So here I am at Hofstra, and I am blogging. Writing online makes me feel ...

I honestly hate the idea of blogging. I don't have a myspace account, or a facebook account. Blogging, to me, is no different than those networking sites. There is no need to constantly be checking up on what everyone is doing, or for them to be checking up on me. It's creepy. People become addicted to looking at friends' "statuses." We have phones, email, texting (which I also am not a huge fan of, but everyone else does it, so I feel like I have to), instant messaging, why do we need this too? Granted, my position may be partly caused by a slight paranoia of the wackos out there. It's just too easy to trust people you don't really know (and, yes, I know facebook has a privacy setting). Maybe I'm wrong about blogging, because I've never had one or read one before this class, but it just doesn't appeal to me. I’d rather not deal with the upkeep.

I forget who said this (and the exact words are lost to me), but it is a wonderful quote:

“The more elaborate the means of communication, the less we all actually communicate.”

This is so true—we (myself included) have become so used to not having to deal with people face-to-face. I hate calling people I don’t know, or answering the phone when I don’t know who is calling. I don’t know if this is because I’m shy (I doubt that—I’m kind of loud around those I know well) or if it’s truly because of the technology I have grown up with.

I digress. Blogging seems annoying…even the word is annoying. I don’t see why it’s necessary to share EVERYTHING as some bloggers/myspacers/facebookers do. I can understand that they are ways to “talk” to people when nothing else works. I might actually be forced to create a facebook account because, like texting, everyone does it. Maybe that’ll change my mind. But for now, I’m not a fan of blogging.