And with this, I take a hiatus from social media
I spent a good deal of time recently, telling myself that I need to become more active with social media outlets like Twitter. There was a time when I spent a great deal of my time making sure the world knew just what I was doing or thinking. I've met some great people, both online and in real life, and created some good relationships. I felt guilty that I wasn't involved enough with my own social presence online as of late. Thinking about needing to put more effort in to social outlets online, actually helped me to realize that I need to stop.
There was a point in life where I first uttered the words, "that would make an awesome tweet". At that moment I planned ahead, to do something, that would in result be a good tweet, blog, posterous, etc. I've had that in the back of my head ever since that moment and it's probably not a good thing. Due to this I have altered what has happened in a moment, with the idea of deploying the situation in to social media of some sort. Doing so has without question changed the way things, even if the most minute, have come to take place. This doesn't mean that I've done bad things, but rather altered the real life course of events that would not have unwinded as such if I had not been tweet-minded. Now that I live in an amazing place, full of spontaneity, and bleeding from every orrifice with what can only be explained as life, I realize that I need a break. Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, etc is not keeping me too busy. I don't need that kind of a break. I need a break from caring what others, that I barely know, think about me online so that I can enjoy real life as it unfolds. I'll be back, we all know that. Be it less, or even more, I will be around. I'll still reply to direct messages and the like, but just not actively participate. This could last months, or just a week, I really don't know. But I do know that I need to just shut it out and remove myself for a while.
