyone else.
I decided that if I was going to create a blog I'd follow that idea through to the logical conclusion and simply create the most interesting blog on the planet. Whether you consider it to be the most interesting blog on the planet is utterly and completely irrelevant. The whole point is that I consider it the most interesting. It will be all about my interests, thoughts, concerns, etc., so from my perspective it will absolutely live up to its name. Then again, like most New Year's resolutions, I could lost interest in a few weeks, in which case you'll be able to pick this up at a bargain in the discount section of your local mega-mart.
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